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]

BRUNSWICK — A Brunswick pharmacy has agreed to pay a $10,000 fine for faulty record-keeping practices involving controlled substances which came to light during an investigation into a former employee’s alleged theft of prescription drugs. Medical Center Pharmacy’s attorney, Peter DeTroy of the Portland law firm Norman, Hanson and DeTroy, said Thursday the fine against the […]

WOOLWICH — The Sagadahoc County Sheriff ’s Department is investigating the theft of two allterrain vehicles from a garage some time Thursday morning. The culprits apparently entered a closed garage at 51 PJ’s Way between 9:45 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Thursday and stole two 2007 Grizzly 550 4-wheelers — one blue and one green, Deputy Calvin […]