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Eileen Clark

2014

Snowmobile thief skates on thin ice

A 34-year-old Robbinston man skated on thin ice in more ways than one in the wee hours of January 4. At 2:20 a.m., the Charlotte Fire and Rescue Department was called to an emergency at Round Pond.

2013

Four heroes rescue Charlotte man from burning truck cab

Maynard Vining of Charlotte was a very lucky man on Friday, February 8, when four people came to his aid and saved his life.

2011

Young benefactors’ double birthdays assist food pantry

Caitlyn Lyons and Connor Sherrard shared a mutual 13th birthday on Saturday, December 3, at the Charlotte school. They were both born in Calais on December 4, 1998, and were delivered by the same doctor, who was running back and forth between the two rooms.

2006

Dog attack leaves sheep dead; owners shaken over loss

On Saturday morning, August 5, Paula and Steve Farrar of Charlotte left their house at 8 a.m. to tend some of the animals at their Done Roving Farm and Carding Mill on the Charlotte Road. As Steve Farrar approached the sheep pasture, he saw that a lamb had been killed.

2006

Ice goes out of lake on St. Patrick's Day

Spring has come early this year. The ice started breaking up in Round Pond in Charlotte at the beginning of the week of March 12, and the ice officially went out on St. Patrick's Day, March 17.