WISCASSET Chewonki announced a partnership with Grain Surfboards to launch a new three-and-a-half week “surfboard building expedition.” The co-ed adventure is meant to provide eight 16- to 18-year-olds the chance to build their own wooden surfboards and then embark on a week-long surfing trip to the waters of Nova Scotia. The dates are from July […]

WISCASSET Selectmen voted 5-0 Tuesday to accept amendments to a tax increment financing deal with Mölnlycke Health Care — a move company officials said could help them create up to 30 new permanent full-time jobs. The TIF now goes to a public hearing and vote at a special town meeting — both Jan. 14, 2014. […]

BRUNSWICK Four months after it received widespread criticism for granting a forgivable loan to the spouse of one of its recent board members, Brunswick Development Corporation’s Board of Directors on Wednesday approved a series of amendments to its bylaws, including implementation of a code of ethics and a conflictof interests clause. The amendments, worked out […]

GEORGETOWN Police have identified the body of a woman found dead Tuesday inside a car at the side of Seguinland Road. She is a “young college-aged student who lives in Rhode Island” and is a native of China, Sagadahoc County Sheriff ’s Deputy Brett Strout said Wednesday. The victim was found by a passerby who […]

BRUNSWICK A $25,000 grant awarded by the Brunswick Development Corporation to the town’s Marine Resources Committee Wednesday will pay local technicians to design a way to measure and manage Brunswick’s hardshell clams, called quahogs. The two-part grant includes $15,000 to develop a locally-specific population model, and $10,000 to hire technicians to implement it as soon […]