BRUNSWICK ‚ When Brunswick High School teacher McKell Barnes hung a T-shirt on her classroom wall that read “gay? fine by me,” she suspected it might elicit some reactions. What Barnes didn’t expect when students arrived last Monday morning was for dozens of them to say they wanted a T-shirt like that of their own. So Barnes […]

WOOLWICH — Woolwich selectmen on Monday told the Regional School Union 1 board of directors that the 9.92 percent increase in their town’s share of the district’s budget results from faulty calculations that they hope the board — and Maine Revenue Services — will help them correct The proposed $26 million RSU 1 budget for fiscal […]

BOWDOINHAM — A former Bowdoinham resident wants to sell fireworks in town. Jason Douglas informed the Board of Selectmen of his plan on Tuesday. Douglas attended Tuesday night’s Board of Selectmen meeting to make his plans public and to gauge the board’s position on his plan to open a retail consumer fireworks store in town, according […]

WASHINGTON — The survival of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul rests with a Supreme Court seemingly split over ideology and, more particularly, in the hands of two Republican-appointed justices. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy put tough questions to administration lawyers defending the health care law during three days of arguments that suggested […]

BRUNSWICK — A 41-year-old Brunswick man pleaded guilty in Portland Superior Court last week to six counts of gross sexual assault against a child younger than 13 years old. Lester H. Ambrose Jr., 41, of Brunswick, changed his initial plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty before Judge Roland Cole to the six counts, as well […]

Arrests Alexandra Elizabeth Barnes, 20, of 25 Arrowhead Drive, Brunswick, March 12, 7:40 p.m., charged with violating a condition of release, in Falmouth. Carey Love Newman, 36, of 997 Middle St., Bath, March 12, 2:24 p.m., charged with violating a condition of release, on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth. [email protected]