FREEPORT—The Freeport girls’ basketball team is getting close. Very close. To being one of the top contenders in Western Class B. The Falcons hosted perennial power York Thursday night in a game that featured everything from the smallest player on the floor looming large on her birthday, stars living up to billing and plenty of […]
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Bay Bridge wins water award
FREEPORT Bay Bridge Estates of Brunswick recently won The Maine Rural Water Association’s annual Outstanding Small Water System award. The award and recognition was for Bay Bridge’s commitment to compliance with the Federal Environmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking Water Act and the Maine Drinking Water Program’s Safe Drinking Water Rules. Each year, MRWA recognizes various […]
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Victim: Plea deal ‘insulting’
BATH A man who inflicted a “savage” stabbing on his girlfriend after a night of drinking was sentenced Thursday by a Sagadahoc County Superior Court judge to 15 years in jail — all but 6 1/2 years suspended — and six years of probation. The state was recommending 15 years with all but eight years […]
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Final weekend, final push
FREEPORT W ith the final retail push under way, L.L. Bean CEO Chris McCormick is playing Santa’s helper against a backdrop of conveyor belts and beeping front-end loaders as he boxes up slippers and shirts. But there’s little time to reflect on the holiday cheer those gifts will bring because he’s busy concentrating to make […]
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New team leads kitchen
BATH The Bath Soup Kitchen has new co-managers and is serving hungry people three times a week from its home at the First Baptist Church on Washington Street. Now that Becki Parkhurst and Helen Koehling are in place as volunteer managers, the soup kitchen just needs a cook. For now, Parkhurst and Koehling are meeting […]
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Local schools vigilant after Facebook ‘threat’
BRUNSWICK Like other regional schools, local institutions were on a higher alert Wednesday after rumors of threats posted on social networking website Facebook suggested harm would be done to high schools in Cumberland and York counties. Police probed the alleged threats and found nothing. In any event, school officials reacted promptly to the threat in […]
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Police, schools go silent this morning
Members of the law enforcement and education communities across Maine observed a moment of silence this morning at the request of Gov. Paul LePage, in memory of the victims of the Dec. 14 elementary school shooting in Connecticut. LePage said Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy declared today as a day of mourning in his state. Malloy […]
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BIW says lift set a record
BATH Bath Iron Works has lifted a 900-ton deckhouse onto the 610-foot hull of the Zumwalt, the largest destroyer to be built at the Maine shipyard. Officials said Thursday it took four cranes to lift the deckhouse — the heaviest item ever lifted at the shipyard — on Dec. 13 and 14. Afterward, the entire […]
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Giving back a Priority for builder
TOPSHAM Representatives of five local groups stepped out of Priority Business Center and into spitting snow and the holiday season this week with freshly drafted checks in hand. Priority Real Estate Group invited the groups to its Main Street business center Monday to give them donations that together totaled $25,000. Jim Howard, president and CEO, […]