WOOLWICH — A Woolwich man who crashed his pickup truck into a tree on Murphy’s Corner Road near his home Thursday allegedly left the roadway after falling asleep, according to the Sagadahoc County Sheriff ’s Department. The crash was reported at 3:20 p.m. Chief Deputy Brett Strout said Stephen Hammond, 70, of 321 Murphy’s Corner Road, […]

Summonses Shane Bean, 30, of 195 Baker Road, Freeport, April 2, 7:14 p.m., charged with operating an unregistered motor vehicle more than 150 days, on Old Bath Road. Female juvenile, 15, of Brunswick, April 1, 8:37 p.m., charged with illegal possession of liquor by a minor, on Mill Street. Wayne Merrill, 29, of 333 Lisbon […]

BRUNSWICK — Curtis Memorial Library’s new noontime Tech Meet-Up starts Monday. Sessions will be held Mondays. Each program will start with an introduction and demonstration, and end with sharing about how various technological tools are used. Monday’s demonstration will cover some online tools for readers — for “cataloging” a personal library, for keeping track of […]

BRUNSWICK — Nate Gray, a fisheries restoration biologist for the Maine Department of Marine Resources, will give a free lecture titled “Tails of the Kennebec and Sebasticook” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St. “River herring, generally considered to include alewives, blueback herring and sometimes American shad are probably the most […]

DURHAM — Residents will gather at the Durham Community School at 9 a.m. Saturday for the annual town meeting. Selectmen propose a $2,600,155 municipal budget, which would trigger a 1.48 percent increase of $37,969 over the 2011 budget. Included in that proposed budget is $25,000 voters will be asked to raise and appropriate in Article 30 […]

BATH — “Misplaced smoking materials” ignited in the third story of a Front Street building Thursday afternoon, trapping residents of some apartments until Bath firefighters could snuff the flames and evacuate the four-story wooden structure. When the Bath engines responded at about 1 p.m., the fire in the third-story hallway and west wall area of 108 […]

Arrests Jamielyn Morrison, 32, of 290 Penny Road, Belgrade, April 1, 3:39 p.m., charged with failure to pay a fine, in Freeport. Jacob Gary Crone, 21, of 10 Marvin Way, April 1, 1:21 a.m., charged with operating under the influence, at Durham and Pownal roads. Donald Scott Huer, 32, of 1 Ocean Ave., Old Orchard […]

BRUNSWICK — More than three dozen students and parents gathered Sunday at Harriet Beecher Stowe to construct new raised bed gardens for the school. “The weather held, as parents cut wood and drilled holes to construct the 10 raised beds, one with access for the wheelchair-bound,” a release from organizers states. Funded by donations from […]

BRUNSWICK — A report from Local Farms-Local Food, a collaboration between the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) and the Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust, is now available. The report summarizes a discussion of more than 60 people, including farmers, food distributors, representatives from local schools, and others about the status of local food in the Bath- Brunswick area. […]