TOPSHAM After receiving a proclamation Tuesday from Topsham, England, the town of Topsham will continue celebration of the 250th anniversary of its first town meeting with several special events this weekend, featuring balloon rides, a barn dance, a 5K and more. The Sestercentennial for Topsham started off with a big bang back on New Year’s […]

A free residential household hazardous waste drop-off collection — cosponsored by the towns of Brunswick, Harpswell, Bowdoin, Georgetown, Topsham and West Bath — will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, at the Brunswick Public Works garage facility, located at 9 Industry Road in Brunswick. The event is by appointment for […]

TOPSHAM Topsham residents voiced concerns Tuesday night to the Planning Board with a developer’s plan to build a 15-lot subdivision at the end of Homeplace, especially a town ordinance requirement that would result in the road connection of Route 24 and Foreside Road through the subdivision. Tom Bethea submitted an application for the 15–lot subdivision […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A Portland-based foundation is giving $750,000 to the Maine Centers for Women, Work and Community to help lowincome residents become financially stable. The John T. Gorman Foundation announced the grants Wednesday at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College. The foundation says the money will be used to help 1,000 low-income residents […]

WARREN (AP) — Officials say a Maine State Prison inmate serving a 20-year sentence for sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl has died. Officials say 65-year-old Ronald Leslie Farrar died Tuesday at Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport. State Police and the state medical examiner’s office are reviewing the death. Farrar had served approximately five years […]

HARRINGTON (AP) — Police say a Milbridge man has died in a head-on crash with a trash hauling truck in Harrington. The Washington County Sheriff ’s Office says 53-yearold Michael Strout was driving his pickup truck on Route 1A on Tuesday morning when he crossed the centerline and collided with the larger vehicle. Strout, who […]

SACO (AP) — Police have arrested two men they allege assaulted and robbed a Saco cab driver. Police were called by a Twin City Taxi dispatcher who told them that one of the company’s drivers had been attacked at about 2 a.m. Tuesday by two men he had driven to a hotel in Saco from […]

NEW SHARON (AP) — An older, partially blind horse has been killed by a car after escaping from its pasture in New Sharon. State police say the horse was struck by a car driven by a 21-year-old Gardiner woman at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. The driver’s view had been blocked by another vehicle. Police tell […]

DRESDEN Several agencies worked together over the last five years to protect a valuable historic site so that now, the final Dresden Falls — or Houdlette archaeology parcel — land has been transferred from Friends of Merrymeeting Bay to the Archaeological Conservancy. FOMB led efforts to protect the property and retained a 4-acre section of […]