Photo by Jeff Pouland

GOOD DEED: Seth Johnson, 11, of Temple, right, hands a roofing shingle to Chris Phillips of New Sharon, left, while helping put on a new roof for Gladys Mains in Farmington on Saturday. Helping Johnson and Phillips is Roland Venter, 13, of Industry, right, and Seth Collins of New Portland. About 20 volunteers from New Hope Baptist Church in Farmington replaced Mains’ old roof with materials donated from a company that wished to remain anonymous.
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FARMINGTON: Volunteers take day to replace roof
FARMINGTON -- Gladys Mains has friends. She doesn't need Facebook or Twitter or a cell phone to connect.

PUMP up the JAM
HALLOWELL -- It's Sunday night.

Police Log
IN CHINA, Friday at 11:51 p.m., suspicious activity was reported on Lakeview Drive.

Fabric Garden hosts drive to donate pillowcases to charity
MADISON -- The Fabric Garden is participating in the "One Million Pillowcases Challenge," to donate pillowcases to local organizations.

J.P. DEVINE: Think outside the box
NBC NEWS FLASH: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi will soon be tried in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District in New York. Good.

OAKLAND: Sewer project finishes first phase, ready for next
OAKLAND -- The multimillion-dollar project that will hook Oakland into the Waterville sewer system has finished its first phase and another stage of construction is set to begin soon and last through the winter.

Palermo subdivision ready for review
PALERMO -- The Planning Board will begin considering a plan for a 10-lot subdivision on Plummer Road at its next meeting.

PITTSFIELD: Council takes steps to cut expenses
PITTSFIELD -- Time to tighten the belt another notch.

Old building gets new lease on life
SKOWHEGAN -- From the outside, the four-story brick building at 7 Island Avenue still appeared vacant.

At food pantries, recession still very much alive
The numbers keep growing at Stone Soup Food Pantry in Biddeford.

Briefs
TOGUS -- Six hundred doses of seasonal flu vaccines were destroyed Thursday night or Friday morning when the refrigerator the doses were stored in stopped working at the Veterans Affairs Medical and Regional Office Center at Togus

Freedom brings perils along with privileges, Sen. Collins says
WASHINGTON -- An extremist in the United States has the right to hold his or her beliefs, can use the Internet to connect with others and access extremist materials, and can freely travel the world. These and other freedoms are precisely why home-grown terrorism is so difficult to track in the United States, according to U.S. Sen. Susan Collins.

BILL CLEARS KEY HURDLE IN SENATE
WASHINGTON -- Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.

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