While big-budget thrillers have finally begun reaching pre-pandemic heights at the box office, Brunswick-area arthouse and independent theater owners say business remains down 25%, 50% or even 80%.
John Terhune
Staff Writer
As a member of METLN's quick strike investigations team, John writes about everything from gun legislation to housing. He previously spent a year on a deep-dive investigation of the Lewiston mass shooting as part of the Press Herald's collaboration with Frontline and Maine Public. A Waterville native, John has degrees from Middlebury College and Boston University and spends his free time going to the movies, practicing the guitar and defusing arguments at men's league soccer games.
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Market forces make affordable housing a tricky sell in Brunswick area
Local housing experts say financing for affordable housing developments is more complicated to put together than market-rate projects, which contributes to a shortage of cheap housing in the Midcoast.
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Brunswick, ‘losing its economic diversity,’ seeks to promote better balanced housing
The Brunswick Town Council voted Monday to create a new Housing Committee tasked with finding policies to ease the local housing crunch.
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Brunswick advocates: Composting can help both the planet and your wallet
A new food-waste drop-off site at the Brunswick Recreation Center is just part of a three-pronged effort to promote composting, which experts say could help the environment and the town’s bottom line.
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Health clinic hopes flower tour fundraiser will grow services
Oasis Free Clinic’s first Brunswick in Bloom fundraiser will help the organization expand its services for uninsured Mainers and asylum seekers.
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Ice cream shop still serving Brunswick after 67 years
After selling The Dairy Frost on Bath Road last year, longtime owner Kathy Bollinger and her family are helping to keep the Brunswick institution running.
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Interest rate hikes hinder Midcoast homebuyers
Rising interest rates have made it more difficult for prospective new homebuyers to compete in a hot housing market, according to local realtors.
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After husband’s death, Brunswick woman’s baking goes from therapy to booming business
Taxi drivers, police officers and students have helped turn family business Kristie’s Creations into a late-night hot spot.
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State law sparks energy savings in Brunswick and Topsham
Nearly 8,000 Central Maine Power customers can expect $8.5 million in savings thanks to ‘nonwire’ upgrades required by a 2019 law.
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Former science teacher to steer Harpswell charter school through tumultuous year
After seven years in the classroom, Mel Christensen Fletcher will serve as the interim head of school of Harpswell Coastal Academy, which hopes to follow up its consolidation process with a charter renewal.