HARPSWELL — For the first time in more than 30 years, the town’s state representative is not a member of the Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Marine Resources. Selectman Kevin Johnson said the decision breaks with a long tradition in Harpswell, where marine industry and resources are vital to the town’s economy.  “I was shocked,” he […]

BATH — It was Taco Tuesday at Bath Middle School, and what hadn’t been consumed by the sixth-graders finishing lunch wasn’t being dumped in the trash. Instead, it went into green, plastic composting containers. The city and Regional School Unit 1 are working with Garbage to Garden, a Portland-based curbside composting service, to reduce the […]

BRUNSWICK — The Bowdoin College Museum of Art has acquired a rare photograph of President Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration in 1861 – the first presidential inauguration captured on film. Only two other copies exist: one at the Library of Congress, the other at the Smithsonian Institution, both in Washington, D.C. Attributed to photographer Alexander Gardner, the beige-tinted photo […]

BRUNSWICK — The Brunswick Democratic Town Committee will host the 6th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day pasta supper to benefit the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program on Monday, Jan. 16, from 5-7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 15 Pleasant St. Bowdoin College post-doctoral fellow Holly Donahue Singh and Public Radio contributor and author Deepak Singh will give […]