HARPSWELL Selectmen who met in executive session June 14 to discuss acquiring public access to Cedar Beach are to meet again in executive session Friday. Advocates of restoring access to Cedar Beach — revoked in 2011 — attended the June 13 Board of Selectmen meeting to urge a resolution before the end of the month. […]

AUGUSTA The Maine Legislature finished its session by failing to override Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of a bill to expand Medicaid to about 70,000 people. But lawmakers could be back in Augusta next week if LePage vetoes the state budget. The Democratic-led House voted 95-52, falling just short of the two-thirds majority needed to […]

BRUNSWICK D espite being for sale, Pennell’s clothing store remains open — and will for at least a few more months, according to coowner David Girardin. After purchasing the building and business at 52 Maine St. in 1972, Girardin and his brother-in-law, John Simonson, put both up for sale 15 months ago. There’s been lots […]

BRUNSWICK The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority can borrow up to $500,000 to offer as incentives to potential or existing tenants. Auburn-based Mechanics Savings Bank announced its financial partnership with MRRA on Wednesday. The bank will provide a flexible line of credit allowing MRRA “to leverage its own funds to lend to prospective and current tenants […]

BRUNSWICK Local matching money is needed now, even though state funds to extend the bike and walking path along the Androscoggin River through Bath won’t be available until 2016. Brunswick, West Bath and Bath need to come up with $40,000 — for preliminary engineering and architecture work — to demonstrate readiness to the Maine Department […]

TOPSHAM Police arrested a Topsham man who was allegedly under the influence of drugs when he drove across a lawn Wednesday morning and hit a parked dump truck on Middlesex Road. After an investigation of the crash reported at 8:11 a.m., Topsham Police Chief Christopher Lewis said police arrested Robert Stilphen, 47, of Topsham, and […]

AUGUSTA “I feel like a citizen who is seen to be of less value than my neighbors,” Karen Bessey Pease said Wednesday after Senate Democrats sidelined an effort to give her and other residents of the state’s most rural areas a say in whether wind towers are built in their communities. “We just asked to […]

AUGUSTA A bill to require background checks for private firearm sales passed Wednesday by one vote in the Senate. The bill was introduced by Rep. Mark Dion, D-Portland, former Cumberland County sheriff, to close a loophole in state law that requires background checks for retail gun sales but not for private sales or transfers. The […]