BRUNSWICK With potential expansion of the Village Review Zone looming, a Portland consulting firm has been hired to help the town decide which, if any, additional properties within the zone should be protected. The firm — Turk, Tracey and Larry — mapped the town’s “Top 100 Historic Structures” list about 10 years ago. Now, it […]

WISCASSET The state has called a public meeting tonight at Wiscasset Middle School so residents can weigh in — perhaps one last time — on the withdrawal agreement between the town and Regional School Unit 12. Residents will have the opportunity to express concerns on the agreement tentatively scheduled for a townwide vote on Nov. […]

BATH Will Neilson, a lifelong Republican and co-owner of Solo Bistro, the tony Front Street eatery and wine bar, will seek the Democratic nomination to represent Senate District 19. Neilson joins a burgeoning field of Democrats seeking to replace Senate Majority Leader Seth Goodall, DRichmond, including Eloise Vitelli of Arrowsic, and David Sinclair, a Bath […]

SOMERVILLE Regional School Unit 12 directors will vote Thursday on a $26.4 million 2013-14 budget that’s $116,000 less than the one defeated by residents of the eight towns June 28. Thursday night’s meeting at Palermo Consolidated School begins at 6:30 p.m. Should the full board agree on the figures arrived at last Tuesday by the […]

BRUNSWICK Police retrieved two Brunswick teenagers Sunday from an island in the rainswollen Androscoggin River after the pair jumped from the Topsham side of the Swinging Bridge only to realize the river was running too hard to return to shore. The pair, not identified by authorities, scrambled onto an island downstream of the bridge where […]

HARPSWELL A hiker lost on the cliff trail behind the town offices is home safely after an evening hike turned scary Sunday. Theresa Desjardins, 45, of Brunswick, went for a hike with her 15-year-old son at the popular preserve off Mountain Road on Great Island. The two became separated. The teenager came out of the […]

FREEPORT — Police on Monday recovered a dirt bike that had been reported stolen April 21. Police Chief Gerald Schofield said today that a Bragdon Road resident reported seeing the Yamaha dirt bike on his property at 9:24 a.m. Monday. An officer responded, and learned that the machine fit the description of a dirt bike […]

WOOLWICH — A public hearing regarding the proposed addition to the Town Office is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Nequaset Meeting House. The 1,800-square-foot addition would cost an estimated $300,000. The Selectboard has discussed a loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture at an interest rate of 3.75 percent, or a loan from […]

BATH — A celebration of life has been scheduled to remember a Bath native found dead in the Androscoggin River near Auburn in April. Dan Doherty was an athlete at Morse High School and had many friends in Lewiston in his recent years. He was reported missing after his car was recovered from a bridge […]