BRUNSWICK Brunswick High School students are planning a Valentine’s Dance for the first time since 2009. The dance — slated for Feb. 15 — is the first to be held at the school since objectionable dance floor behavior effectively ended the once-annual event. Back then, it was a problem of mostly suburban kids emulating gyrations […]

TOPSHAM A 31-year-old Brunswick man walked into a police station Tuesday and asked if there was a warrant for his arrest. There was, and he was arrested. Jeremiah Snape, 31, of 8 Pollard Ave., Apt. A, was arrested at 3:04 p.m. Tuesday on a Topsham warrant charging domestic violence assault and criminal restraint. He was […]

FREEPORT Town Councilor Kate Arno intends to resign her seat immediately following the council’s regular meeting Jan. 22. Arno, who is about halfway through her first term representing District 2, accepted a post with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington, D.C., where she will serve as director of television community service grants. Freeport’s charter […]

ALNA — The Alna Store on Route 218 has been burglarized, the Lincoln County Sheriff ’s Office reported Wednesday. According to Lt. Michael Murphy, entry had been made by breaking out the window on the front door some time after the business was closed up, at around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. Several items of merchandise were […]

Bath and Brunswick youths will participate in “walking school bus” events, in which a group of children walk to school accompanied by parent volunteers and local community partners instead of taking a bus or being transported by car. In Brunswick, the event is 8:20 a.m., Friday, Jan. 18, beginning at the Crimmins Field entrance on […]

U.S. Sen. Angus King, IMaine, will hold a “Capitol Coffee with Angus,” 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, in Room 562 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. The breakfast event, which King plans to hold every Wednesday when the Senate is in session, will offer the opportunity for visiting constituents to […]

Former West Bath Town Administrator and former Bath Finance Director David Williams has accepted the post of town administrator in Sherborn, Mass. Williams, who marks three years in Framingham, Mass., next month, said he’s looking forward to taking the reins in the small community. “I was the first administrator in West Bath when I started […]

BRUNSWICK A man injured in an Oak Street apartment fire Friday has been downgraded to serious condition. Gerald Sanford, 53, was reported in satisfactory condition Monday at Maine Medical Center, where he is being treated. Fire crews were called to 23 Oak St. for report of an explosion and arrived to find Sanford outside the […]