AUGUSTA — Freeport High School is among 23 schools across Maine to be awarded $800 from the Harvard Pilgrim Foundation’s Healthy School Food Champions program. The schools were awarded the grant — which will be used to improve the nutritional quality of food served at the schools, support the collaborative learning in the Let’s Go! […]

WOOLWICH — The town will conduct a special town meeting Wednesday, July 24, to see if residents want to borrow up to $300,000 to build an addition to the Town Office. The meeting at the Nequasset Meetinghouse will begin at 6 p.m.

BATH — American Legion Post 21 is offering a reward — currently $1,000 — for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individuals who destroyed the American Legion granite bench in Library Park in June. Last month, one or more people broke a bench memorializing six young men who died serving their country […]

Interstate 295 in Portland reopened this morning after utility lines across the roadway forced it to be shut down in both directions overnight. State police say the lines fell after an excavator struck a utility pole at a construction site near the highway at about 1 a.m. today. No one was hurt. The road reopened […]

HARPSWELL Harpswell Coastal Academy has a signed one-year, $20,000 lease agreement with the town for the use of the former West Harpswell School. The new public charter school opens its doors in September. Formerly owned by School Administrative District 75, West Harpswell School closed in June 2011 because of dropping enrollment and declining resources. The […]

BRUNSWICK Bagpipers and drummers from New York will be in town this weekend, playing a “bookend” to Maine Public Safety Pipe and Drum Corps’s trip to Long Island in February. The Maine pipe band traveled to New York earlier this spring, bearing $2,000 it raised to benefit families who lost homes and belongings to Hurricane […]

Swango Farm in Woolwich and Bessie’s Farm Goods in Freeport are among local farms participating in the statewide Open Farm Day on Sunday. Open Farm Day is an annual adventure for families, as farmers open their gates and give people the opportunity to learn about agriculture. Farms will put on demonstrations and displays and have […]

WOOLWICH Two men were taken to hospitals after the car they were passengers in rolled three times and crashed on U.S. Route 1 this morning. Chief Deputy Brett Strout said a 2005 Saab driven by Henry Wagner, 19, was traveling north on Route 1 “operating in a dangerous manner, weaving in and out of traffic.” […]

WEST BATH — Cases of local interest closed in May at Sagadahoc County courts: Gertrude L. Douglass, 62, of Litchfield, guilty of possession of marijuana, up to 1 / ounce, $350 fine; a charge of unlawful possession of a scheduled drug was dismissed, for an incident in Brunswick on Feb. 19. Tara N. Dry, 32, […]