HAMPDEN, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- After a three hour discussion, Hampden Town Council members have decided to table the request to repeal the 2010 Comprehensive Plan.

The Community Room in the Municipal Building in Hampden was filled with people who wanted to repeal a plan that they think violates their individual property rights.  Council members say the plan is a way for the town to take inventory on land resources.  Rich Armstrong, a lifelong resident of Hampden, is the one who requested the repeal.  He wants the citizens and council members to listen to each other better than they have in the past.

"Planning is a great thing, but we all have to be involved in it," Armstrong said. "If if affects any one of us we've got to shut that TV off, get to this meeting, and give you our input so we can make it right for our vision of the future as well as yours."

ORONO — The University of Maine and University of Southern Maine are receiving a $493,577 grant from the Maine Technology Institute to advance the research, development and commercialization of private sector manufacturing projects in need of the universities’ technological assistance.

The three-year grant from MTI’s Cluster Initiative Program will enable precision manufacturers in Maine to advance, expand and increase hiring as they move forward with new project development.

Bangor, MAINE (NEWS CENTER) - A bank in Bangor was held up Saturday afternoon.

The Bangor savings bank branch on Broadway was robbed a shortly after two o'clock. The bank was closed after the robbery and all employees were sent home.

Police say a male described as 25-35 years old, wearing a two-tone grey and black spring jacket and black ball cap, handed a note to the teller which demanded money. An undisclosed amount of money was given to the suspect. He exited the bank and left in what witnesses describe as a red Jeep Liberty.