BRUNSWICK — The weather may have been dreary Wednesday afternoon, but that didn’t stop Gelato Fiasco from hosting a 12-hour party – balloon animals and singing included. April 25 marked the shop’s annual “Scoop-A-Thon” to benefit the Brunswick Area Teen Center, when the Maine Street store donates all sales beyond its daily seasonal average to the youth center. Portland […]

HARPSWELL — Despite a Town Meeting vote to demolish the Mitchell Field water tower last month, the fight to save it may not be over. Selectmen were informed April 19 that a 400-signature petition challenging the demolition vote would be delivered this week, according to Robert McIntyre, a member of the Harpswell nonprofit Friends of Mitchell […]

HARPSWELL — Despite a Town Meeting vote to demolish the Mitchell Field water tower last month, the fight to save it may not be over. Selectmen were informed April 19 that a 400-signature petition challenging the demolition vote would be delivered this week, according to Robert McIntyre, a member of the Harpswell nonprofit Friends of Mitchell […]

BRUNSWICK — Two land trusts have raised nearly half the funds needed to preserve land at Woodward Point. On April 16, U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, announced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Coast Wetlands Conservation Program would provide $570,000 to preserve 96 acres at the site. The conservation effort was launched last summer by the […]

BRUNSWICK — As the School Department continues to plan a $28 million elementary school on Jordan Avenue, efforts are also being made to preserve an unexpected feature in the buildings being replaced: the art. At the April 11 meeting of the School Board, board member William Thompson relayed the progress of the Public Art Subcommittee, which he chairs. […]