BATH Catherine Ann Wilson was born into a middle-income family, but her life’s story is full of trauma. “There’s a lot of different ways to homelessness. There’s a lot of different ways to be evicted, to be sex-trafficked,” Wilson said, speaking last week at a homelessness forum in Bath. “There’s a lot of different stories, […]

BRUNSWICK “If we’re old enough to spend our last moments bleeding out on a classroom floor, then we’re old enough to use our voice,” Morse High School senior Eli Goodrich told a crowd of more than 1,000 people on the Brunswick Mall Saturday. Local students and Brunswick Area Indivisible planned the local March for Our […]

BATH With the administration’s blessing, about 100 students walked out of Morse High School Friday to call for an end to gun violence in solidarity with other students around the country. Spurred by the death of 17 people during a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, a national walkout took place March 14; Morse students had […]

TOPSHAM Superintendent Brad Smith will be retiring from Maine School Administrative District 75 after this school year. Smith has submitted his letter of retirement to the school board, effective July 1. Smith has been the superintendent at MSAD 75 since July 2011. He joined the district as assistant superintendent the previous year, after working as […]

BRUNSWICK Brunswick Community Education Foundation recently announced it has awarded more than $47,000 to education initiatives across all six schools within Brunswick School Department. Brunswick Community Education Foundation is an independent non-profit organization that funds initiatives in the town’s public schools. The all-volunteer organization was established four years ago with the goal of enabling Brunswick’s […]

BATH Construction is underway on a new, permanent 1,000-square-foot exhibit at Maine Maritime Museum dedicated to Bath Iron Works, past, present and future. “BIW: Building America’s Navy,” produced in collaboration with Bath Iron Works, will provide an immersive, behind-the-scenes look at the people, processes, and ships of BIW. The public is invited to celebrate the […]

BOWDOINHAM — Androscoggin Valley Soil and Water Conservation District will host an introduction to irrigation systems and the importance of understanding soils will be followed by a site visit to Left Field Farm to discuss irrigation methods and the tools for understanding how much water to apply. The session will be April 23 from 9 […]

TOPSHAM Residents in towns that make up Maine School Administrative District 75 can hear more about its proposed budget this week. There will be three forums, kicking off with a meeting at 6:30 p.m. today at Harpswell Community School. The other forums, also set for 6:30 p.m., will take place at Woodside Elementary School on […]