BRUNSWICK Fewer shellfish harvesting licenses will be available next year, but town officials have yet to decide how many will be cut, and from which license categories. Marine Resources Committee members are waiting for results of a shellfish survey before they determine how many licenses to trim. Shellfish wardens Dan Devereaux and Paul Plummer, with […]

WISCASSET Town officials remain in wait mode regarding a tax-abatement offer to Mölnlycke Health Care, which plans to expand either its Wiscasset or Brunswick facility. Town Manager Laurie Smith provided the board with an update on the Mölnlycke situation Tuesday night. Selectmen decided last month to grant the company another tax-increment financing deal to cover […]

BRUNSWICK An elderly Brunswick woman was rushed to a Portland hospital with severe burns Wednesday after her clothes apparently caught fire while cooking. Witnesses said Harriet Soulen suffered extensive burns and was taken by ambulance from her home at 14 Beech Drive at approximately 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. The fire was reported at 5:54 p.m., Brunswick […]

TOPSHAM Selectmen hold a public hearing today so voters can weigh a Sept. 25 town meeting warrant containing five economic development proposals. The hearing will start at 7 p.m. at the municipal building, 100 Main St. The special town meeting is Sept. 25. There are five items on the draft warrant: — A proposed tax-increment […]

BRUNSWICK — Town police dispatchers have a new contract, approved by their union representatives and ratified Tuesday by the Town Council. The three-year agreement includes a two-percent cost-ofliving increase in each year. Total cost of the increase is $9,000 per year over the term of the contract, for a total $27,000. There are 10 dispatchers […]

FREEPORT — Valeria Steverlynck will replace Brenda Kielty on the Regional School Unit 5 Board of Directors. The Freeport Town Council chose Steverlynck from among two candidates during its meeting Tuesday night. Town Manager Peter Joseph said Steverlynck should be able to assume her new duties when the RSU 5 board meets on Sept. 11, […]

BRUNSWICK — After being postponed in June due to lack of participation, the “Taste of Brunswick” has been rescheduled for Saturday, Sept. 28. The event, which also features live music and is sponsored by Brunswick Downtown Association, takes place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. It is both a promotion of the town’s wide array […]

AUGUSTA — An upgrade of the information technology backbone of the state’s unemployment system will require significant parts of the system be shut down temporarily the second week in September, state labor officials said. Commissioner of Labor Jeanne Paquette said the system manages benefit payments, “so it is critical that we take every precaution to […]

BRUNSWICK — State Sen. Stan Gerzofsky and state Rep. Charlie Priest will hold public “office hours” 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 7 at the Little Dog Coffee Shop, 87 Maine St.— an opportunity to have an open dialogue with local legislators.

AUGUSTA (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage signed an executive order Wednesday reaffirming Maine schools are locally controlled and that students’ personal information must remain private. The Republican governor’s order comes weeks after opponents to Common Core Standards, adopted by 45 states, announced an attempt to repeal them in Maine in November 2014. Opponents have raised […]