FREEPORT Before town councilors can decide whether to permit the 80- ton, steel-hulled Island Rover vessel to be moved and launched, they are going to need more information. During a three hour discussion Tuesday night, town councilors laid out for the attorney of the Island Rover Foundation what additional information they need before deciding whether […]

BRUNSWICK Explore Tech: Engineers Make a World of Difference, a new traveling exhibition, opens at Curtis Memorial Library on Saturday, Oct. 28. According to the library, the exhibition “will show how engineering provides solutions to better meet human needs and develop sustainable innovations for the future, and how engineers create new technologies to solve problems. […]

BATH — Have fun creating an LED illuminated Jack O’ Lantern for Halloween. Patten Free Library will give each teen participant a pumpkin and a string of 50 LED lights, and will have electric drills and various carving tools on-hand. This free, make-and-take Halloween event is open to students in grades 7-12 and will be […]

BATH — The Neighborhood UCC, located at 798 Washington St. in Bath is offering an evening of financial information and services to allow individuals to set up sources of income that supports nonprofit organizations of their choice. Eric Simonds, Certified Public Accountant, will explain the options and opportunities on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 6:30 – 8:30 […]

BRUNSWICK Brunswick Town Councilor Kathy Wilson said that she has received an apology from the man who left an anti-lgbt flier on her car last month. “I believe he was really apologetic, and he had no idea that he was being threatening,” said Wilson. “I believe him.” Wilson discovered the flier last month, after returning […]

BRUNSWICK Police says a New Hampshire man crashed his pickup truck on Route 1 in Brunswick Sunday after apparently experiencing a medical event. The crash was reported at 9:40 a.m. Sunday. Matthew Lyford, 62, of Exeter, N.H., was driving a 2006 Ford pickup truck south on Route 1 when he lost control of his vehicle […]

PORTLAND Despite a devastating drug epidemic, Maine crime reported in certain federally standardized categories dropped 8.7 percent last year, for the fifth consecutive annual drop, officials said Wednesday. The numbers were good news, but don’t take into account the toll of drugs in a state caught in an epidemic of opioids and overdoses, said Steve […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Interstate fishing managers are starting a new push to get better data about the lobster fishery. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s lobster board agreed this week to send proposed changes to management rules out for public comment. The commission says the new rules seek to improve reporting of lobster harvesting and […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap is calling for President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission to provide him with information about its activities that he says is overdue. Dunlap, a Democrat, is a member of the commission. Dunlap says in a letter to the executive director of the commission that he’s “sworn […]