HARPSWELL The application for a new charter school in Harpswell goes to the Maine Charter School Commission for review Tuesday. Harpswell Coastal Academy plans to open in September as a grade 6-12 school, but with an initial enrollment of 40 to 80 students in grades 6 and 9. It is one of five charter school […]
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Assault rifle plants given tax breaks
Taxpayers across the country are subsidizing the manufacturers of assault rifles used in multiple mass killings, including the massacre of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., last month. A Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting examination of tax records shows five companies that make semiautomatic rifles have received more […]
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Kestrel opts for Wis. manufacturing
BRUNSWICK Kestrel Aircraft Co. announced in January it planned to manufacture its turboprop plane in Wisconsin, potentially creating up to 600 jobs there — not at Brunswick Landing. The announcement was deemed the No. 5 most important 2012 news story in the Mid-coast region, in an informal poll of readers and editors. Wisconsin officials said […]
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War of words in Wiscasset withdrawal
WISCASSET A Regional School Unit 12 attorney has stated that Wiscasset can’t withdraw from the school unit until the 2013- 14 calendar year. The town committee seeking to negotiate that withdrawal isn’t buying it. “We’re still hoping for a June vote, at the latest,” Jefferson Slack, a member of the RSU Withdrawal Committee, said Thursday […]
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Local ‘Occupy’ group sets MLK Day event
BRUNSWICK — Occupy Maine Bath-Brunswick will gather in front of the Bank of America branch on Maine Street at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, to celebrate Martin Luther King’s birthday, organizers said in a news release.
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Charter school seeks applications
Baxter Academy for Technology & Science in Portland has begun accepting applications for potential students to enroll at the school. The school is the third public charter school to be approved by the Maine Charter Schools Commission. The school is accepting applications for students entering the ninth and 10th grades in the fall of 2013. […]
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Foreclosed by bank? Sign on to settlement
Eligible Maine borrowers who lost their homes due to foreclosure between Jan. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2011 must file a National Mortgage Settlement Claim form by Jan. 18 in order to receive a cash payment from a $1.9 million fund set aside for this purpose. Attorney General William J. Schneider said notice letters and […]
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Familiar field to fill Topsham selectman’s seat
TOPSHAM Voters headed to the polls Jan. 15 will have three candidates to choose from to serve less than a year on the Board of Selectmen. William Thompson, James Trusiani and Jean Wolkens are running to fill the remaining of the term of current Selectman Andrew Mason. Mason, elected Nov. 6 to represent House District […]
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Police: Drunken man attacks dog
TOPSHAM Topsham police charged a man with cruelty to animals after he allegedly threw a dog across a room the day after Christmas. Topsham police Lt. Fred Dunn said the incident, reported Dec. 26 at 7:25 p.m., prompted police to issue a summons for cruelty to animals and possession of drug paraphernalia to Johnathan Aday, […]
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Woolwich burglary nets $30,000 in goods
WOOLWICH The Sagadahoc County Sheriff ’s Department is investigating a residential burglary reported last week during which they believe more than $30,000 in jewelry, coins and antiques were taken from a home in the area of Mountain Road. The burglary was reported the morning of Dec. 29. Sheriff ’s deputies believe someone forced open a […]