BRUNSWICK Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick will host a vigil tonight at 7 p.m. to honor those lost at the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy four years ago and to take a stand against gun violence. On Dec. 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot his mother before driving to the school where he killed 20 […]

BRUNSWICK Maine State Music Theatre elected three new members to their board of trustees during an annual meeting held December 13. Marie Barbieri, Reginald (Reg) Elwell, and Melissa Knutson — all from Brunswick, — joined the 25-member board for two year terms. Barbieri is a former professor and taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Williams […]

BRUNSWICK — Twice-Told Tales, the used-bookstore established in support of Curtis Memorial Library on Pleasant Street, will close temporarily at noon Dec. 24 for renovations. The store will remain closed through January and reopen in February. No book donations will be accepted during the closure.

BRUNSWICK — Seven Mid Coast Hospital physicians were recently honored for their supervision of Tufts University School of Medicine/Maine Medical Center Longitudinal Integrated Curriculum students at Mid Coast Hospital. Ira A. Bird, MD, Lawrence Fischman, MD, Nathaniel W. Hyde, MD, Tatyana Karchov, MD, Stephanie A. Phelps, MD, James P. Rines, MD, and Jeffrey R. Stenzel, […]

LEWISTON Androscoggin Home Care & Hospice has scheduled the next session of training for volunteers who wish to visit hospice patients to begin on Tuesday, Jan. 10, and there’s still space available for those who wish to become a volunteer. Volunteer opportunities are available across the agency’s service area which includes all of Androscoggin, Franklin […]

DAMARISCOTTA The Spectrum Generations Coastal Community Center and volunteer Meals on Wheels drivers are looking for people to sponsor meals for older and disabled adults who are isolated. On Dec. 23, the Coastal Community Center’s volunteer Meals On Wheels drivers will be delivering a hot meal along with a community supported agriculture and holiday ornament […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Crew members aboard a doomed cargo ship expressed increasingly dire concern — occasionally tinged with gallows humor — as a hurricane gained strength, culminating in one crewman lamenting “I’m a goner” as they scrambled to abandon the listing ship, transcripts show. The 500 pages of transcripts, which were released Tuesday, provide a new […]

BIDDEFORD A U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling favoring Amtrak in a wrongful death case stemming from an April 2012 accident that took the life of a Biddeford resident. In a ruling dated Nov. 18, the court upheld U.S. District Court Judge D. Brock Hornby’s decision to grant summary judgement to […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A report issued by the former chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court says Augusta’s Riverview Psychiatric Hospital is still having issues with staffing and space. The Portland Press Herald reports the report issued Tuesday by Daniel Wathen acknowledged that the state Department of Health and Human Services, which runs Riverview, […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A former Maine police officer charged with sending explicit pictures of himself to an undercover agent he thought was a 13-year-old 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 […]