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 […]

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 […]