GEORGETOWN Undeterred by the rain whipping over the water at Todd’s Landing in Georgetown on a recent morning, seventh grade students at Bath Middle School pulled on their waders and tossed baited green crab traps into Robinhood Cove. The trapping effort is part of a two-year-long study carried out by students and teachers at BMS […]

BRUNSWICK Could you step on a train in Brunswick or Freeport and step off in New York City? Or Montreal? Or Chicago? TrainRiders Northeast, a self-described “passenger rail advocacy organization responsible for the arrival of the Downeaster Amtrak service between Portland and Boston,” believes the idea isn’t so far-fetched. TrainRiders have renewed their call in […]

BRUNSWICK During the runup to the 2014 election, The Times Record’s editorial board interviewed two of the three candidates for governor, Democrat Mike Michaud and Independent Eliot Cutler. Multiple invitations were extended to Gov. Paul LePage to meet — either at our office or his — and all were declined. Mike Michaud (D) U.S. Rep. […]

BATH The U.S. Navy has awarded Bath Iron Works a $32.5 million contract modification to perform technical and industrial engineering work on the future USS Michael Monsoor, the second Zumwalt-class destroyer, at its Bath shipyard. The modification follows a $24.4 million modification awarded in April for additional detail design and construction of the Navy’s newest […]