TOPSHAM Experimenting with a naturally processed Kenyan coffee, Bob Garver measured and weighed coffee and water — to the gram — as he prepared a cup of coffee recently at his coffee roasting facility in Brunswick. The small kitchen area in the Water Street building is where Wicked Joe Coffee Roasting Co. staff do all […]

BATH The County Teacher of the Year award for Sagadahoc County has been awarded to a teacher at Regional School Unit 1’s Morse High School in Bath. Eric Varney, who teaches a variety of science classes to grades 9 to 12, was one of 16 teachers in Maine to receive the award. More than 350 […]

BRUNSWICK Student activists are continuing their call for Bowdoin College to divest from fossil fuel companies, and will bring their case to the college’s board of trustees in October. In April, about 100 members of Bowdoin Climate Action gave to Bowdoin College President Barry Mills more than 1,000 signatures collected over two years calling for […]

BRUNSWICK The school board will vote on Wednesday whether to eliminate one half-time position at the high school and to make one full-time teaching position half-time. The elimination and cut are due in part to declining enrollment at the high school. There were 846 students who entered Brunswick High School in October 2013. The school […]

RICHMOND Following a “bizarre” interaction last week with a man claiming to be a military police member, Richmond police are warning the public to be wary of any interaction they may have with the individual. Richmond Police Chief Scott MacMaster said police were called to the park at the end of Kimball Street near Alexander […]

RICHMOND About an hour after a Brunswick man fled the scene of a reported altercation with a female, Richmond police caught and arrested him. The physical altercation was reported at about 3 a.m. May 6 in the Millbrook Village parking lot at 381 Front St., Richmond Police Chief Scott MacMaster said. While enroute, police learned […]

Richmond police Arrests Kurt Yenco, 22, of Bowdoinham, April 19, 4:49 p.m.., charged with warrant for failure to pay fine, at Main Street and Brunswick Road. Todd Sousa, 31, of Richmond, April 18, 9:57 p.m., charged with warrant for failure to pay fine, on Main Street. Candice Johnson, 19, of Richmond, April 18, 4 p.m., […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine has begun blocking welfare benefit cards from being used in automated teller machines at certain locations, including liquor stores, pubs and strip clubs, Gov. Paul LePage said Monday. The Department of Health and Human Services prevented the use of the cards at 44 ATMs and anticipates that more than 200 locations […]