BATHWith balmy summer evenings in the offing — hopefully — the venerable Bath Municipal Band begins its summer concert series at 7 p.m. Tuesday, at the scenic gazebo in Library Park. The Bath Municipal Band, under the direction of Kathy Downing, will play its music — mostly swing — every Tuesday night at various locations. The […]

PORT CLYDE Linda Bean’s path to becoming one of the major players in the state’s lobster industry came late in life. “I was 67 at the time and going through a divorce,” Bean said about her decision to try a new career in the lobster industry. “This gave me a new lease on life.” Bean, […]

BRUNSWICK The “Taste of Brunswick,” Brunswick Downtown Association’s signature event, has been postponed because too few local restaurants signed up. Originally scheduled for Saturday, June 22, the event is likely to be held instead sometime in early fall, according to Patti Spencer-Yost, BDA’s marketing coordinator. “We didn’t have as much participation from restaurants as usual,” […]

BATH Police are looking for a man they say robbed the Walgreens Pharmacy on State Road on Friday, making off with prescription medications. Police are also seeking a woman they say may have knowledge of the incident. Bath said the suspect went directly to the pharmacy, threatened employees and demanded medications. He then fled the […]

PORTLAND Asked by the Freeport High School class of 2013 to leave them with “one last lesson,” Rich Robinson offered song, audience interaction and a heartfelt lesson about integrity. During his keynote address at commencement exercises Saturday at Merrill Auditorium, Robinson, an American studies teacher, obliged with pearls of wisdom from “The Wizard of Oz” […]

BATH A tractor-trailer that was too big to fit under the railroad overpass on Old Brunswick Road became lodged under the bridge Friday after the driver misjudged the bridge height, Bath police said. Bath police Cpl. Andrew Booth said a tractor-trailer truck driven east by Taras Korpalo, 58, of Ontario, Canada, struck the bridge at […]

BOWDOIN A Topsham woman injured in a single-vehicle car crash Friday on U.S. Route 201 sustained internal injuries, but those injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, police said. Maine State Police Trooper James Leonard said the crash occurred at around 8:11 a.m. Friday on Route 201 in Bowdoin just beyond the Route 138 intersection. […]