WOOLWICH A Woolwich family’s home was destroyed by a fire over the weekend. Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at 1160 Old Stage Road just after 6 p.m. Saturday. Woolwich Deputy Fire Chief Glen Kirkpatrick said crews were short-handed. In all, 10 departments responded to the scene to help. A downed power line in the […]

LISBON Lisbon’s school spending is due to rise by 5.5 percent, with taxes going up by 10 percent — according to its final budget proposal. Residents will have the opportunity to weigh in on the spending plan at a public hearing, scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday. The school committee is set to meet before the […]

FREEPORT A North Yarmouth man died from his injuries after his motorcycle collided with a truck Friday afternoon. Police say Matthew MacMillian, 24, was driving a 2006 Kawasaki on Desert Road at around 3:15 p.m. when he struck a 2014 Toyota pickup driven by Jonathan Thomas, 63, of Cumberland, that was towing a boat trailer […]

HARPSWELL Research on the brown tail moth in Harpswell will begin in mid-May. Eleanor Groden, University of Maine professor of entomology, will conduct a study that will run through February 2019. At the annual town meeting in March, voters approved spending $9,550 on Groedin’s research in Harpswell. The agreement was approved by selectmen unanimously on […]

The future USS Thomas Hudner — an Arleigh Burkec lass destroyer under construction at Bath Iron Works — has finished a key round of testing prior to the ship’s formal delivery to the U.S. Navy. The Navy said the Hudner successfully completed “acceptance trials” during pierside and underway demonstrations on May 3. A team from […]

HARPSWELL Harpswell selectmen Thursday set a public hearing on funding for improvements to the Mackerel Cove boat launch, ahead of a June 12 referendum vote. The public hearing will take place at 7 p.m. May 17 at the town office. Residents voted in favor of appropriating $60,000 to the boat launch at the March town […]

AUGUST Maine Republicans gathered at their state convention Saturday to celebrate their term-limited governor’s record and hear from leading party officials and gubernatorial candidates. More than 1,000 party delegates from across the state celebrated the party’s gains in Maine during the last decade. The 2010 and 2012 conventions saw Tea Party-fueled uprisings against the conservative […]

SKOWHEGAN The turnout at Eugene Cole’s visitation service Sunday at the Skowhegan Armory — as well as the outpouring of community support since his shooting death — show just how well-loved the corporal was in the county in which he served. Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster expressed those sentiments during a brief news conference outside […]

AUBURN (AP) — The Maine Warden Service says it will continue to use a variety of methods to search for the body of a 5-year-old boy who fell into the Androscoggin River last month. Helena Gagliano-McFarland has complained that the National Guard has not been brought in to help with the effort to recover her […]

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Police say a driver from Maine shot and killed himself on a Massachusetts highway after leading officers on a chase and threatening to shoot anyone who tried to stop him. Massachusetts State Police say the man was driving erratically Saturday night and was reported to be suicidal and armed. A […]