BRUNSWICK — Air Force Reservist Davielle Rodgers stood in line at a Portland bus station Saturday, one hand combing the back of her daughter’s head. “This is when it gets the toughest” Rodgers’ mother, Patty Sparks, said. “Especially for the little one.” Moments later, mothers and daughters would say goodbye again. It’s Rodgers’ fourth overseas deployment. […]

HARPSWELL — After keeping the total local contribution paid by the four towns in School Administrative District 75 flat for three years, the district’s Finance Committeeproposesa1percent total contribution increase in the 2012-13 budget. The proposed $ 33,402,454 budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 represents a 2.4 percent overall decrease from the current budget. […]

BRUNSWICK — The Brunswick Housing Authority has joined a coalition of 11 housing authorities nationally to request that U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan cut costly red tape they say make it impossible to keep critical housing programs running. “When the federal government provides us 75 cents for every dollar it takes to administer […]

AUGUSTA — Maine will not be able to accomplish the state-mandated goals of building 2,000 megawatts of wind power on land by 2015. That’s one conclusion of two studies issued this week by the governor’s energy office and an independent group of researchers. The studies also urged reconsideration of the landmark 2008 law that allowed wind […]

GEORGETOWN — In the wake of 26-year-old Georgetown Central School music teacher Elizabeth Polletto’s death in a car crash Wednesday morning, Principal Matt Carlson said Thursday that the school is “taking it day by day.” After learning of Polletto’s death Wednesday, Carlson said grief counselors from Alternative Organizational Structure 98 and Regional School Unit 1 came […]

BRUNSWICK — At 1 p.m. Sunday, volunteers at Harriet Beecher Stowe School will assemble raised beds and fill them with soil in preparation for spring planting. Organized by parent Sarah Wolpow, a Cumberland County Master Gardener, the effort aims to add Stowe to a growing list of schools nationally that maintain school gardens. “The garden […]

BATH — “Young Green Thumbs,” a free children’s activity series, will take place each Wednesday afternoon in April at Patten Free Library. The program is sponsored by Local Farms-Local Food, a collaboration between the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) and the Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust to celebrate local food and agriculture in the Bath-Brunswick region. Becky Kolak, […]

Summonses Daniel F. Bly, 25, of 19 Murch Road, March 26, 9:34 a.m., charged with sale and use of drug paraphernalia, at Main and Elm streets. Timothy A. Briggs, 27, of 15 High St., Auburn, March 26, 4:28 a.m., charged with using a counterfeit vehicle inspection sticker. [email protected]