BOWDOINHAM — The driver of a tractor-trailer truck that veered off Interstate 295 and crashed into trees Wednesday morning wasn’t injured, but it took recovery workers most of the day to pull the truck from the wooded median area and haul away the damaged vehicle. The crash was reported at about 8:20 a.m. State Trooper Niles […]

BRUNSWICK — Former Maine Street store owner Frederick K. Horch announced Wednesday that he intends to join the race for House District 66 under the Green Independent Party banner. Before a March 15 deadline, David Frans filed as the candidate for that party’s slot on the November ballot. In a letter to The Times Record, Horch […]

AUGUSTA — State Rep. John Martin is sponsoring a bill that would make it easier for the Canadianbased Irving family to mine for valuable minerals on a Maine mountain at the same time he is negotiating a $250,000 bankruptcy debt with an Irving-family oil business. Martin, a Democrat, is the co-owner of Bald Eagle convenience […]

AUGUSTA — The Legislature’s Education Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved an amended bill that seeks to set up a uniform system for evaluating Maine’s public school teachers. The bill, LD 1858, is part of a comprehensive education package introduced in February by Gov. Paul LePage and Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen. LD 1858 creates an “effectiveness rating” […]

BRUNSWICK — In addition to unanimously approving exceptions to a town-wide ban on outdoor wood boilers and approving the town’s application for a road repair grant that Town Manager Gary Brown said would allow the town to offset the school department’s $3 million budget gap by $350,000, the Town Council conducted the following business Monday: […]

FREEPORT — The Port Teen Center is ramping up for a fundraiser to auction off 100 custompainted wood canoe paddles donated by L.L. Bean. In the “Sitting Pretty” fundraiser’s fourth year, the art project that has taken to other donated canvasses in the past will hold its auction from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sunday at […]