NEW YORK New York Sen. Charles Schumer says the next Navy destroyer will be named after U.S. Marine Cpl. Patrick Gallagher, an Irish immigrant from Long Island who died fighting in Vietnam. The Democratic senator made the announcement at a news conference near the Intrepid museum on Monday. Gallagher came from County Mayo and settled […]

BATH Morse High School announced Tuesday that Allen Commeau, a Morse Class of 1962 alumnus, is donating $50,000 to create a Music Enrichment Fund at Morse High School. The fund will provide scholarships to current music students to attend summer youth music schools as well as to expose students to other musical organizations such as […]

The Times Record is pleased to announce a new page A2 daily feature. In every edition published now through early June, we will showcase a single year in the history of Maine State Music Theatre in celebration of their sixtieth anniversary in Brunswick. Maine State Music Theatre is encouraging our readers and their patrons to […]

BATH — The Searching Science series at Patten Free Library continues on Wednesday, March 21 at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room, with a presentation for adults. Postdoctoral researcher LeAnn Pritchard Whitney from Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Sciences will talk about phytoplankton — the microscopic photosynthetic plants of the ocean — and more specifically, about […]

BATH Bath’s $2.8 million bond for sidewalk and street repair could soon be issued. The Maine Legislature’s State and Local Government Committee unanimously voted in favor of a bill Friday that will fix a mistake preventing the issuance of a bond approved by Bath voters in November. The city had not published the full text […]

LEWISTON A local couple has been awarded for their heroism last year when they came to the aid of a motorist trapped in a vehicle that had caught fire. In March 2017, Lincoln and Stacey Wheeler were driving back to their home in Bowdoin when they saw what they took to be a brush fire […]

BRUNSWICK — Solar Energy for ME, the Friends of Merrymeeting Bay presentation scheduled for tonight at the Curtis Memorial Library has been postponed due to winter weather. The presentation was to feature Rep. Seth Berry and Dylan Voorhees, director of Natural Resources Council of Maine Climate and Clean Energy. The program will be rescheduled as […]

Michigan-based Boyne Resorts has reached an agreement to assume outright ownership of six ski resorts it’s operating under long-term lease agreements, a development that could boost investment in the properties from Maine to Washington State, the company said. The agreement covers Brighton Resort near Salt Lake City; Cypress Mountain in British Columbia; Loon Mountain in […]