TOPSHAM School Administrative District 75 will have missed an entire week of school, thanks to the tropical storm remnants that knocked out power across the Midcoast on Monday. “We have waited to make a decision each morning in hopes that somehow schools would be able to open,” said Superintendent Brad Smith in a statement Thursday […]

FREEPORT Central Maine Power Company estimates it has restored power to more than 80 percent of the customers who lost service after a wind and rain storm tore through the state earlier this week. By 10 p.m. Thursday, outages had dropped to an estimated 80,000 customer accounts from a peak of 404,000 at midday Monday, […]

BRUNSWICK Although statewide ballots won’t be as crowded as they were in 2016, Maine voters still face a number of decisions at the ballot box on Nov. 7. On Tuesday, Mainers will vote on allowing a casino in York County, expanding Medicaid, an infrastructure bond and a constitutional change to the state employee pension fund. […]

Androscoggin County Sheriff Eric Samson is warning citizens of a phone scam that is occurring throughout Androscoggin County. A male identifying himself as Lt. Vance Berry of the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office has been calling residents telling them they missed jury duty and a warrant for their arrest has been issued. The Sheriff’s Office has […]

BRUNSWICK — On Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. in the library’s Morrell Meeting Room, Curtis Memorial Library and the American Association of University present a panel discussion: “Bowdoin Women in Computer Science.” Laura Toma, associate professor of computer science at Bowdoin College, along with two students, Bolor-Erdene Jagdagdorj and Grace Mallett, and her colleague […]

BATH — The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust is hosting its annual Fall Environmental Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 9 at the Maine Maritime Museum in Long Reach Hall. The program, “Adapting Our Home: Understanding the Relationship between Stormwater, Infrastructure and Nature,” will begin at 7 p.m. Speakers will be from the Bath Planning and Development Department […]

BRUNSWICK — People Plus in Brunswick will mark Veterans Day with readings from a collection of wartime letters, offered by Membership Coordinator Frank Connors who was a paratrooper in Vietnam in 1967-68. The letters will be read Thursday, Nov. 9, at 1:30 p.m. Connors said most of the letters were sent home to his family […]

FREEPORT By a 6-1 vote Thursday, the Freeport Town Council voted not to issue an overweight moving permit for the 80-ton Island Rover vessel, which remains unwelcome by the Bucknam Road neighborhood. Owners of the vessel, Carter Becker and Harold Arndt, can reapply for a permit, but will likely miss the Nov. 15 deadline they […]