BATH The Navy is preparing a request for proposals for the next round of multi-year contracts for Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. The only two shipyards allowed to compete for the bid are Bath Iron Works and Ingalls Shipbuilding of Mississippi. Traditionally, the two shipyards have split construction of the destroyers roughly evenly. The Navy issued a […]

BRUNSWICK Temperatures plummeted to single digits Thursday evening when Craig Phillips, executive director of Tedford Housing, spoke at the organization’s annual homeless memorial service. “There are people tonight who are living in the woods of downtown Brunswick,” he said at the service at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. “Maybe not a lot of people, but we […]

HARPSWELL As part of an effort to prepare Harpswell for rising sea levels, the town received a $20,000 Coastal Community Planning Grant to plan for coastal flooding around Basin Point Road. “The project really involves two parts,” said Harpswell Town Planner Mark Eyerman. “One is to work with Gorill Palmer, who are the town’s contract […]

BRUNSWICK Trendy Stanchfield is the new executive director for the Coastal Humane Society and Lincoln County Animal Shelter. She was named to the position by the shelter system’s board of directors. The former executive director, Joe Montisano, left the organization in August to become director of the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth, Minnesota. Since Montisano’s […]

TOPSHAM This holiday season, and all year long, if you have a car and few hours to spare, you can make a difference in the life of a cancer patient as a Road to Recovery driver. The American Cancer Society is now recruiting volunteers throughout Maine to ensure that all cancer patients have transportation to […]