BATH Voters in Arrowsic, Bath, Phippsburg and Woolwich approved the $27.2 million Regional School Unit 1 spending plan at the ballot box on Tuesday night. Preliminary figures from Tuesday’s vote show that the RSU 1 budget passed by a 326-92 margin. This year, the local share amounts to about $16.8 million, which has increased by […]

  FREEPORT Regional School Unit 5’s nearly $30 million budget appears to have passed, despite being rejected by the majority of Pownal and Durham residents who came to the polls on Tuesday. The final, combined vote in Durham, Freeport and Pownal was 1,176-958. Freeport residents approved the budget by a wide margin, 917-378, with one […]

BOWDOINHAM Bowdoinham voters will report to the Bowdoinham Community School Wednesday night to vote on a 47-article town meeting warrant which includes a proposed $1.58 million budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year, as well as a consumer fireworks ordinance. The annual town meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the school, located on Cemetery Road. The […]

BATH A dozen houses — filled with history or boasting beautiful gardens — will be a part of Sagadahoc Preservation Inc.’s 13th annual House & Garden Tour, which will take place from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 13. Several architectural styles will be represented by houses on this year’s tour including Colonial, Federal, […]

AUGUSTA A day after Gov. Paul LePage vetoed 10 bills sponsored by Democrats because they blocked his bid to have a referendum to repeal the income tax, the House and Senate pushed back Tuesday by reviving nine of them. All 10 bills came up for override votes in either the House or Senate, and two […]

RICHMOND Several municipal officials were elected Tuesday in a local election with no opposed races and voters also approved the Regional School Unit 2 budget. O’Neil LaPlante and Gary Poulin were elected to three- year terms on the Board of Selectmen with 110 and 128 votes, respectively. Poulin will serve his second term; LaPlante had […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The families of students who will attend Portland public high schools now know more about new bus plans. WMTW-TV reports that Greg Jordan, general manager of Greater Portland Metro bus, talked with parents at an open house Tuesday night in Deering. He said students will gain independence and responsibility to navigate their […]

ROCKLAND (AP) — Coast Guard officials say they want to keep as many items as possible it the Maine Lighthouse Museum following a closeddoor meeting at Rockland City Hall. Roughly 700 items have been on loan to the museum for the past 20 years — a loan WABI-TV reports expired last year. Museum officials say […]

AUGUSTA Top legislators are working feverishly behind closed doors on a budget deal that would include broad income tax cuts and an expansion and increase in the sales tax. A document obtained by the Bangor Daily News on Tuesday outlined several pieces of a tax reform plan being considered by leadership in the House and […]