BRUNSWICK Brunswick’s school board has just started work on a nearly $37 million budget, but a request has already come from the town’s administration to eliminate $750,000 from the proposal. The initial budget proposal, subject to a workshop by the school board Wednesday, represents a $1.2 million, or 3.4 percent, increase. The town’s share of […]

BRUNSWICK The turboprop plane startup Kestrel announced Wednesday that it will merge with the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Eclipse Aerospace, a similar company that already has a light jet on the market. Chad Elkins, a spokesman for the merged company called ONE Aviation, said the merger will not have an immediate impact on employment at Kestrel’s […]

TOPSHAM It was reminiscient of The Price Is Right at Woodside Elementary School as students were called to the front of the gym Wednesday morning — but the only wheels to spin were attached to bicycles going home with 38 lucky kids. The event was the culmination of the Bikes for Books program presented by […]

Curtis Memorial Library is asking Brunswick and Harpswell residents to share their ideas about how the library can best serve the community, today and in the future. The Times Record is supporting the library in this effort by posting each question of the day through April 17, right here on Page A2. Today’s question is: […]

Arrests Two men were charged after police responded to a report of an assault at a Shea Street residence at 7:15 p.m. April 6. Travis J. Clavette, 21, of Durham, was summonsed for assault after allegedly striking a 30-year-old male resident. The victim was assessed by emergency medical services but was not transported to the […]

AUGUSTA Maine Sen. David Burns will withdraw his ‘religious freedom’ bill because of scrutiny the bill has received and comparisons to the controversial Indiana law that drew national outcry over concerns it allowed for discrimination against gays and lesbians. Burns has said the bill, LD 1340, was about protecting Mainers’ right to free exercise of […]

Moments after a jury found 72-year-old lobster fisherman Merrill “Mike” Kimball guilty of murdering a 63-yearold Georgetown man, his wife embraced the stunned man one last time before he was led from the courtroom in handcuffs. A Cumberland County Superior Court jury issued its verdict early Wednesday afternoon after deliberating roughly eight hours over two […]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage on Wednesday dismissed criticism made by Democrats that only the wealthy would benefit from his tax plan and said he intends to wage a “full out war” to ensure Maine’s income tax is eventually eliminated. In that vein, the governor unveiled a new online “calculator” that will […]

WESTBROOK (AP) — An Illinois company wants to buy a Maine electrical contracting company that has been in business for nearly a century. MYR Group Inc. of Rolling Meadows, Illinois, says Wednesday it has signed a purchase agreement to acquire E.S. Boulos Co. of Westbrook, Maine, for $11.4 million. The Portland Press Herald reports that […]