Arrests No summonses or arrests were reported from May 15-21.

BRUNSWICK — Four years after the doors opened on Ash Point Road, Harpswell Coastal Academy will graduate its charter class June 9. For those eight students, it means leaving a school that has yet to exist without them – a school they helped to create. “We started without even chairs, and now we have two buildings,” […]

BATH — The Maine Board of Education unanimously approved the Wing Farm business park as the site of a new Morse High School and Bath Regional Career and Technical Center, according to a Regional School Unit 1 press release. The May 10 decision followed the unanimous approval of the site in an April 11 straw poll of […]

TOPSHAM — Hearing John Dever explain the greatest rewards and challenges of his job makes it clear why he was recently named Sagadahoc County Teacher of the Year. The greatest reward is when former students come back to visit his Mt. Ararat High School classroom and relate to the social studies teacher something they learned […]

BATH — The City Council is due Wednesday, June 7, to vote on a $15.7 million municipal budget. A hearing May 17 on next year’s spending plan drew no members of the public, City Manager Bill Giroux said the following day. Councilors at that meeting also granted unanimous first passage of an ordinance to borrow […]

BRUNSWICK — The Planning Board on Tuesday night unanimously approved a 10-unit housing subdivision on upper Maine Street. Chairman Charles Frizzles praised the development as an “innovative approach” to comply with the town’s Comprehensive Plan, which encourages higher residential density in the town’s growth zone. “This is exactly the kind of thing we’re looking for,” he […]

HARPSWELL — In the weeks leading up to the Memorial Day weekend opening, Peg Robinson, the longtime cashier at Holbrooks Lobster Wharf & Grille, has been getting calls on her cell phone from across the country. “California, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,” Robinson said Monday, scrolling through her phone while sitting by the window of the […]

BATH — Midcoast towns will celebrate Memorial Day with parades on Monday, May 29. Brunswick and Topsham will hold a joint parade, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in Topsham on the plaza at Town Hall and ending in Brunswick on the Town Mall. Led by World War II Navy veteran Alice Johnson, the parade will begin […]