HARPSWELL On Thursday, the Harpswell Board of Selectmen will discuss several issues relating to Mitchell Field, among other items. The Mitchell Field Pier, which the town took over from the Navy, has degraded over the years. Earlier this year, the pump house collapsed and had to be removed. The Mitchell Field Committee has recommended that […]

BRUNSWICK Brunswick High School junior Kyra Teboe, 15, has been named a 2017 National Young Arts Foundation merit winner in jazz piano. She joins “691 of the nation’s most promising young artists from 40 states across the literary, visual, design and performing arts,” said YA Foundation spokeswoman Dejha Carrington. Teboe’s award draws “national attention to […]

TOPSHAM — Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation will award $30,685 worth of equipment to two Lisbon first responders Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Firehouse Subs, 56 Topsham Fair Mall Road. First responders will be on site to give demonstrations. Lisbon Emergency is to received two cardiac monitor defibrillators worth $29,685. The granted equipment will assist […]

BATH — With winter approaching, the city of Bath is reminding owners and occupants to removing snow and ice from the sidewalks adjacent to their sites after a storm, and icicles that overhang streets or sidewalks. In the Downtown zone, the streets ordinance requires that snow be removed within 4 hours of the end of […]

MINNEAPOLIS Authorities are investigating whether the car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University that injured 11 people was an act of terror. The attacker, Abdule Razak Ali Artan, was killed Monday after he drove into a group of pedestrians on campus, then began stabbing people with a butcher knife. Artan was born in Somalia and was […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine secretary of state says opponents of a Maine ballot initiative that raises taxes on high earners have withdrawn their request for a recount. Voters approved the measure on Nov. 8. The question asked voters if they wanted to add a 3 percent tax on households that earn more than $200,000 […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage says he will propose slashing the income tax rate to lessen the impact of a new income surtax and minimum wage hike that Mainers approved this month. The idea will be in LePage’s budget proposal due in January. In a letter to legislators, LePage said Maine voters didn’t […]

NAPLES (AP) — Court records show a slaying suspect fatally shot in a shootout with sheriff ’s deputies in Naples, Maine, over the weekend had previously been convicted of domestic assault and sexual assault, among other charges. Authorities say Richard Diekema was found dead inside his mobile home when deputies confronted suspected shooter Norman Strobel, […]