If you’re going to call your film series ‘The Perils of Peroxide,’ it had better include Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 movie ‘Vertigo,’ which is precisely what the River City Cinema Society is showing tonight at sundown in Downtown Bangor’s Pickering Square.

Given the similarities between Maine and Minnesota, it’s a wonder Kevin Kling’s ‘The Ice Fishing Play’ hasn’t become a staple of theater companies in the Pine Tree State.

Blethen Maine Newspapers, owner of the Portland Press Herald, the Maine Sunday Telegram, the Kennebec Journal in Augusta and the Morning Sentinel in Waterville, announced Thursday that the company is negotiating for the sale of its publications to Maine Media Investments LLC, an investment group headed by Bangor native and former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen.

EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine – When Sandra Rhoda opened her mail this week and found a new FairPoint calling card, she wondered just how much using it would cost her.

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BANGOR, Maine – Bangor Housing Authority, which recently asked a Vietnam veteran to remove a U.S. flag from his porch because it violated the subsidized apartment complex’s policies, put up a flagpole Thursday in the man’ s front yard.

There is a quiet but strong movement in Maine, one that mirrors the growing grass-roots demand for local, natural and organic foods.

HERMON, Maine – Two local businesses facing foreclosure are scheduled to be sold at auction this month, but there still is time to save the properties, according to one of the owners.

INDIAN TOWNSHIP, Maine – Capt. Tomah Lewey left such an important mark on Washington County’s landscape that on Thursday a portion of U.S. Route 1 was dedicated to the former surveyor, boat captain and farmer.

BOSTON – The Manny Ramirez era in Boston is over, his homers and headaches shipped far, far away to Los Angeles.

PITTSFIELD, Maine – It’s easy to tell when Bossov Ballet’s summer students are in town: Clusters of rail-thin girls, walking with the trademark turned-out feet and ramrod-straight backs of a ballet dancer, can be seen visiting the local ice cream parlor or just getting some air at the town parks.

FORT KENT, Maine – Municipal officials, with help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have identified more than $681,000 in recovery and repair projects stemming from this spring’s flooding.

BANGOR, Maine – Not only does the University of Maine System serve as the state’s largest educational asset, but it’s also an economic benefit to the region, Chancellor Richard Pattenaude said Thursday.

BANGOR, Maine – Three area men were arrested Wednesday afternoon in connection with the theft of $6,000 worth of electrical wiring from a Bradley contractor earlier in the day or late Tuesday night.

BANGOR, Maine – Biologists said Thursday that continued monitoring and federal laws would help protect Maine’s population of bald eagles if the bird is removed from the state list of endangered and threatened species.

CARMEL, Maine – A family movie marks the start of this year’s annual two-day Carmel Days celebration, which begins tonight and continues Saturday.

BANGOR, Maine – Five vehicles all heading west on Union Street ended up crashing into one another early Thursday evening in what police describe as a double accordion-style incident.