BRUNSWICK — Michael Crafts has been hired as the town’s director of Public Works. Crafts, originally from Lisbon Falls, previously spent 23 years working for the U.S. Navy in different capacities, including as a public works director in Illinois and New Jersey. When he begins the position in Brunswick July 16, Crafts will earn an annual […]
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Topsham Comp Plan feedback embraces safer streets
TOPSHAM — A public input session at Topsham Public Library drew about 60 people and helped guide the town staff as it updates its 2005 Comprehensive Plan. The ad hoc Comprehensive Plan Committee first met in November 2016 to review the document – last updated in 2011 – and hired Maine Design Workshop as a two-year planning […]
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Colonial ship being reconstructed in Bath sails toward 2020 completion
BATH — A list of goals posted at the 19th-century Commercial Street freight shed has but two items concerning the reconstruction of the pinnace Virginia. At the top, for Dec. 22, is the completion of the vessel’s hull planking and deck framing. Several spaces below at the bottom, for June 7, 2020: launch day. “It […]
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Supporters still hope to save Portland all-girls school
PORTLAND — While the announcement that it would close later this month seemed sudden, officials at Maine Girls’ Academy this week said they’ve exhausted virtually all their options to keep the school open. “This board is smart, well-connected and hardworking and there was a concerted, consistent, all-out, multi-year effort” to keep the only all-girls school in […]
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Brunswick artist brings imaginative message to MECA in Portland
BRUNSWICK — The third floor of the Fort Andross Mill, with its stark white walls and plain wood floors, looks pretty bland. One room situated within it, however, is anything but boring. A huge open space full of colorful canvases, cans of paint and stained brushes is home to artist Katherine Bradford’s summer studio. Bradford will give […]
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Topsham Police Beat: July 13
Arrests 7/2 at 12:26 p.m. Mark Haggerty, 64, of Pinewoods Road, Lisbon, was arrested by Officer Mathew Bowers on Lewiston Road, and charged with operating under the influence and operating without a license. 7/6 at 7:58 a.m. Tricia Jacobs, 37, of Front Street, was arrested on a warrant by Sgt. Mark Gilliam on Topsham Fair […]
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Topsham Police Beat: July 6
Arrests 6/26 at 6:08 p.m. Charles Messer, 39, of Barrows Drive, was arrested by Officer Gabrielle Mathieu on Barrows Drive on a charge of criminal threatening. 6/27 at 10:08 a.m. Janet McLaughlin, 42, of Warren, was arrested on a warrant by Officer Al Huntington on Topsham Fair Mall Road. Summonses No criminal summonses were reported […]
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Harpswell Police Beat: July 6
No arrests or summonses were reported from June 27-July 3.
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Bath Police Beat: July 6
Arrests 6/27 at 4:01 p.m. Megan Oliver, 28, of Bluff Road, was arrested by Officer John Dietlin on Bluff Road on a charge of violation of conditions of release. 6/28 at 7 a.m. Dustin Jacobs, 31, of York Street, was arrested on a warrant by Officer Richard Ross on Green Street. 6/28 at 6:31 p.m. […]
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Brunswick Police: July 6
Arrests 6/28 at 5:08 p.m. Tod M. Thibeault, 61, of Turner Street, was arrested at Cumberland Farms on Pleasant Street by Officer Joshua Bernier on an outstanding warrant from another agency and charges of criminal trespassing and violating condition of release. 6/28 at 11:35 p.m. Namgyal Dorjee, 36, of Congress Street in Portland, was arrested at Maine […]