GEORGETOWN — A presentation — on Georgetown’s Heal Eddy Restoration Project will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 16, at Georgetown High School, located at 20 Bay Point Road. The program, which is free and open to the public, will be given by Chris Warner and John Hagan. Georgetown’s Heal Eddy, a 2.3 acre […]

TOPSHAM — A fundraiser for the Logan Sweet Foundation will be held Friday at the Orion Performance Arts Center during the musical production “13, a Musical” as part of the organization’s ongoing effort to raise awareness about Myocarditis. The fundraiser is happening in conjunction with the musical production of 13, a story about a 13 […]

FreeportUSA and Coastal Humane Society have joined forces to help raise fund for the shelter. FreeportUSA is selling totes for $10, which offer 10 percent off when shopping at selected Freeport business. All of the proceeds from the sale of the totes will go to benefit Coastal Humane Society. The totes are available for purchase […]

TOPSHAM The School Administrative District 75 Board of Directors will celebrate its retiring employees and appoint a Bowdoin Central School principal at its meeting tonight at Mt. Ararat High School. The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. in room 201. Retiring employees to be recognized include Elizabeth “Liz” Bouchard (Bowdoinham Community School), Jane Kennedy (Williams-Cone […]

An invasive insect called the hemlock woolly adelgid has been spreading up the Maine coast since first discovered in the state more than a decade ago. As its name suggests, the pest infests hemlock trees. It saps them of moisture and nutrients, causing the trees to become sick and, under certain conditions, die. Paul Dumdey, […]

NEW GLOUCESTER (AP) — Maine officials say a school bus and a car have collided head- on in New Gloucester. The Cumberland County Sheriff ’s Office says 59- year-old Robert Doughty Jr. of Yarmouth was driving Wednesday on Route 231 when his car went off the road, he overcorrected and crossed into the path of […]

ALFRED (AP) — A murder trial is getting underway now that a Maine man charged with killing his grandmother and setting fire to her home has been declared competent to stand trial. Opening statements are expected today in the trial of Derek Poulin, who’s charged with beating and stabbing 61-year-old Patricia Noel in October 2012 […]

MACHIAS ( AP) — The Downeast Salmon Federation is training volunteers to help survey the rainbow smelt populations in Downeast Maine. The group us holding training sessions for volunteers in Machias today and Pembroke on Friday. The group says the survey is a “ massive data collection effort” to learn more about smelt population status […]

HOPE Police are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a Camden man who was killed Tuesday afternoon by a rock that crashed through his windshield as he was driving on heavily traveled Route 17. James Nash, 73, died at the scene of the incident that occurred in Hope near the Union townline. […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Central Maine Power is warning customers of a “surge” of telephone scam attempts. The utility said scammers are calling business and residential customers and saying they either missed a payment or that their payment wasn’t processed properly. Company officials they’ve received hundreds of scam reports that callers are instructing customers to buy […]