TOPSHAM School Administrative District 75 officials expressed disappointment Thursday after once again learning that the district remains just out of the running for state funding to either renovate or replace Mt. Ararat High School. The Maine Department of Education announced Wednesday that the State Board of Education approved Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen’s proposal to give […]

BRUNSWICK The Cumberland County District Attorney dropped gross sexual assault charges against two Brunswick men accused by a local teenager of the crimes in woods near Brunswick High School in August 2010. Darrel Wilson, now 21, and Kemon Harmon, now 20, both of Brunswick, were arrested after a Brunswick teenager reported on Aug. 30, 2010, […]

BRUNSWICK Officials from the town of Brunswick and the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority have begun negotiating details of tax increment financing deals that would shelter new valuation at Brunswick Landing from county taxes and the valuation formula for state aid to education. While state economic development officials told town staff they would conditionally approve such […]

BRUNSWICK The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority board of directors will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Brunswick Station. Steve Levesque, executive director of MRRA, is scheduled to report on a number of issues, including property conveyances. MRRA expects to receive 216 acres of additional airport property through a public benefit conveyance — in addition to […]

Gov. Paul LePage is proposing legislation to close a loophole in ethics laws that has allowed high-level state officials not to report millions in state payments to organizations run by themselves or their spouses. The governor’s legal counsel said the bill was prompted by a Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting story last week that […]

BATH The Sagadahoc County Sheriff ’s Department charged a Bath man with more than a dozen counts of sexual abuse of a minor, following investigation of alleged offenses occurring over the course of several months in 2011. Andrew T. Mank, 21, of Bath was summonsed Tuesday and charged with 15 counts of sexual abuse of […]

BRUNSWICK James Marc-Aurel will be the featured speaker at Tuesday’s meeting of the Bath/ Brunswick Prostate Cancer Support Group. The meeting is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. in the conference room adjacent to the cafeteria at Mid Coast Hospital. Admission is free and all are welcome. Marc-Aurel will give a presentation titled “Lymphedema: The […]

TOPSHAM — A Topsham Board of Selectmen workshop originally scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday was postponed due to inclement weather. The workshop has been rescheduled to Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 6 p.m. in the municipal building at 100 Main St.

BRUNSWICK — On Thursday,  former master commander chief of Brunswick Naval Air Station, Dan Nicholson, was presented with the Joshua L. Chamberlain Award by the Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber of Commerce. The award has been given yearly since 1976 to a person who has promoted “the best possible military community relationship within the Mid-coast area,” […]