TOPSHAM The Topsham Planning Board approved a site plan application last week for the new Mt. Ararat High School. “This is really good news for our project,” said Superintendent Brad Smith. “There have been many meetings between town officials, the architect and school district. I believe this shows the level of responsiveness the architect has […]

BRUNSWICK Three months after Hurricane Maria, much of Puerto Rico still remains without power. In the storm’s aftermath, many of the island’s residents departed for the mainland, and one of them has ended up on Bailey Island. “It started when the hurricane came to my island, and my family … went to Florida because we […]

CHICAGO The good news for many in the Northeast and Midwest was that it has been a white Christmas. The bad news was that a blizzard swept into parts of New England and bitter cold enveloped much of the Midwest. Even the usually rainy Pacific Northwest got the white stuff. The National Weather Service says […]

BRUNSWICK Suzanne J.M. Krauss of Brunswick was nominated Thursday by Gov. Paul LePage to serve as director of the Maine Emergency Management Agency. A graduate of the U.S. Naval War College with a master’s degree in national security and strategy studies, Krauss has served in the U.S. Navy and Naval Reserve for 22 years. She […]

BRUNSWICK The Maine Technology Institute recently closed its Maine Technology Asset Fund 2.0 application portal and announced that it received 183 proposals from Maine companies and organizations seeking, in aggregate, $381 million in funding. The program is funded with $45 million in general fund bond dollars that were approved by the Maine Legislature and signed […]

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. East Coast fishermen are turning a wary eye toward an emerging upstart: the offshore wind industry. In New Bedford, Massachusetts, the onetime whaling capital made famous in Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick,” fishermen dread the possibility of navigating a forest of turbines as they make their way to the fishing grounds that have made […]

PITTSFIELD (AP) — Maine-based construction company Cianbro Corp. says it’s planning to hire 300 workers next year. The company employs 1,350 people in Maine and is looking for new people in jobs and trades needed for large projects in the state. One job is a federal contract with the U.S. Navy to make improvements at […]