BRUNSWICK A 23-year-old Brunswick man was charged with crimes including aggravated assault and terrorizing after allegedly threatening a group of people at his home early Saturday morning. He also was accused of cutting an 18-year-old woman with a 10-inch butcher knife and assaulting another man. Police were called at 7:20 a.m. Saturday to the home […]

BATH The City Council will be hearing a lot about water issues at 6 p.m. tonight at City Hall. The council will open with a public hearing to discuss an application to the state Community Development Block Grant program for a Public Infrastructure Grant. The city plans to submit a grant application to help reduce […]

The American Red Cross has a number of blood drives coming up. Eligible donors with all types are needed, especially those with O negative, A negative and B negative. Upcoming blood donation drives include: . Thursday, Feb. 19 — from 2-7 p.m. at West Bath Fire Department, located at 192 State Road in Bath . […]

FREEPORT — Freeport High School has released its honor roll for the second quarter. High honors Grade 9: Benjamin Barry, Maya Bradbury, Kellsie Britton, Maya Egan, Emmanuelle Greene, Julia Haldeman and Taylor Hooper White. Grade 10: Kelsey Barrett, Haley Boyden, Maxwell Doughty, Jordan Grotz, Maxell Heathco, Bennett Hight, Emily Latulippe, Lauren Moore, Maya Pierce and […]

LUBEC Despite a “freight train” of successive snowstorms that have buried two of the easternmost municipalities in Maine under several feet of snow in the past three weeks, it doesn’t look like the federal government will help pay for the town’s efforts to dig themselves out, according to a state official. Eastport, which has gotten […]

MEXICO (AP) — Authorities say that a pair of 15-yearold Rhode Island boys who got lost while snowmobiling tried to make a fire before hunkering down overnight in below-zero temperatures. The Maine Warden Service said Ty Howard-Gotto and his friend Jonah May were found unharmed Tuesday morning after staying in a small shelter. Wardens said […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Supporters and opponents of Gov. Paul LePage’s plan to overhaul the state’s tax code are getting their voices heard in Augusta. Tuesday is the first of several days of public hearings that the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee will hold on the Republican governor’s more than $6 billion budget plan. LePage’s effort to cut […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The settlement announced last month in a whistle-blower case targeting the Maine Center for Disease Control calls for a former employee to receive $142,500. The Sun Journal reported that the Maine Department of Health and Human Services will pay to settle a federal whistle-blower claim by Sharon Leahy-Lind. A second plaintiff, Katie […]

HARRISON (AP) — Authorities say a kite-skier has died after striking a metal shed in Harrison, Maine. Chief Deputy Naldo Gagnon of the Cumberland County Sheriff ’s office says 49-year-old Adam Tsapis was on Crystal Lake at about 11 a.m. Monday using a kite to propel him across the snow when his kite was caught […]