BRUNSWICK Brunswick’s planning board approved a sketch plan for a $2 million Cook’s Corner connector road on Tuesday. Town Manager John Eldridge said last week the proposed construction of a connector road linking Gurnet Road and Admiral Fitch Drive at Cook’s Corner is intended to increase access to the growing Brunswick Landing site. John Adams, […]

LISBON After 62 years of dressing people as pirates, princesses, superheroes, villains and everything in between, Drapeau’s Costumes of Maine in Lisbon is shutting its doors. Owner Kris Cornish of Topsham purchased the store, which was originally located on Lisbon Street in Lewiston, and moved it to Main Street in Lisbon 12 years ago. A […]

BATH The director of the Bath Area Family YMCA said she is proud of staff who remained calm and followed lockdown procedures during an emergency situation on Monday afternoon. Bath police had responded to a report of a 14-year-old boy threatening people with a handgun outside the YMCA. Police later found that the weapon was […]

BATH In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the United States entering into World War I, Maine State Historian Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. on Saturday reflected on life on the Maine homefront. Although World War I began in the summer of 1914, it wasn’t until the spring of 1917 the the U.S. officially entered the […]

BRUNSWICK Phil is a quiet, laid back guy. He is content to spend his time observing the goings-on of Cat Room A from his special chair. He is 4 years old, and you can meet him at our Range Road Facility. As a handsome black cat, he is the perfect pet to remind everyone about […]

BOWDOINHAM Firefighters took a boat out into the driving wind and rain Tuesday afternoon to extinguish a small woods fire on Brick Island in Merrymeeting Bay. The fire was reported at 12:38 p.m. by two kayakers from north Bath who had seen the smoke from their residence and paddled to the island to investigate. The […]

On Saturday, Oct. 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. law enforcement agencies across Maine including the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office, Auburn Police Department, Lewiston Police Department, Lisbon Police Department, Livermore Falls Police Department and the Sabattus Police Department will again give the public an opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their […]

BRUNSWICK — CHANS Home Health & Hospice will be holding an interfaith memorial event for anyone who has lost a loved one in the past year. A Time for Remembering will be held on Sunday, Nov. 5, at 2 p.m. at the United Methodist Church, 320 Church Road, Brunswick. The event honors people who received […]