United Way of Mid Coast Maine on Tuesday kicked off its annual campaign to improve people’s lives in Brunswick and Harpswell and throughout Sagadahoc and Lincoln counties. “Our mission is ‘to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of community,’ and the annual campaign is a time when we’re mobilizing like mad,” said United Way […]

BATH Bath Iron Works is still in the running for a contract to build Coast Guard cutters that would likely be assembled in 2017. According to a statement by U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King on Tuesday, BIW survived the first round of cuts from eight shipyards to five. “The Coast Guard’s Offshore Patrol […]

BRUNSWICK Of 15 applications submitted for the vacant principal’s job at Brunswick High School, search committee members have chosen six candidates to interview. Superintendent Paul Perzanoski said the interviews are scheduled to begin this week. Once interviews are complete, the committee will narrow the field to no more than four semi-finalists who then will spend […]

WISCASSET Cost-conscious voters who defeated budget lines in June were at it again Tuesday, only in larger numbers and with a more definitive result: The defeat of Question 1, which would have provided funding for defeated budget lines, went down by a 331-372 vote. Tuesday’s vote also will result in the layoff of one municipal […]

LISBON After an earlier public hearing on a proposed $1 million bond referendum to buy and tear down Worumbo Mill was rescheduled for a larger venue, the Town Council heard support for the project Tuesday while also being told to “stay out of the real estate business.” More than 100 residents filled Lisbon Community School […]

BOWDOINHAM A Brunswick man escaped serious injury Tuesday afternoon when the car he was driving plowed through a guardrail along Interstate 295 southbound near mile marker 39, not far from the Bowdoinham exit. Bowdoinham, Bowdoin and Richmond fire departments were called to the single-vehicle crash at 12:54 p.m. for a possible car fire after the […]

FREEPORT A 52-year-old Freeport man was arrested Friday and charged with aggravated assault after police say he caused “major internal injuries” during an assault on his girlfriend. Michael Howard of Freeport was arrested at his home at 10:30 a.m. Friday and taken to Cumberland County Jail, Freeport police Detective Gino Bianchini said Tuesday. The alleged […]

It has been just over a year since former University of Southern Maine President Selma Botman got a new job as special assistant to the chancellor on global education. The post was created for Botman two months after she got a vote of no confidence in her role as president from more than half the […]

AUGUSTA Maine faces a bleak future unless it begins to attract young workers, transform its housing system and find new economic opportunities in its aging population, a former state economist told lawmakers, health care officials and business leaders Tuesday. Charlie Colgan, an economist and professor at the University of Southern Maine’s Muskie School of Public […]