BRUNSWICK The growing Mid-Coast Veterans Resource Center’s new director is no stranger to Brunswick. Richard Mears, who took on the role last fall, retired as Brunswick Police Department’s deputy chief in 1996. He then worked as a professor at the University of Maine in Augusta as coordinator of the Justice Studies program until retiring from […]

TOPSHAM Looking at a total dollar amount — $561,761 — Maine School Administrative District 75’s proposed increase in spending for the 2018-19 fiscal year seems high. But when compared to overall spending in the budget — $38.6 million — the increase amounts to a little less than 2 percent from the current year. In a […]

TOPSHAM Local residents were treated to a unique musical experience in Topsham over the weekend when the African Children’s Choir performed Sunday at the United Baptist Church. A group of 18 children from Uganda — ages seven to 11 — visited the Topsham church to perform a free concert for the public. The choir remained […]

BRUNSWICK The Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust has announced it has successfully renewed its national Land Trust Accreditation. “Re-accreditation is an affirmation of how we have matured as an effective and responsible land trust that can be trusted in the communities we serve,” said BTLT President Brad Babson in a press release. Board Secretary Emily Swan noted […]

BRUNSWICK What a smile! Aries is one of our longer term residents. He is a happy, handsome two-yearold black and white terrier mix with TONS of energy. He will need a home that is going to be firm and consistent in his training, and give him lots of mental and physical exercise. Aries does better […]

HARPSWELL — The Mingo Club of Bailey Island is offering a $1,000 educational grant to a high school senior who is a legal resident of Harpswell completing their secondary education in 2018. The grant is not limited to college or university costs but could be used for books, certification or licensing fees or training materials. […]

Commercial harvesters have dug for critters such as worms, clams and periwinkles on the mudflats around Acadia National Park for generations, and federal legislation moving through Congress would make sure they continue to do so. The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously signed off on a bill late Tuesday designed to allow harvesters of the worms […]

BOSTON The scrape of snow shovels and the drone of snowblowers filled the New England air on Wednesday as the region cleaned up from a storm that left 2 feet of snow in some places and tens of thousands without power. More than 150,000 customers in Massachusetts and another 20,000 in Maine were still without […]