GEORGETOWN There’s no immediate danger, but federal regulators may one day return to Reid State Park to search for more unexploded ordnance beneath Mile Beach. The ordnance is buried in sand and contains the remains of rockets used by Brunswick Naval Air Station flight crews during World War II exercises. In the winter of 1996-97, […]

BATH Maine Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher recalled it was last summer when his phone started ringing. Lobster dealers who sell to Canadian processors wanted him to shut down the fishery because they saw a glut coming. “My answer was, “I can’t do anything about it’,” he said Wednesday. Four weeks and 5 […]

BRUNSWICK The legacy of a 2001 Brunswick High School graduate will live on through a new scholarship created in his name. U.S. Army Capt. David Haas, originally of Brunswick, died July 28, 2012, while on duty in South Korea. He was 29. Haas “loved public service and was planning to become a high school counselor […]

WOOLWICH The town’s Shellfish Conservation Committee is in turmoil as panelists accuse each other of mismanaging the town’s clam beds. The strife — on display at a Selectboard meeting Wednesday — prompted Selectboard Chairman David King to offer to have selectmen “referee” the committee’s next meeting. Shellfish committee Chairman Dan Harrington and member Tim Larochelle […]

BRUNSWICK A Brunswick man discovered his pickup truck missing from his Jordan Avenue driveway Saturday morning. Brunswick police got the call shortly before 8 a.m. Saturday that a man’s 1995 GMC 1500 pickup, which had been left unlocked with the keys in the vehicle, had been stolen overnight from his driveway along Jordan Avenue. As […]

BRUNSWICK Former Town Councilor Jackie Sartoris urged councilors Tuesday to create a citizens’ advisory committee to help safeguard the town’s interests in redevelopment of the former naval air station. “It actually (would have) no authority,” Sartoris said. “However, it’s a group of citizens intended to provide an opportunity for public questions, comments and input. As […]

BATH Police are looking for someone who cut and stole copper piping, wiring and other items from a home under renovation at 1110 High St., causing the basement to flood. Lt. Stanley Cielinski said Tuesday a contractor working at the home reported the burglary to police at 9:02 a.m. Sunday. The homeowners were not there […]

BRUNSWICK Town Council Chairwoman Suzan Wilson and Councilor John Perreault did a testy two-step Tuesday evening as they batted back and forth the issue of responsibility for a broken sewer line at the construction site for a new police station. A sewer line, running to Ray Bernier’s property adjacent to the construction site at Stanwood […]

BRUNSWICK A movement is taking shape to label a section of Maine Street, from Pleasant to Mason streets, as an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. Claudia Knox, chairwoman of the Brunswick Downtown Association’s design committee, and Annie Robinson, architectural historian and agent with local company Morton Real Estate, are spearheading the […]