WOOLWICH Plodding through Montsweag Bay mud last Friday, a group of 7th grade students from Woolwich Central School planted flower pots laced with clam seed in intertidal plots. Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine in Machias and director of research at the Downeast Institute, organized the study at the […]

BATH Residents from Regional School Unit 1 member towns will gather tonight for a district wide meeting, to vote on the proposed $28.3 million school budget. If approved, the budget will then go to a June 10 budget validation referendum by written ballot at municipal polling locations in the RSU 1 communities of Arrowsic, Bath, […]

More than 30 riders participated in this year’s Ride of Silence in Brunswick and Topsham the evening of May 21. The annual event was held in memory of Randall Vye and Brendan Batson, who were killed in separate incidents while riding bikes in May 2001. Vye was killed on Bath Road in Brunswick, and Batson, […]

BRUNSWICK During Bowdoin College’s 209th commencement ceremony Saturday, bachelor of arts degrees were awarded to students from 37 states, the District of Columbia, and 15 countries and territories. Bowdoin College President Barry Mills presided over the ceremony on the steps of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, where he spoke about leadership. “In my view, […]

HARPSWELL (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration says a small airplane had to make an emergency landing in Harpswell. Spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says two people were aboard the single-engine Van’s Aircraft RV-4 when the pilot reported a fuel problem Sunday evening. The plane landed on a grass airstrip in Harpswell with no injuries. Bergen says […]

TOPSHAM Sen. Angus King announced Friday that the Senate Armed Services Committee approved the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a provision he authored to improve the eligibility criteria of HUBZones located at former U.S. military installations closed through the Base Closure and Realignment process. The announcement may come as welcome news to the Midcoast […]

TOPSHAM The driver and passenger of a motorcycle that crashed on Route 24 late Monday afternoon were taken to a Lewiston hospital with what police say were minor injuries. The crash was reported at 5:05 p.m. in the area of 899 Middlesex Road (Route 24) which is near the Bowdoinham town line. Topsham Police Sgt. […]