BRUNSWICK Touting what Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority Director Patricia Quinn says is their best July ever, NNEPRA moves into its new fiscal year with some positive numbers in the books. With ridership at more than 51,402, Quinn said both ridership and revenue for July mark a positive leap over last year’s numbers, increasing […]

LISBON If there can be an upside to a tragedy, the kind that leaves a family of seven homeless with only the clothes on their back, it is the way the community comes together to help. Alison Ross, her fiancé Derick Bolton and their five children lost their Josephine Street home to a fire on […]

PHIPPSBURG The Phippsburg Land Trust is in the process of adding two new parcels of land to its lengthy system of trails, recreational area and conservation lands in Phippsburg. The two parcels are nearly 50 acres in total and come at a cost of $188,000 to the land trust. The first parcel is about 27 […]

PORTLAND President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared a new national monument in northern 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 adjacent to Baxter State Park includes the […]

FREEPORT Sunday’s inaugural Amazing Place Adventure Race raised more than $10,000 for cancer research and patients, according to the American Cancer Society. The first-ever team-based mental and physical challenge contest attracted 21 teams. “We had one team that was made up of four cancer survivors,” said American Cancer Society event organizer Dawn Emery. “Many of […]

BATH — On Monday, Bath Police Det. Marc Brunelle arrested Bath resident Robert Scronce, 22, of Bath on an arrest warrant charging Scronce with Aggravated Unlawful Furnishing of Schedule Z Drug (Cannabis), a class C crime. Scronce was arrested on Centre St. in Bath. According to police, the arrest was a result of a month […]