BATH Shelley Little has gathered more than 600 signatures from Bath residents asking the Bath City Council to write a letter expressing their support for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in its opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. “If there’d been more than just me collecting signatures, I know we could have gotten more,” said […]

PORTLAND The mother of a Maine toddler who disappeared five years ago while staying with her father plans to take steps to obtain a legal declaration that the child is dead. The declaration would be the first step to asserting future legal claims and holding accountable those responsible for Ayla Reynolds’s death, the mother’s family […]

BOWDOINHAM With scant discussion, Bowdoinham town meeting voters unanimously authorized selectmen to buy 54 acres at 121 Pond Road to house a future public works facility, using up to $105,000 from the town’s undesignated fund balance. The town meeting body also unanimously voted in favor of using up to $65,000 from the undesignated fund balance […]

WISCASSET The Lincoln and Sagadahoc Multi-county Jail Authority again decided to keep Mark Westrum, the correctional administrator for Two Bridges Regional Jail, on paid administrative leave until its January meeting. The jail authority first voted to put Westrum on paid administrative leave at its previous meeting Oct. 12 following his arrest by Bath Police Department […]

PORTLAND A former Maine police officer charged with sending explicit pictures of himself to an undercover agent he thought was a 13-yearold girl is set to be sentenced next month in federal court. The Portland Press Herald reports 25-year-old Garrett Brosnan agreed to waive indictment and plead guilty to sending obscene material to a minor […]