FREEPORT For kids not into team sports — and there are many — bicycling offers a good opportunity for fitness and fun. For adults who might want to play on some kind of team, but one that doesn’t require high skill levels, how about kickball? Attention, both groups: Regional School Unit 5 Recreation & Community […]

BRUNSWICK After being discovered in the back of a book in Duxbury, Mass., the original Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to Col. Joshua Chamberlain has taken a long and circuitous route back to Brunswick. In July, shortly before the town’s annual Chamberlain Days celebration, the Pejepscot Historical Society received a small package from a donor […]

PORTLAND While all of Maine’s congressional delegation remains undecided about military strikes on Syria, none of the four lawmakers is eager for the U.S. military to get involved in another conflict in the Middle East. Calls from constituents are heavily against military strikes, they say. “I do think we’re at a growing risk of getting […]

BATH Bath Iron Works competitor Huntington Ingalls Industries announced it would close the Gulfport, Miss., facility that builds composite deckhouses for two DDG-1000 stealth destroyers being built at Bath Iron Works. The announcement comes less than a month after the U.S. Navy awarded Bath Iron Works a $212 million contract to build the deckhouse and […]

BOWDOINHAM Bowdoinham is crafting a comprehensive plan — and it wants residents’ input about how to make it happen. In planning its vision for the year 2023, the Bowdoinham Comprehensive Planning Committee is asking the public to weigh in on future landuse strategies at a meeting, 6:30 p.m. today at the Town Hall on School […]

BATH United Way of Mid Coast Maine — which funds 37 local service agencies that serve people in Brunswick, Harpswell and throughout Sagadahoc and Lincoln counties — kicks off its annual fundraising campaign today. The campaign is an integral part of United Way of Mid Coast Maine’s mission “to improve lives by mobilizing the caring […]