BATH On Wednesday, students across the country will participate in a walkout to protest gun violence. Among students participating in the Midcoast are those from Morse High School. The walkout comes in the wake of a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and will last 17 minutes — one minute for each victim killed. At Morse, […]

LISBON Before it can apply for funds to give the village area a facelift, Lisbon has to give residents a chance to offer input. A public hearing on a Community Development Block Grant application has been set for the next Lisbon Town Council meeting, March 20. The town intends to apply for the $300,000 grant […]

BRUNSWICK Additional parking planned for downtown Brunswick would rely on federal funding in order to move the project forward, according to town officials. Lack of downtown parking is an issue the town has tried to tackle for years. Economic and Community Development Director Linda Smith said a master plan for the downtown and outer Pleasant […]

BATH M idcoast community volunteers on Friday read to more than 4,000 Midcoast children in elementary school classrooms, child care centers and Head Start Centers from Waldoboro to Brunswick. United Way’s annual Community Read Aloud organizes approximately 200 volunteers to share the love of reading with young children and show them that adults in their […]

BRUNSWICK — On Wed. March 21, at Coastal Landing from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., recently retired University of Southern Maine Professor Allan Whitmore will discuss the conditions and events that resulted in the burning of the South Church in Bath in 1854. At that time there was virulent anti-Catholic sentiment in Maine and similar […]