GEORGETOWN Georgetown residents approved more than 50 warrant articles items without contention at Town Meeting on Saturday morning. Mary McDonald, assistant to the selectmen, noted that the adoption of the new Floodplain Management Ordinance, an item that may have caused some debate, passed smoothly. “We’re very independent and we don’t necessarily want to be told […]

BRUNSWICK — Kenneth Gloss, proprietor of the internationally known Brattle Book Shop in Boston’s Downtown Crossing section, will give a free talk on the value of old and rare books at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 17, at Curtis Memorial Library, located at 23 Pleasant St. in Brunswick. Ken, who is also a frequent guest appraiser […]

BRUNSWICK — The Curtis Friends Book Sale will take place Friday, June 26, through Sunday, June 28, in the Brunswick Junior High School gymnasium, located at 65 Columbia Ave. in Brunswick. There will be more than 70,000 items for sale — all books are $3 or less — and it is the largest annual book […]

HERMON A commission formed to help heal the divide between the state and its native people called Sunday for Maine leaders to respect the sovereignty of Maine’s four Indian tribes. Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission members celebrated the culmination of a two-year effort to expose what happened to tribal children who were […]

AUGUSTA A divisive national debate over whether dying patients should have the power to end their own lives will sweep into Maine this week when the Republican-controlled state Senate begins to consider so-called “deathwith dignity” legislation. Sen. Roger Katz’s bill, which the Republican from Augusta says the Senate could take up as early as today, […]

WATERVILLE A Maine woman was injured on a swing ride at a carnival in Waterville — the second accident in two days. The Kennebec Journal reports that a woman fell off a seat on the Air Time swing ride Saturday at about 3:45 p.m. while the ride was still in motion. The woman was taken […]