BATH — Police have arrested two Portland men on weapons charges after an incident Wednesday night on Bluff Road. Fadhil Alghazi, 51, and Ali K. Anthony, 41, both face charges of criminal threatening with a dangerous  weapon after a couple reported at 9:06 p.m. that they were threatened with knives at their home. As police responded, […]

BRUNSWICK Officials quickly contained a parasite outbreak at a Brunswick homeless shelter, according to municipal health inspectors and officials from the Maine Center for Disease Control. Thirteen people at Tedford Housing’s adult facility on Cumberland Street were diagnosed with scabies in mid-March. Jeff Emerson, Brunswick’s deputy fire chief and municipal health inspector, investigated the report […]

TOPSHAM The Planning Board approved plans Tuesday for a new Agren Appliance and Television store on Mallett Drive. The approved site plan application calls for a two-story, 14,000-square-foot retail building at 78 Mallett Drive, opposite Rite-Aid. The store sells electronics, appliances, furniture and mattresses. When it opens — perhaps by the end of the year […]

BATH A Bath Middle School student told police Tuesday night she refused a ride from a man who twice asked directions from her while she walked home from track practice. Bath Police Chief Michael Field said today the 11-year-old girl was walking near High and York streets when a man in a small black sedan […]

BRUNSWICK Bread for the World isn’t looking to combat hunger by collecting money. Its members are doing so by contacting members of Congress, asking them to change policy. And Bread for the World isn’t trying to alleviate hunger and poverty. It’s trying to eliminate it. The goal might be daunting, but this Christian collective with […]

RICHMOND Officials will restrict student movement at Richmond’s combined middle and high school building after a bomb scare caused a lockdown and evacuation Tuesday. Richmond Police Chief Scott MacMaster said school officials called police at around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday to report the words “bomb threat” had been found scribbled on a wall in the girls’ […]

FREEPORT It could be several more months before the town’s proposed train whistle “quiet zones” are implemented, according to Town Manager Peter Joseph. The problem is one of process, not of local traffic calculations. Freeport, like Brunswick, attempted several months ago to impose no-horn zones at several rail crossings. But Pan Am Railways, which owns […]