BRUNSWICK Before the Brunswick Sewer District proposes increasing its rates by 40 percent, the district should look for Topsham to pay its fair share, according to some members of the Brunswick Town Council. According to a presentation Monday to the council by Brunswick Sewer District General Manager Leonard Blanchette, the rate increase will support the […]

WEST BATH Voters breezed through Tuesday night’s annual Town Meeting in West Bath, approving a $4.39 million budget with all budget lines passing unamended. Approximately 50 residents gathered at the West Bath School, and selectman David Bourget was elected as moderator. Of the town’s $4,396,979 budget, the municipal appropriation is $1.03 million, 23 percent of […]

BATH The city council will hear what the public has to say about the proposed $15.2 million city budget for 2014-15 during a hearing scheduled to start at 6 p.m. tonight in the City Hall auditorium. That $15,252,737 budget represents a 1.4 percent, or $253,579, tax increase. Combined with proposed increases in county and school […]

BRUNSWICK The number of those in the Mid-coast unsure of their next meal is rising, but local agencies are working to ensure that those in need a have a little more piece of mind. Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program, in cooperation with Good Shepherd Food Bank, will host a mobile food pantry from 5-7 p.m. […]

BRUNSWICK — Oasis Free Clinics was the recent recipient of a $3,000 donation from Norway Savings Bank. With reductions to state health care funding, approximately 40,000 low-income single adults have been left without a public assistance health care option. That’s where Oasis Free Clinics comes in, helping provide primary care services for low-income and uninsured […]

LISBON As part of the Lisbon Downtown Plan update, a public walking tour to explore the downtown area is scheduled for Thursday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The tour will start downstairs in the Lisbon Public Library and continue down Main Street to Route 196, visiting businesses along the way and informally discussing topics such […]

BATH Bath’s Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS) and the Bath Police Department will again host the annual Bath Safety Day & Bike Rodeo on Saturday, June 7. The rodeo is 10 a.m. until noon at the Bath Parks & Recreation Department, located at 4 Sheridan Road in the parking lot behind St. Mary’s Church on […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A Stonington lobsterman illegally harvested hundreds of undersized and protected lobsters in what the Maine Marine Patrol on Tuesday called the most egregious such case in more than 25 years. The marine patrol said Theodore Gray possessed 269 undersized lobsters and 123 known breeding lobsters. The illegal haul was “one of the […]

WHITEFIELD (AP) — A Whitefield man charged with stealing several batteries from a car dealership made police work overtime to capture him. Lincoln County sheriff ’s deputies went to 36-year-old Jeffrey Luce’s home on Tuesday to question him after the batteries were located at a Jefferson redemption center. The owner said he purchased the batteries […]