TOPSHAM The Maine Green Independent Party nominated a Topsham social worker to seek the recently vacated Senate District 19 seat. Daniel Stromgren, 40, won an 8-4 vote by secret ballot Wednesday night and will appear on the Aug. 27 ballot facing one of three Democrats and a Republican. He defeated Alice Knapp, who served on […]

BRUNSWICK Police arrested two men Tuesday and charged them with a series of burglaries at town recreational facilities during the past two weeks. Adam Paul Consolini, 31, and Nicholas Dylan Berry, 19, both of 28 Oak St., Apt. 3, in Brunswick, face numerous counts of burglary and theft. Exactly how many breakins they are alleged […]

BRUNSWICK Although Bowdoin College will retain use of the third floor of Brunswick’s eventual new town hall for 10 years, the McLellan name will go elsewhere. The McLellan Building at 85 Union St. will become “the new town hall” next year when Brunswick municipal officials move in. Currently, Bowdoin uses it as a center for […]

TOPSHAM A proposed senior housing project at the Elm Street site of a former nursing home gained preliminary subdivision approval Tuesday. Seacoast Management Company wants to buy and tear down the former Amenity Manor nursing home at 29 Elm St., and replaceit with a 2 / – story, 11,000-square-foot building with 32 to 36 apartments […]

TOPSHAM Selectmen will meet tonight to consider a neighborhood revalization plan for Elm and Green streets, new crosswalks and changes to the 2013-14 budget approved by voters in May to account for a loss of anticipated state revenue. A $209,919 reduction in state revenue sharing has prompted proposals to not spend $65,585 from the assessing […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Northern Maine, which suffered a prolonged economic setback with the closing of Loring Air Force Base, is being considered for a ballistic missile defense “interceptor” site for the East Coast. The director of the Missile Defense Agency confirmed Wednesday that a site in northern Maine is under consideration in response to a […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A Senate subcommittee has approved a bill that expressly prohibits funding any study looking at the feasibility or cost of imposing a border crossing fee on people entering the U.S. by land from Canada or Mexico, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins said. The Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee on Tuesday approved the department’s […]

WATERVILLE (AP) — A Waterville police sergeant has been disciplined by the department following a complaint from a homeless man who said the officer mistreated him. Brian Charette said in his complaint to police that Sgt. Brian Gardiner called him a “mental retard,” used profanity, threatened to use force against him, and sprayed saliva in […]

SCARBOROUGH (AP) — The owner of an unleashed dog that killed a piping plover chick on a Scarborough beach has come forward and is cooperating with the investigation. The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said a witness told a Maine Audubon volunteer that the dog owner was warned and did nothing to stop the […]