The University of Maine was ordered to halt work on the research project just weeks before it had planned to launch its most advanced floating wind turbine yet.
2025
Neighborhood walk tells the stories of Brunswick nonprofits
The 1-mile walk will make stops at Brunswick Downtown Association, Tedford Housing, Maine State Music Theatre, Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program, The Theater Project and the Pejepscot History Center.
School leaders want more options to restrain students with violent behavior
District leaders are concerned about increasing behavioral issues in schools just a few years after the state raised the threshold to physically restrain or seclude students.
Late Arrowsic resident honored by Midcoast lawmakers, Gov. Mills
Rep. Allison Hepler (D-Woolwich), Rep. Sally Cluchey (D-Bowdoinham) and Gov. Janet Mills welcomed family and friends of the late Judy Kahrl of Arrowsic to the State House recently to honor her work. Kahrl, doctor of philosophy in adult education, was recognized by the entire House of Representatives for founding Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights, an organization […]
Lisbon credit union raises over $23,000 to end hunger
Lisbon Community Federal Credit Union and its members raised $23,260.70 for the Campaign For Ending Hunger last year. Funds were recently distributed to Lisbon Area Christian Outreach of Lisbon Falls ($17,445.52) and St. Mary’s Food Pantry of Lewiston ($5,815.18). Both organizations support the ongoing mission of feeding those facing food insecurity. The Campaign For Ending […]
Neighbors step up against hunger in Yarmouth
The restaurant Maggie Mae’s and the Yarmouth Community Food Pantry are creatively combating growing food insecurity in town.
Long-sought solutions to BIW traffic burden
Bath’s iconic shipbuilding past never envisioned the advent of the automobile or the possible enormity of a single shipyard’s workforce whose majority wouldn’t even reside within Bath. That reality has been an endless struggle borne chiefly by Bath residents below Leeman Highway and by BIW’s commuter workforce. Each struggling separately rather than finding a mutual […]
Letters to the editor: Praise for YMCA; on the Trump administration
What I love about the YMCA As a mother of a child with special needs, I would like to tell you what I love about the Y. When I adopted my son, I did not have much of a community and certainly not a support system for the challenges that we would face with his […]
‘Blair Witch’ star recalled from office in Freedom
Voters recalled Heather Donahue from office Wednesday night, after Ryan Willette stepped down Monday night, leaving the town with just one selectperson.
We know about Tesla, but what are Mainers saying with their Subarus?
As the connotations of driving a Tesla put the cars’ owners in a twist, we look at the state’s most popular vehicles and why we gravitate toward them.