BRUNSWICK — A free light body healing clinic will take place Friday from 1-5 p.m., presented by Greater Brunswick Physical Therapy and People Plus. The event will be held at the People Plus Center, 25 Union St., Brunswick. Healing practitioners will include massage, physical therapy, reiki and more. All sessions are free and open to […]

FREEPORT — On Sept. 21 at 6 p.m. Freeport Community Library invites high school students and their families to a “How Colleges Really Choose Students?” presentation with Wendy Thompson of Westport Educational Consulting. “How Colleges Really Choose Students?” will help families better understand the role essays, interviews, extracurricular activities, sports and other factors play in […]

TOPSHAM — The Topsham Public Library annual Friends’ Book Sale will take place at the library from Friday, Sept. 23, to Sunday, Sept. 25. The sale of gently used books, videos, DVDs and CDs provides funding for virtually all of the library’s programs for children, teens and adults. From 5-7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, is […]

PORTLAND President Barack Obama on Wednesday created a new national monument in Maine on 87,000 acres donated by the founder of Burt’s Bees, fulfilling conservationist Roxanne Quimby’s goal of gifting the land during the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. The Katahdin Woods and Waters monument includes the East Branch of the Penobscot River […]

Here are some quotes Wednesday about the president’s decision to create a new national monument, Katahdin Waters and Waters, east of Baxter State Park. “Katahdin Woods and Waters’ daytime scenery is awe-inspiring, from the breadth of its mountain-studded landscape, to the channels of its free-flowing streams with their rapids, falls, and quiet water, to its […]

BRUNSWICK Brian Beal, director of the Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education, recently spoke at Curtis Memorial Library about the organization’s field experiments in efforts to restore Casco Bay’s soft-shell clam populations. Warming ocean waters caused by climate change have coincided with population increases in native and invasive predators that have resulted in […]

BANGOR (AP) — A Maine man and his daughter were convicted of running a multi-state drug distribution ring earlier this week. Fifty-nine-year-old Roger Belanger and 31-year-old Kelli Mujo were found guilty Monday of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, possession with intent to distribute controlled substances and maintaining a drug-involved premise. Prosecutors say the father and […]

BANGOR (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving nearly $300,000 to five Maine communities and organizations to support rural business growth in the state. The largest grant will go to the town of New Canada to acquire land and build a garage and workshop for lease to Allagash View Farm to use for […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is holding a pair of campaign stops in Maine. The Sun Journal reports Johnson will appear in Portland and Lewiston on Friday. He will first stop at a brunch at Portland’s Regency Hotel at 11:30 a.m. and then hold a 6p.m.rally at Lewiston’s Gendron Franco American Heritage […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Contractors are trying to change two illuminated road signs in Portland that were changed to display obscene messages. A city spokeswoman tells WCSH-TV the signs, which are maintained by contractors, weren’t protected by passcodes and anyone could’ve gained access to them. The signs are located on Capisic and Frost Streets. They usually […]