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Three car crashes killed four people in central Maine yesterday.

Sunday has been a bad day on central Maine roads as four people died in three separate crashes, in Union, Benton and Sidney.

According to the Town of Benton facebook page, the Richards Road will be closed Monday through Wednesday (September 14th-16th) due to culvert replacement.

When I saw Kimberly Cyrway's Facebook post Saturday asking for prayers for her dad, who had a heart attack on his way back from a D.A.R.E. gathering in Louisiana, I was stunned.

We were down to the last few keys. I was oblivious. Mac was worried. All in a fun day's work. In the end, one of the final keys fit the lock that opened up the make-shift chain fence and Kristen Kronholm of Gardiner had won herself a new 18 foot, above-ground pool from Levesque Pools in Benton.

By now you’ve probably heard about what happened at Benton Elementary School. The question is how you explain the news to your kids if your child goes to the school, or even if they don’t.

I'll admit, my opinion may be a little skewed. I live in a rural setting where neighbors target shoot with firearms as late as 9 or 10 at night. It doesn't bother me. Neither do Fireworks. But maybe I'm a rarity.

When we decided to get a pool seven or eight years ago, we went with Levesque Pools in Benton. The Moose had a working relationship with them and I really liked Tom Spencer, the only one I knew there at the time. We knew we needed an above ground because our property is all ledge. We knew we wanted something around 24 feet in diameter. We DIDN'T know we had to choose the STYLE of pool we wanted. I

The Alewife is a fish that is gold to fishermen and the town of Benton, alike. This weekend is the third Alewife festival, beginning on Friday evening with a public supper at the Benton Grange Hall. Listen to Antoine Morin talk about the festival on the Moose Morning Show!

A big tip o' the Moose antlers to Lindsay Ball! She's from Benton and is a recent grad from the University of Maine at Farmington. Lindsay was born visually impaired and is preparing to head to Sochi as a member of the U.S. Paralympic Alpine Skiing Team.

A big tip o' the Moose antlers to Lindsay Ball! She's from Benton and is a recent grad from the University of Maine at Farmington. Lindsay was born visually impaired and is preparing to head to Sochi as a member of the U.S. Paralympic Alpine Skiing Team.

Just a click and a vote can help a local school make $25, 000 in funding courtesy of U.S. Cellular, who's giving away $500, 000 in all to schools across the United States. There are a bunch of Maine schools in the running...

Drugs with a street value of $11,000 were seized Friday(Nov. 15) afternoon after State Police pulled over a car on Interstate 95 near mile marker 134 in Benton. Seized from the Massachusetts couple was 53 grams of heroin, 10 grams of crack and a small quantity of marijuana...