BRUNSWICK Brunswick School Board members said Wednesday they want more information before voting to expand the junior high school program to include the entire fifth grade. Members want more detailed information on costs, including transportation, as well as future student population projections, and a clearer idea as to where programs such as art and physical […]

BRUNSWICK Brunswick Police say one of two brothers who crashed their motorcycles while driving on Harpswell Road Wednesday afternoon remains in a Portland hospital this morning with head injuries. Police and Brunswick Fire and Rescue responded shortly before 2 p.m. to a reported motorcycle crash near the Town Commons on Harpswell Road, also known as […]

FREEPORT On Friday morning, Freeport residents can expect to see a corps of women armed with power tools in the vicinity of the Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland’s Hummingbird Lane subdivision. A group of approximately 40 volunteers will be participating in the event to raise the walls of a duplex in one of the […]

WOOLWICH Woolwich voters support maintaining graves of veterans, but not the town funding such an effort. Voters at the annual Town Meeting Wednesday night eliminated a new $6,660 budget line for the maintenance of veterans’ graves that was created after the passage of state legislation requiring towns to maintain ancient burial grounds and veterans’ graves […]

BRUNSWICK The cancellation of two weekday trains this week due to track repairs is not affecting ridership in Brunswick and Freeport, although most Downeaster trains are experiencing delays. Most delays along the entire route are under 30 minutes, according to Patricia Quinn, executive director of Northern New England Passenger Authority, which manages passenger service between […]

HARPSWELL A charter school in its first year of operation has drawn criticism from the state because it failed to administer statewide exams last fall. Harpswell Coastal Academy is not in compliance with its contract, Bob Kautz, executive director of the Maine Charter School Commission, said Wednesday. The tests are a state requirement and their […]

PORTLAND A University of Maineled effort to build an offshore wind pilot project was dealt a significant blow Wednesday when it failed to a win a competition for a $47 million federal grant, expected to be a key source of funding. The U.S. Department of Energy’s decision to pass over the Maine Aqua Ventus project […]