The following students at Brunswick High School demonstrated academic excellence and earned honors during the first-quarter: Honor Roll Grade 9 Gavin Bailey, Anna Barnes, Julia Barron, Felix Battle, Bjorn Beal, Annelise Bernier, Harmony Buonaiuto, Brianna Campbell, Weston Cooper, Jasmine Couture, Neve Dauphinais, Joshua Doring, Brandon Ellis, Morgan Foster, Isaak Franklin, Eva Fulton, Tucker Gagnon, Kaeden […]
2018
Victim of Millinocket fire is identified
The 67-year-old man’s body was found in the rubble when a house burned to the ground on Thursday.
Vets First Choice to become Covetrus
Nearing completion of a merger with a New York firm, the Portland company will also go public.
Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg undergoes cancer surgery
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, has 2 malignant growths removed from a lung, the court announces.
Michigan State hampered probe of doctor’s sex-abuse scandal, lawyer says
Hundreds of women and girls, most of them gymnasts, accused Larry Nassar of molesting them under the guise that it was treatment.
LePage calls new ranked voting system ‘repugnant’
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s Republican governor has cast more doubt on a recent congressional election, which the losing GOP incumbent is seeking to nullify in a federal lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of the state’s new voting system. Gov. Paul LePage called Maine’s ranked-choice voting system “repugnant” to constitutional rights in Wednesday court filings. Rep. […]
Partial government shutdown begins over Trump’s $5.7 billion demand for border wall
Funding for many federal agencies runs out as a bipartisan spending deal is scuttled by the showdown over funding for 215 miles of wall on the Mexico border.
Audit: CMP meters are accurate, billing problems ‘minimal’
PORTLAND (AP) — An independent audit faults Central Maine Power leadership for errors introduced by a new billing system but found those errors to be “minimal” and concluded that the meters are accurate, the Maine Public Utilities Commission reported Thursday. The report by the Liberty Group suggested that cold temperatures and a spike in electricity […]
Appeal of Market Basket project to be dismissed
WESTBROOK — Westbrook Property Holding, a limited liability corporation with a Brown Street apartment address, has asked for the dismissal of its appeal of the Planning Board’s approval of the first phase of Rock Row. The first phase, approved Sept. 18, includes an 80,000-square-foot Market Basket grocery store and a number of other retailers and commercial […]