BATH The City Council approved — with little discussion — a special amusement license Wednesday for the recently-opened Front Street Public House.  Members of the public made no comments. Chris Johnston, the owner, told the council that the music would be low-key — “mostly acoustic, solo and dual, mostly one or two people.” The council […]

Somewhere in the area of Cook’s Corner, Good Samaritans are doing nice things in the spirit of the season. On the afternoon of Chrismas Eve, Brunswick High School senior Emily Casler was on her way along the Androscoggin River and through the Bowdoin Pines, to grandma’s house she was going. With her younger brother and […]

A Bath man faces a felony charge of elevated aggravated assault for allegedly stabbing another man several times during a dispute early Monday at Maritime Apartments. The victim’s injuries are not lifethreatening, police said Monday. Charles M. Gates, 31, of Bath, stands accused of elevated aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon in the alleged incident. […]

Downeast Energy, a business that started as Brunswick Coal more than 100 years ago, announced in April it would be sold to Oklahoma based energy conglomerate NGL Energy Partners LP. The sale was deemed the No. 7 most important 2012 news story in the Mid-coast region, in an informal poll of readers and editors. With […]

The Times Record reserves this space to correct errors appearing in our news columns. We ask readers who are aware of factual errors to telephone Managing Editor Bob Mentzinger at 504-8209. Because of a source error, an incorrect address was given in a story on Page A2 of the Dec. 24 edition for a Brunswick […]

Obstetric crews at Mid Coast Hospital welcomed the region’s first baby of 2013 when Cheyenne Marie Smith was born at 12:03 p.m. Tuesday. Parents Sondra and Nicholas Smith of Bowdoin didn’t plan it this way. “She was our surprise baby,” Sondra Smith said late Tuesday between feedings, naps and checking messages from her husband, who […]

Sagadahoc County Arrests Norma Jean Greenleaf, 44, of 145 New Meadows Road, Apt. A-11, West Bath, Dec. 25, 12:07 a.m., charged with probation violation, on New Meadows Road in West Bath. Nicholas Marston, 22, of 1172 Weeks Mills Road, Augusta, Dec. 24, 7:56 a.m., charged with operating under the influence, operating after suspension and a […]

BRUNSWICK — Police arrested a man an officer saw punch another man in the face early Saturday morning on Maine Street. Deputy Chief Marc Hagan said police were called at 12:40 a.m. to a disturbance on the sidewalk near Aki Japanese Cuisine. As an officer pulled up, he saw a man punch another man in […]

BRUNSWICK — A fender bender Friday night on Pleasant Street led to an operatingunder the-influence arrest. Police came upon a twovehicle crash Friday at 10:41 p.m. at Pleasant and Stanwood streets. Deputy Chief Marc Hagan said a 2005 Volkswagen driven by Ronald Fitzgerald, 51, of Harpswell was stopped on Pleasant Street at the intersection when […]

BRUNSWICK — Brunswick police arrested a teen on a charge of domestic violence assault Thursday night, stemming from an incident police said occurred several hours earlier. Deputy Chief Marc Hagan said Luis Rivera-Gonzales, 18, of 1 Perryman Drive, was arrested at home at 5:45 p.m. Thursday and charged with domestic violence assault. Early Thursday morning […]