BRUNSWICK On Tuesday, People Plus hosted the sixth annual People Plus Senior Health Expo at the Cook’s Corner Mall in Brunswick. This year, the expo set a record for participation with 80 organizations participating and an estimated 750 people in attendance. “Over the last six years, we have really grown this venue from 20 vendors […]

BRUNSWICK Friends of Merrymeeting Bay FOMB and Curtis Memorial Library will cosponsor a special live theater event featuring the Piti Theatre Company presenting “To Bee or Not To Bee” at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 22, in the library’s Morrill Meeting Room as part of Mid-Coast Maine Bee Week. Piti created the show to raise […]

BRUNSWICK Kenny is a “hurricane dog” that came to Coastal Humane Society from Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria wreaked havoc on the island, and he needs a cozy Maine home to call his own! He is a young adult “sato” (street dog) and a mutt. Like most satos, Kenny is medium-sized, weighing in […]

BRUNSWICK The Alzheimer’s Association is inviting Bath, Brunswick and Topsham area residents to participate in the Mid-coast Area Walk to End Alzheimer’s. The event will take place on Saturday, Oct. 21 at the Maine Street Mall and Gazebo in downtown Brunswick. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, more than a thousand Walk to End Alzheimer’s participants […]

BATH — Maine State Historian Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. will deliver an illustrated lecture, “ The Maine Homefront in World War I,” in the Community Room of the Patten Free Library in Bath 10:30 a.m. Oct. 21. The program is sponsored by Bath Historical Society, which will present a small exhibit of photographs of Bath […]

TOPSHAM Topsham will go without a fire chief a little longer after officials decided to restart the hiring process. The town’s former fire chief, Brian Stockdale, left the department at the end of July to become chief in Lewiston. Topsham Town Manager Rich Roedner said the town received 18 applicants for the position and the […]

PORTLAND Maine fishermen will be able to catch the same amount of baby eels for the worldwide market for sushi and Japanese food next year. An arm of the interstate Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission voted Tuesday to keep the 2018 quota for baby eels, or elvers, at a little less than 9,700 pounds. Fishermen […]

LEWISTON (AP) — A Maine man says his brother was one of the more than 300 people killed in a bomb blast in Mogadishu, Somalia. Twenty- seven- year- old Iman Osman, of Lewiston, says the explosion was so powerful that debris killed his brother even though he was 1,000 feet away when the truck bomb […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A Republican state lawmaker says he has unenrolled from the GOP to focus on solutions over party. State Rep. Norman Higgins says he will serve the rest of his second term as an independent. Higgins was among the only House Republicans who voted in favor of a budget before the three-day government […]