BATH Nighttime demolition work on the Bath viaduct is over — for now. The $12 million project to demolish and reconstruct the viaduct connecting Route 1 to the Sagadahoc Bridge is on a tight schedule. Originally built in 1958, the viaduct took more than two years to build. The new viaduct, however, will be completed […]

BRUNSWICK Leneler “Sue” Wilson is not a veteran herself, but her sister, Mary Studen, was. When Studen — who was a nurse on the front lines in World War II — died 16 years ago in New Hampshire, the coroner misplaced the body, due to an alleged faulty death certificate. The body sat in a […]

AUGUSTA The Legislature’s investigative arm Thursday released preliminary results of its review of the Maine State Lottery, saying that while academic research shows lottery sales increase as socio-economic status declines, it had found no evidence that the state had specifically targeted particular segments of the population. Legislators in January had tasked the Office of Program […]

TOPSHAM With the threat of another bumper crop of browntail moth looming, Topsham selectmen on Thursday talked about a regional approach to finding solutions to the nuisance caterpillars and directed their town manager to work on forming a coalition to combat the insect. Maine Forest Service entomologist Charlene Donahue informed more than a dozen local […]

BRUNSWICK — The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority has announced that Pan Am Railways has concluded the tie replacement project on the track between Portland and Wells ahead of schedule. Full Downeaster service between Portland and Boston was to resume with the operation of Train 680 on Thursday. Bus transportation will continue to be […]