SALEM, Oregon Jewett Williams served in the 20th Maine Regiment in the Civil War. When he died in 1922 at an Oregon insane asylum, he was cremated and his ashes were stored and forgotten along with the remains of thousands of other patients. With a color guard in Civil War-era uniforms present, Oregon State Hospital […]

TOPSHAM The public on Wednesday can sound off on several million dollars worth of items to be included in a new Mt. Ararat High School, funding for which will not be covered by the state. The forum is 6:30-8 p.m. in the Mt. Ararat High School Commons. There has not been a total cost estimate […]

BRUNSWICK One of the last Holocaust survivors living in Maine attended Maine State Music Theatre’s rendition of “Fiddler on the Roof” last week. Edith Lucas Pagelson, who turns 90 in September, is of Jewish descent and has seen the production multiple times since she moved to New York City after World War II. Though “Fiddler” […]

BRUNSWICK After a year of work volunteering for the Brunswick School Department as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer, Amanda Kierman has decided to stick around as she begins her professional career — working with the REAL School, a Falmouth special education school recently acquired by the district. Walking the hallway at Hawthorne School with Kierman, Assistant […]

FREEPORT The Amazing Place Adventure Race is coming to Freeport on Aug. 21. The event is sponsored by L.L.Bean, and proceeds will go to help the American Cancer Society of Maine “I am a huge fan of the Amazing Race so when I heard about the Amazing Place Adventure Race taking place in Freeport this […]

BATH — Bath police arrested a woman who was allegedly operating under the influence while driving north in the southbound lanes of Route 1 early Thursday morning. Bath Police Lt. Robert Savary said police responded to a complaint that a vehicle was traveling northbound on the southbound side of Route 1 and quickly responded. It […]

BRUNSWICK The Coastal Humane Society is preparing for it’s 11th Annual Paws for a Cause 5K, Walk and Festival at L.L. Bean, taking place Saturday, Aug. 27. The event will feature a 5K and Walk circling the L.L. Bean Campus and many new events in the expanded Paws for a Cause Festival, held out of […]

WEST BATH A dozen people who protested the christening of a warship at Maine’s Bath Iron Works are due in court. The demonstrators were arrested outside the shipyard on June 18 during the christening of the second in the Zumwalt class of destroyers for the Navy. They’re charged with obstructing a public way. Nine of […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Republican Donald Trump is heading to Portland, a liberal city in a state where the Republican presidential candidate has a chance to score an electoral vote. Trump campaign officials say the presidential candidate will visit Maine’s largest city on Thursday. Maine is traditionally considered a blue state but he has a chance […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration has gotten approval to spend up to $5,000 to defend a state commission against a $500 fine lodged by Maine’s Democratic attorney general. A hearing has been scheduled for Sept. 12-13 at Kennebec County Superior Court. Attorney General Janet Mills filed a civil complaint claiming a commission […]