BATH — Registration will open on Monday, March 12 for a five-week Lego Robotics class for children in grades two to four. The free classes will be on Tuesday afternoons from April 3 through May 8 (excluding the April vacation week) from 3:30-5 p.m. Participants will learn fundamentals of coding by working with “WeDo 2.0” […]

HARPSWELL With no candidates on the ballot, write-in candidates will battle for a seat on the MSAD 75 school board at the annual town meeting in Harpswell Saturday. While Harpswell doesn’t keep track of write-in candidates, there are at least two announced candidates for the three-year term: Incumbent Joanne Rogers and newcomer Peter Huntsman. Rogers […]

BATH Morse High School Assistant Principal Eric Varney has been nominated to take over as principal of the high school from outgoing Principal John Pinkerton. The school board will consider the nomination at a special school board meeting this Monday at 11:15 a.m. Varney worked in the district as a science teacher for more than […]

VASSALBORO (AP) — The Maine Attorney General’s Office says police officers were justified in fatally shooting two people who were in a pickup truck that rammed a police cruiser. Investigators say in a report this week that state police Lt. Scott Ireland and Trooper Jeff Parks acted in self-defense in the February 2017 shooting of […]

BREWER (AP) — Regulators say Maine fishermen’s sea urchin harvest was about in line with recent averages in 2017. Fishermen in Maine, California, Alaska and other states harvest sea urchins for their roe, which is used as food. The Maine Department of Marine Resources says fishermen in the state harvested a little less than 2 […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine Center for Disease Control says five more people have died from the flu in the past week, even as the number of new cases and hospitalizations slowed. The state said Wednesday that the number of new confirmed cases dropped 23 percent from the week before to 497, and the number […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The Maine Attorney General’s Office says a Portland police officer was justified in fatally shooting a man who was brandishing a pellet gun because it appeared to be a real rifle. Sgt. Nicholas Goodman shot 22-year-old Chance David Baker in the parking lot of a strip mall in February 2017. In a […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The Governor’s Energy Office says the price of heating oil in Maine has dipped as cold weather eases. The statewide average cash price for No. 2 heating oil was $2.73 per gallon this week. The office says that is 22 cents less than it was at the end of January. The statewide […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The fire chief in Maine’s largest city is retiring at the end of the month. Portland City Manager Jon Jennings says Fire Chief David Jackson is set to retire. Jackson has been chief of the department since February 2016 and has been with the Portland Fire Department since July 1990. Jennings says […]