RICHMOND Friends of Merrymeeting Bay is sponsoring the second and last guided tour of the Fort Richmond archeological site by Maine Historic Preservation Commission archaeologist Leith Smith before the site is closed for bridge construction. The event is 4 p.m. today at the Rt. 197 site. The Maine Department of Transportation is replacing the Richmond-Dresden Bridge over the Kennebec River. […]

TOPSHAM Construction crews will install new transmission structures in the median of Interstate 295 in Topsham, near mile 34, from Monday through Friday, July 26, Central Maine Power Company officials said, This project to enhance system reliability will affect northbound traffic on I-295. The work will require closing the left lane of Interstate 295 northbound, and traffic near […]

WISCASSET In a deepening budget crisis, two key panels are sparring again over how deeply to cut a town budget rejected by voters in June. Budget Committee members blasted the town’s labor union Thursday, barely support funds for the transfer station, and voted unanimously to eliminate all funding for assessment, human resources and planning functions. […]

BRUNSWICK Most of the work already completed at the Maine Army National Guard 133rd Engineering Battalion’s new headquarters is underground, so it doesn’t yet look like much. But Guard officials say that, when it’s done, the ultramodern, $23 million structure will be a sparkling example of efficient design and environmental sustainability. “Right now, the building […]

BRUNSWICK Former district court judge Ralph Tucker is readying his campaign for House District 63, which will be up for grabs when his friend, longtime incumbent state Rep. Charles Priest, is term-limited out of the position in 17 months. Tucker, 66, is almost a year into his retirement from Wiscasset District Court. Having lived and […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second a series of profiles of the candidates for Senate District 19. The Democratic caucus is Monday. The special election is Aug. 27. BATH “I entered the race when I did because of the circumstance of Seth Goodall’s resignation, but I’d actually been thinking about running for some time,” said […]

BATH Bath has taken a step closer to creating a bike route that could link up with a similar path in Brunswick and — perhaps, someday — bring bikers all the way up the Kennebec River to the Capitol in Augusta. But new federal rules requiring local matching contributions has led to uncertainty about the […]

BATH A water main under Washington Street ruptured Thursday, spilling water into the street, disrupting traffic and briefly dropping water pressure for thousands of customers from Woolwich to West Bath. The break happened in the 700 block of Washington St., in front of Bath Iron Works. Traffic was snarled all evening as crews from the […]

State health officials are warning residents of southern Maine to take caution and check on elderly neighbors today. The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for Kennebec, Cumberland, Oxford, Androscoggin and York counties. High temperatures and humidity today will make temperatures feel above 100 degrees in some of these areas. The sweltering conditions follow […]

BRUNSWICK — Mid Coast Hospital screened 169 people in its annual skin cancer screening and said 69 had positive findings. Individuals with positive findings were given instructions on getting proper care. The screening identified potentially life-threatening cancers in 41 percent of participants, 12 percent more than last year, Mid Coast officials said in a news […]