FALMOUTH — A Cumberland woman died after she was hit by a car in the Falmouth Plaza parking lot on Route 1. Police said Margaret McLeod, of Cumberland, was leaving Wal-Mart and pushing a shopping cart when she was struck by a car driven by Gladys Casale, 78, also of Cumberland, at 2:35 p.m. on […]
February 2015
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Police arrest Brunswick man for bank robbery
BRUNSWICK — Police Tuesday charged a Brunswick man with robbing a Maine Street bank the afternoon of Feb. 18. Benjamin Lamphere, 20, was arrested at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday and charged with Class A felony robbery, a crime that carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. Brunswick police went to a Bank of Maine […]
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Posted inVegan Kitchen
During Maine Restaurant Week, vegetarians and vegans will find plenty to like
From four-cheese polenta with wild mushrooms and roasted carrots to a tofu kabob with eggplant and sumac vinaigrette, the options are many and diverse.
Posted inFood
Theater and food play well together
Maine Restaurant Week inspires Snowlion Repertory Company to produce 12 short plays about food and the ways it affects us.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Maine CDC gets new director
Ken Albert, who is an executive within the Department of Health and Human Services, will take over from Dr. Sheila Pinette.
Posted inLife & Culture, News
Mainer Jan Rankowski a figure of controversial GamerGate video
He says he portrayed the Jace Connors character as satire but wishes now he had never done it.
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Bowdoin College icon Wil Smith dies of cancer at 46
BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin College graduate Wil Smith, who raised a young daughter alone while attending college and then returned after law school to work as a dean, helping the college increase opportunities for people of color, died of colon cancer Sunday in Philadelphia at 46. Smith’s inspiring story was documented by NBC News, and he […]
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Bath boy a hero for helping to find alleged intruder
WEST BATH — In a surprise ceremony at West Bath School, 11-year-old Ethan Reno of Bath was honored as a hero for keeping his cool and working with police on a January afternoon to help track down a man who was allegedly hiding in the bathroom when Reno and his mother returned home. When Reno […]
Posted inLife & Culture
Augusta family’s 19th-century violin returns to life
A broken violin repaired by a Fairfield craftsman is restored and returned to the family that has owned it for generations.