TOPSHAM — Topsham’s town meeting starts at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Mt. Ararat High School. Voters will take up a 23- article warrant including the proposed $8,542,720 municipal budget for 2014- 15, which represents a 0.86 percent increase from the current budget. The budget would increase the current tax rate of $16.65 per $1,000 of […]

NORTH WATERBORO (AP) — Game wardens on Monday began lowering the level of a lake and forest rangers used a helicopter as the search intensified for a 15-year-old boy missing for five days. Jaden Dremsa was last seen Thursday afternoon when he walked away from his home, and the search has been growing every day […]

BRUNSWICK Police were alerted to a single-vehicle crash on Sunday, May 11, at 8:09 p.m. at Industrial Parkway. Police said Matthew Bruckshaw, 28, of Pittsfield, Mass., was traveling eastbound in a 2005 Honda passenger vehicle, according to Brunswick Deputy Police Chief Marc Hagan, when Bruckshaw’s vehicle struck a tree. The vehicle’s airbag did deploy, however, […]

BATH A group of workers just off duty were gathered outside Bath Iron Works chatting early Friday morning when a Jeep slammed into the back of a car one of them was leaning on. The crash was reported at 624 Washington St. on Friday at 12:20 a.m. Bath Police Lt. Robert Savary said there were […]

BATH An 82-year-old man was issued a summons after children in the Maple Street neighborhood reported seeing the elderly man expose himself. Bath Police Lt. Robert Savary said shortly before 5 p.m. on May 3, police received a complaint that two children under the age of 12 had seen Stuart Woodland, who lives nearby on […]