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- Starving pit bulls seized, owner charged with animal cruelty
BELFAST : A man faces an animal cruelty charge this week after two of his three pit bulls were found emaciated and residing in an unheated camper off Swan Lake Avenue.
- Driver in Monroe fatal indicted for manslaughter
MONROE : The driver of a pickup truck that crashed Sept. 22, in Monroe, killing one passenger and seriously injuring another, has been indicted by a Waldo County grand jury.
- November: Dyers, DOT settle Sail-Inn dispute; election brings changes
The Dyer family owned and operated the Sail-Inn Restaurant in Prospect for more than 50 years before the state Department of Transportation seized the business by eminent domain in 2003.
- December: Belfast woman kills husband; police seek dog slayer
9, inside a High Street residence. Police continue to study the events that led to the shooting death of James Cummings, 29, of Belfast.
- Starved & Neglected Pitt Bulls Rescued On Swan Lake Avenue
BELFAST : Belfast Animal Control Officer, Steve Bogan, Has Rescued Two Of Three Malnurished And Neglected Pitt Bulls Being Housed In An Uninhabited And Unheated Trailor On Swan Lake Ave In Belfast Last Week.
- Cold, wind make chimney fire challenging
BELFAST : Firefighters battled a chimney fire for about 45 minutes Jan. 1, 2009, at a home on Congress Street.
- July: Cycle crash, Stockton stabbing, VillageSoup fire
A couple from Tennessee each lost a leg and suffered other injuries July 18, when the motorcycle on which they were traveling was hit by a pickup truck on Route 1 in Northport.
- Man indicted in fatal vehicle accident:
"lmao mattecamp!!!!" Members of Maine credit unions "LOL Darwinism at it's finest.
- Belfast Police Department blotter
BELFAST : Law enforcement officials with the Belfast Police Department responded to the following incidents and accidents, issued the following summonses and made the following arrests: Dec.
- Belfast Police will dispose of prescription drugs, but not needles
BELFAST : Since the Belfast Police Department began taking part in the Safe Medicine Disposal for ME Program, it has been asked to also handle another form of medical waste a ' hypodermic needles.
- Belfast beats in the new year
Buy Photo BELFAST, Maine - At midnight, more than 200 people paraded down the Main Street hill to a bonfire at the boat landing in 40 mph winds and zero degree temperatures to welcome 2009.
- Eggs Bendict, Banana Walnut Pancakes or a Kielbasa & Cheddar Scramble for Breakfast at the Inn
BELFAST : Penobscot Bay Inn is open for breakfast & lunch Wednesday through Sunday 8 to 2. Come and experience a wide variety of more than 40 deliciously prepared breakfast and lunch selections or for a great ...
- Belfast teen feeds Liberian dreams
BELFAST : Thursday, Dec. 18, community members gathered at Belfast Area High School to support the Liberian Education Fund.
- Two owners of Route 3 big-box tract visit Belfast
Two owners of Route 3 big-box tract visit Belfast BELFAST, Maine - The owners of property zoned to accommodate a big-box retailer met with city officials recently and left committed to developing the site.
- New Year's In Belfast and Bangor
Bangor will have its traditional downtown countdown. The highlight for many -- the ball drop off of Paddy Murphy's at midnight.
- Catching up with Me & Martha
BELFAST : Former Belfast regulars Me & Martha will return from Virginiaa s Shenandoah Valley to perform Appalachian music during New Year's by the Bay.
- Belfast man summoned in connection with sheep killings
BELFAST : Police summoned a Belfast man on two counts of allowing a dog to roam at large and one count of failure to license his dogs after the animals allegedly killed three sheep and attacked a cow on the ...
- Belfast staging its 12th New Year's fest
"Every single post on this thread bemoans this tax as anything from fleecing poor people to taking " Feds to require registration for "My prayers are with this little baby, a gift from God.
- Two dogs kill sheep, bite cow; Belfast man charged in incident
"fanof48 I'll join your club and we need to teach the idiot drivers to give elderly drivers some " I-95 crash jams traffic around "Hang that S>O>B in the town square !!! His only prosecutor should be the 60 ...
Belfast Classifieds
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City DescriptionBelfast is a city in Waldo County, Maine, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 6,381. Located at the mouth of the Passagassawakeag River on Penobscot Bay, Belfast is the county seat of Waldo County. The seaport has a wealth of antique architecture in several historic districts, and remains popular with tourists.
The area was once territory of the Penobscot tribe of Abenaki Indians, which each summer visited the seashore to hunt for fish, shellfish and seafowl. In 1630, it became part of the Muscongus Patent, which granted rights for English trading posts with the Indians, especially for the lucrative fur trade. About 1720, General Samuel Waldo of Boston bought the Muscongus Patent, which had evolved into outright ownership of the land, and was thereafter known as the Waldo Patent.
Waldo died in 1759, and his heirs would sell the plantation of Passagassawakeag (named after its river) to 35 Scots-Irish proprietors from Londonderry, New Hampshire. Renamed Belfast after Belfast, Northern Ireland, it was first settled in 1770, and incorporated as a town in 1773. The village was mostly abandoned during the Revolution while British forces occupied Bagaduce ... Read MoreCity Contained By:Timezones:- North American Eastern Time Zone
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