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is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,017 at the 2000 census. Newport is situated on Lake Sebasticook.
In 1901 a large fire destroyed the Maine Central Railroad freight depot and two mills, and damaged 20 houses.
In 1990 two boys aged 8 and 9 started a fire which burned half of Newport's historic downtown (three buildings more than a century old).