TOPSHAM The Planning Board Tuesday got its first look at a proposal by the scrap metal recycling company Grimmel Industries to build a new road and access the property from Route 196 instead of through the Pejepscot Village neighborhood. The current gate through Pejepscot Village Main Street would be locked, only accessed occasionally. Michael Gotto […]

BRUNSWICK — Multitalented author, academic and innovator Susan Conley will be appearing at 7 p. m. tonight at Curtis Memorial Library. Sponsored by Curtis Friends, Susan’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Harvard Review, Ploughshares and various other prestigious publications. She is also the […]

BOWDOIN — The Bowdoin Volunteer Fire Department Women’s Auxiliary will hold a craft sale, bake sale and raffle from 9 a. m. to 2 p. m. on Saturday, Oct. 25 at the Fire Department Garage. The fire station is located on Cornish Drive off of Main Street in Bowdoin, next to the town office. Proceeds […]

AUBURN The ashes of a Maine man that have been scattered all over the world by strangers who connected with his mother on social media are now being launched into space. Using her Facebook page, Auburn resident Hallie Twomey has mailed hundreds of packets of her son C.J.’s ashes to people willing to scatter them […]

BANGOR Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic challenger Shenna Bellows are clashing over issues like universal health care, the best way to fight Ebola and the best way to boost the economy. Collins said during a televised debate Wednesday night that she wants to bring both parties together to get things done, while Bellows said […]

PORTLAND (AP) — About 30 members of the Maine National Guard are home from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan. Thirteen members of the 243rd Engineering Installation Squadron arrived late Tuesday and another 15 arrived shortly before noon Wednesday to waiting family and friends at the Portland International Jetport. During their deployment, the airmen provided communications […]

LEWISTON (AP) — Maine’s state Medical Examiner’s Office is still preparing an autopsy report for a baby found unresponsive in a Lewiston bathtub. The Sun Journal reports the office says results will not be ready on Wednesday. Police say the 11-month-old boy’s father was giving him a bath with a 2-year-old sister on Monday when […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Federal regulators are gathering findings to determine if there will be a commercial season for the Gulf of Maine’s northern shrimp next year. Regulators closed the shrimp season for 2014 for the first time in more than 30 years because shrimp populations dipped to their lowest recorded levels. The Atlantic States Marine […]

MECHANIC FALLS (AP) — Records show a decade of vehicle inspections resulted in 178 citations at a company within the same corporate structure as a farm where a girl died in a hayride accident this month. The Sun Journal reports inspections of Re-Harvest vehicles turned up citations including failure to correct defects, improperly securing loads, […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A Maine man charged with throwing his infant son down a flight of stairs was fired from Riverview Psychiatric Center after authorizing the use of pepper spray on a woman who was restrained for hours with the irritating substance on her skin. The Kennebec Journal reported Wednesday that 39- year-old William Lord […]