BRUNSWICK The Brunswick house in which Harriet Beecher Stowe lived at the time she produced her most famous novel will be getting a facelift that will make its appearance closer to the way it looked in the mid- 19th century. The Brunswick Village Review Board on Tuesday unanimously granted the building’s owner, Bowdoin College, a […]

TOPSHAM A shot echoed through the brick hallways at Mt. Ararat High School on Tuesday. Voices repeatedly shouted “help!” An armed police officer moved from the school’s entrance up the stairwell, carefully through two sets of doors into a hallway. Then a man ran down the hallway toward the officer with arms up and pointing, […]

BRUNSWICK Brunswick is backing away from a plan that would have increased shellfish license fees in response to a ruling by the Maine Department of Labor. The issue arose after questions were raised last year during an inquiry over the way Waldoboro was running its conservation program. Similar to Waldoboro, Brunswick requires shellfish harvesters to […]

WOOLWICH Bill Potter will be Woolwich’s citizen representative on the Regional School Unit 1 restructuring committee, chosen for the task at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Board of Selectmen. In light of West Bath’s departure from RSU 1, the state has asked each town to choose a selectman and a citizen representative to serve on […]

EDGECOMB An Edgecomb teacher and founder of the nonprofit Center for Teaching and Learning is among 10 finalists for the “Nobel Prize of Teaching,” the Varkey GEMS Foundation Global Teacher Prize, which includes a $1 million award. Nancie Atwell will travel in March to Dubai to learn if she’s been selected for the award. Atwell […]