BRUNSWICK The Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust has announced it has successfully renewed its national Land Trust Accreditation. “Re-accreditation is an affirmation of how we have matured as an effective and responsible land trust that can be trusted in the communities we serve,” said BTLT President Brad Babson in a press release. Board Secretary Emily Swan noted […]

BRUNSWICK What a smile! Aries is one of our longer term residents. He is a happy, handsome two-yearold black and white terrier mix with TONS of energy. He will need a home that is going to be firm and consistent in his training, and give him lots of mental and physical exercise. Aries does better […]

HARPSWELL — The Mingo Club of Bailey Island is offering a $1,000 educational grant to a high school senior who is a legal resident of Harpswell completing their secondary education in 2018. The grant is not limited to college or university costs but could be used for books, certification or licensing fees or training materials. […]

Commercial harvesters have dug for critters such as worms, clams and periwinkles on the mudflats around Acadia National Park for generations, and federal legislation moving through Congress would make sure they continue to do so. The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously signed off on a bill late Tuesday designed to allow harvesters of the worms […]

BOSTON The scrape of snow shovels and the drone of snowblowers filled the New England air on Wednesday as the region cleaned up from a storm that left 2 feet of snow in some places and tens of thousands without power. More than 150,000 customers in Massachusetts and another 20,000 in Maine were still without […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH (AP) — A former fire department chief in Maine will spend a year in prison for setting fire to a large marsh area. Sixty-one-year-old Ricky Plummer, former fire chief in Old Orchard Beach, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty in October to setting a fire that spread to more than 40 acres […]

LUBEC (AP) — Maine’s scallop fishing season is nearing its final weeks with many scallop fishing grounds still open for harvesting. The Maine scallop season begins in December and runs until April 10 this year. The state’s regulators use targeted closures to protect scallops from succumbing to over harvesting. The Maine Department of Marine Resources […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A new study has concluded Cumberland County is the healthiest locality in Maine and Washington County is the least. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute released the ninth annual County Health Rankings on Wednesday. The study looked at data including tobacco use, access to care, […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Police in Portland, Maine, say a man who died in a crash involving a city-owned snow hauler has been identified. Police say the crash killed 58-year-old Robert Belanger, of Portland, at 3:46 a.m. on March 10. The crash is still under investigation. Police say Belanger was walking on a major street in […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A man who lives on a Maine island is accused of making hundreds of vulgar and threatening phone calls to the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C. The Bangor Daily News reports that 39-year-old Eric Malmstrom, of Vinalhaven, allegedly threatened Swedish Embassy officials and their families, and even the Swedish monarch. Court documents […]