PHIPPSBURG — Maine master naturalist Jason Chandler will lead “Reading (and Feeding from) the Land” on Saturday at 9 a.m. at Center Pond Preserve. The walk, sponsored by Phippsburg Land Trust, highlights edible plants and teaches participants how to “read” the landscape, interpreting the signs of the human and natural history, a news release explains. […]

BRUNSWICK — CHANS Home Health Care will offer two free community-based blood pressure clinics on Friday. Clinics will be held at the following times and locations: — Pejepscot Terrace, 36 Pejepscot Terrace, Brunswick; 9:30 to 10 a.m. — Bath Soup Kitchen, 851 Washington Ave., Bath; 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Blood pressure screenings are also available […]

BRUNSWICK — The Brunswick Police Benefit Association will host the fourth running of “Hot Pursuit,” a 5K road race on Saturday, Sept. 8. All of the proceeds from this fundraiser will be used to support both local law enforcement college scholarship programs as well as the Maine Chapter of Concerns of Police Survivors. The Maine […]

BATH — Courses in University of Maine’s first-instate educational technology coordinator graduate certificate program will be available online this fall. People can participate in the new program through University College at Bath/Brunswick, which offers high-speed Internet access and a range of support services designed to help students succeed, according to a news release. The release […]

PORTLAND (AP) — FairPoint Communications’ yearslong decline in revenues should reverse itself in 2013, the company’s chief executive officer said Monday. The growth among business customers should begin exceeding the loss of residential landline customers later this year, Paul Sunu said during an interview in Portland. As a result, revenues in 2013 are expected to […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Mercy Health System of Maine has entered into a letter of intent to sell Mercy Hospital and its other facilities to a Boston-based hospital chain under a plan in which the hospital would keep its Catholic affiliation, Mercy officials announced Monday. The nonbinding letter of intent is the first step toward reaching […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage has nominated two fresh faces — including his chief legal counsel — to serve as district court judges. He’s also nominating nine sitting judges for new terms. Daniel Billings previously served as a partner at Marden, Dubord, Bernier, and Stevens in Waterville before becoming the governor’s chief legal adviser. […]

ORONO (AP) — The University of Maine, which uses the Maine Stein Song as its school song, has cracked the top 20 for party schools for the first time. The annual ranking by The Princeton Review put West Virginia University on top as the nation’s No. 1 party school. Down on the list, at No. […]