Arrests 8/9 at 7:40 a.m. Craig Huber, 54, of Emerald Drive, was arrested by Officer Scott Hendee on Emerald Drive on an outstanding warrant from another agency. 8/10 at 10:13 p.m. Mackenzie Smith, 25, of Shaker Road, Gray, was arrested by Officer Benjamin Burnes on Gray Road on a charge of operating after suspension, and […]

CUMBERLAND — Fire Chief Dan Small, who was suspended without pay for five days for falsifying payroll, said Monday he paid two employees for time they didn’t work as an incentive to provide paramedic coverage at other times. Small was suspended Aug. 9-16, according to a disciplinary letter from Town Manager Bill Shane, which was […]

CUMBERLAND — The town is negotiating with the Cumberland Fairgrounds board about moving the Public Works Department to part of the Fairgrounds’ 197 Blanchard Road property. “We have gotten permission to do some survey work and some wetland delineation on about a 10-acre parcel near the power lines on the Fairgrounds property, which is well […]

CUMBERLAND — The fire chief was suspended without pay for five days for falsifying payroll. Chief Dan Small’s suspension ran from Aug. 9-16, according to Town Manager Bill Shane’s disciplinary letter, which was obtained Thursday, Aug. 17. Small was suspended “as a result of (his) actions related to the deliberate falsification of payroll forms on […]

Arrests 7/29 at 2:47 a.m. Addie Todd, 19, of Grove Street, was arrested by Officer Joseph Burke on Range Way on charges of violating conditions of release and illegal possession of liquor by a minor. 7/31 at 2:42 a.m. Joseph Strattard, 37, of Cider Hill Lane, was arrested by Officer Scott Hendee on Tuttle Road […]

A hard-to-reach brush fire on Mountain Road in Falmouth burned a little less than an acre on Aug. 4. Fire Chief Howard Rice said the fire was stubborn and hard to put out because of the terrain and the amount of dry vegetation that was burning. He said the fire was called in around 4:23 […]

CUMBERLAND — The town is seeking a buyer for the house that used to neighbor the Central Fire Station on Tuttle Road. The 1956 structure, called the Whitman house for original owner Gordon Whitman, was moved earlier this year to the Public Works site on Drowne Road to make room for the fire station expansion. […]

Arrests 7/14 at 2:47 a.m. Erin Greene, 37, of Bonney Hill Road, Otisfield, was arrested by Officer Joseph Burke on Gray Road on an outstanding warrant from another agency. 7/14 at 3:12 a.m. Justin Buker, 38, of Bonney Hill Road, Otisfield, was arrested by Officer Joseph Burke on Gray Road on a charge of operating […]

CUMBERLAND — Councilors on Monday unanimously established the town’s first affordable senior housing district on land it owns near the Town Forest. “This is probably one of the most exciting pieces of legislation we’ve had before you and the Planning Board in many years,” Town Manager Bill Shane told the council. The Senior Housing Overlay […]