• THE TIMES RECORD did not print Monday due to yesterday’s storm and ensuing power outage. We thank you for your understanding. Sections A and B are labeled as Monday pages. Today’s edition includes an additional C section that includes additional news and sports and are labeled Tuesday pages.
2017
Crews cleaning up Bowdoin College campus
BRUNSWICK With a weather emergency issued for Bowdoin College, and non-essential staff asked to stay home Monday, crews on the Brunswick campus were cleaning up from the aftermath of Sunday night’s storm. “It’s kind of a mess up here,” Scott Hood, senior vice president of communications and public affairs for the college, said on Monday […]
Two fatal collisions under investigation in Brunswick
BRUNSWICK Brunswick police say an elderly man is dead and three other people are injured following wrong-way crash on Monday night. On Monday at 7:48 p.m., police received a call about a sedan driving the wrong way in the northbound lane of the divided section of Route 1 near Cook’s Corner. Responding officers were unable […]
Women’s Shipbuilding Day returns to Bath Nov. 12
BATH The fourth annual Women’s Shipbuilding Day in Bath will take place at the Maine’s First Ship’s waterfront boatshed on Sunday, Nov. 12 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Maine’s First Ship is building Virginia, a reconstruction of the first ship built by English colonists in 1607 at the mouth of the Kennebec. Maine’s First […]
Mid Coast Hospital Auxiliary holds annual meeting, $60K raised for new MRI
BRUNSWICK More than 50 members of the Mid Coast Hospital Auxiliary joined together on Wednesday, October 11 for an Annual Meeting and brunch held at Brunswick Hotel and Tavern. The event highlighted the 2017 accomplishments of the Auxiliary, as well as the election of new board members and contributions of the Auxiliary to priority projects […]
Crews scramble to restore power to Northeast
PORTLAND Utility crews scrambled to restore power throughout New England on Tuesday, one day after a severe storm packing hurricane-force wind gusts and torrential rain left more than a million customers without electricity and forced communities to postpone Halloween festivities due to damage. The storm knocked out power to nearly 1.5 million homes and business […]
Maine gov issues state of emergency amid storm, outages
PORTLAND ( AP) — Maine’s governor has issued a state of emergency proclamation as state grapples with a powerful wind and rain storm and thousands of power outages. The number of homes and businesses in the dark in Maine has surpassed the peak number from the infamous ice storm of 1998. More than 480,000 homes […]
Shelter director resigns after dogs escape
WATERVILLE ( AP) — The executive director of a shelter in Maine where two pit bulls disappeared after being ordered euthanized has resigned. Lisa Smith resigned two days after the dogs went missing from the Humane Society Waterville Area. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld an order on Oct. 24 that the dogs should be […]
Maine governor’s deputy chief of staff stepping down
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage says his longtime deputy chief of staff is stepping down. Kathleen Newman also served as LePage’s legislative director. The Republican governor said on Monday that Newman has decided to leave her position. Newman had previously been the president of Associated Builders and Contractors of Maine, a group that […]
Police say death of man in burned mobile home is a homicide
WHITNEYVILLE (AP) — Police say the death of a commercial fisherman found dead inside his burned mobile home in Maine is being investigated as a homicide. The body of 48-year-old Wayne Foss was found early Saturday inside his mobile home. The home was destroyed by fire in Whitneyville, a tiny town in Washington County. Police […]