WEST BATH — The Over the Hill ATV Riders warn offroad vehicle operators that they should avoid posted trails during mud season. The club posted trails in Bath and West Bath. “These postings are part of an ongoing agreement with landowners, and are just one way for the users to show their appreciation to the […]

RICHMOND — Marcia Buker School will hold kindergarten registration on June 1 for children who will be 5 years old by Oct. 15, 2012. To schedule an appointment, call 737-4748. Students currently attending Marcia Buker’s preschool program need not call for an appointment. Preschool screening and registration will take place June 4, 5 and 6. To […]

FREEPORT — Workers at the Reebok outlet avoided catastrophe Friday, noticing the scent of a small electrical fire in one wall of the building before it got out of hand. “They were very lucky,” Freeport Deputy Fire Chief Paul Conley said today. “ If that had gone on and they didn’t get a whiff of something […]

Arrest Amanda Libby, 25, of Gray, March 5, 2:30 p.m., charged with violation of conditions of release, on Washington Street. Summonses Noreen Wyman, 24, of 7B Windjammer Way, March 7, charged with theft, at Shaw’s. Male juvenile, 12, of Bath, March 7, charged with criminal mischief, at Waterfront Park. Male juvenile, 13, of West Bath, […]

HARPSWELL — The Harpswell Community Nursery School will host a free, public screening of the documentary “ Mother Nature’s Child” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Elijah Kellogg Church, 917 Harpswell Neck Road. “‘Mother Nature’s Child’ explores nature’s powerful role in children’s health and development, and notes the lessening of children’s connection with nature and […]

PORTLAND — Heavy trucks are being temporarily banned from thousands of miles of secondary roads across northern New England with the early arrival of spring. The mild late-winter weather has prompted officials to restrict heavy traffic on secondary roads two, three and even four weeks earlier than usual in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, where it’s […]

OTISFIELD ( AP) — Officials say a 65-year-old man has been hospitalized with chest and leg injuries after his single-engine plane made a crash landing onto an icecovered lake in southern Maine. Maine State Police said 65- year- old James Schaff, of Gray, crashed his floatplane shortly after noon Saturday on Pleasant Lake in Otisfield, […]

LEWSITON ( AP) — An analysis shows that most small Maine hospitals’ chief executives earn $230,000 to $330,000, and some got perks such as car allowances. The analysis by the Sun Journal of Lewiston also shows that one small hospital spent $ 80,000 on lobbying, nearly twice as much as the large Eastern Maine Healthcare […]