WOOLWICH It is easy to see that 11-year-old Mardi Farmer is clever — poised in a large wicker chair, the Woolwich native speaks with forethought and precision. What is less immediately obvious is that this young dynamo is also a new business owner. And she’s a girl with a plan. “My business is called Nail […]

BRUNSWICK The town may be spending $150,000 for cost overruns on the McLellan Building at 85 Union St. that houses the new Town Hall. The Town Council is expected to schedule a public hearing tonight for June 2 on using money from the town’s unassigned fund balance “for the purpose of the designing, renovating, equipping […]

BATH A developer’s proposal to tear down an existing hotel and build a new one on Richardson Street will be up for site plan review and a public hearing Tuesday night regarding proposed contract zoning for the project. The Planning Board, which meets at 6 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, is scheduled to conduct a […]

WOOLWICH — Nicholas Buscanera, 21, of Westport Island, and Stephanie Little, 28, of Edgecomb, were both charged Friday by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency with the Class A crime of Aggravated Trafficking Heroin. The charge is aggravated as a result of the quantity of heroin seized. A several months-long investigation of heroin distribution in the […]

PORTLAND Maine’s black bears have emerged from hibernation and are pawing through garbage cans, birdfeeders and pet dishes, igniting a debate between hunters and conservationists about an upcoming referendum about the state’s bear hunt. A November ballot question could prohibit bear hunting with bait, dogs or traps. Maine is the only state that allows all […]