RICHMOND The driver of a tractor trailer truck walked away from the vehicle after it veered off the road and tipped over along Interstate 295 Saturday night. The crash occurred along I-295 southbound in Richmond just prior to the Bowdoinham town line, shortly after 8 p.m. The 53-foot refrigerated trailer was full of 36-pound boxes […]

TOPSHAM — The League of Women Voters of the Brunswick Area and the Topsham Public Library have canceled a forum for candidates for the Topsham Board of Selectmen. The forum was scheduled to take place tonight, Monday, Oct. 27 at Topsham’s municipal building. There are three candidates running for two available seats on the Board […]

LISBON — The Lisbon School Department will host a community informational meeting tonight and provide an update on the Self-Funding Energy Reduction Project — and the upcoming Nov. 4 referendum to approve financing to complete this work. The hour-long meeting starts at 6 p.m. at Lisbon Community School, located at 33 Mill St. Contact Superintendent […]

BRUNSWICK — The Rotary Club of Brunswick is hosting a “Pack a Backpack” fund raiser from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, at the Brunswick Hotel and Tavern, located at 4 Noble St. The event is to raise donations to help fill backpacks of local food-insecure students through the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. The evening […]

WILTON In Maine, a hunter can shoot a bear while it’s nosedeep in a barrel of doughnuts, after it’s been chased up a tree by dogs, or when it’s snared in a cable trap — but that could change in just a few days. Hunters and animal rights advocates around the country are watching the […]

LEWISTON (AP) — The National Science Foundation has awarded $337,228 to a Bates College oceanographer and a geologist to continue climate research based on the shells of clams. Biology professor William Ambrose and geology professor Michael Retelle say they’ll analyze the natural record archived in clamshells over a millennium to plot changes in sea temperature. […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A draft of a legislation that would add several new species to Maine’s threatened and endangered animals list will likely go to state lawmakers in December. State environmental officials might add the little brown bat and northern long-eared bat to the endangered list after white nose syndrome hurt populations. The eastern small-footed […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The University of Southern Maine and a Portland education group will receive $1.9 million from the federal government for arts education in Portland schools. The university announced last week that Youth in Action: Side x Side and the school will receive the grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The Arts in […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Maine will get nearly $1 million from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to gather data on violent deaths in the state. Attorney General Janet Mills says the money will allow the state to gather data using the National Violent Death Reporting System over the next five years. The money […]