BATH — Maine Drug Enforcement agents on Monday arrested a New York man and charged him with selling heroin and crack cocaine. Dashawn Gill, 31, of Brooklyn, New York, was charged with aggravated trafficking in Schedule W drugs. The arrest came after an investigation – conducted by MDEA’s Mid-Coast District Task Force, and officers from […]

BRUNSWICK — A last-minute, multi-million dollar gift from an undisclosed donor has Bowdoin College fast-tracking plans for a new turf field and track at its football field. Residents of Bowker Street, which runs along the southeastern edge of Whittier Field, had mixed reactions to the project and it’s announcement at a Town Council meeting Monday, after […]

BRUNSWICK — A Lewiston school official will become principal of Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School on July 1. The School Board voted 6-0 Tuesday evening to authorize a two-year contract with Heather Blanchard. School Board members Ben Tucker, Jim Grant and Bill Thompson were absent from Tuesday’s closed-door interview and public vote. Blanchard, 36, is a […]

BRUNSWICK — The School Department will host community forums on a proposal to replace Coffin Elementary School with a building on the site of the old Jordan Acres school. Voters will decide whether to borrow $28 million for the locally financed project on June 13. At the forums, school officials will present a summary of the […]

BRUNSWICK — Town Hall hours will change the first week of April. Offices will stay open two hours longer on Thursdays, from 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m, and close early on Fridays, on an 8:30 a.m.- 3 p.m schedule. Monday-Wednesday hours will not change, with offices open from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The new hours are intended to […]

HARPSWELL — Alison Hawkes and David Johnson were re-elected to three-year terms on the School Administrative District 75 Board of Directors at Town Meeting March 11. Hawkes, a former selectman, was appointed by selectmen to the board last August to complete the remainder of the term vacated by Sara Clemens, who resigned a year early. Hawkes […]

BRUNSWICK — Big Brothers Big Sisters Bath/Brunswick is seeking teams for its annual Bowl for Kids’ Sake fundraiser on Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1. Businesses, students, and community members can form teams and register online at firstgiving.com/bbbsbathbrunswick to start gathering pledges. Teams will compete from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. on April 1 at Yankee Lanes in Brunswick. […]

BRUNSWICK – A group of residents has formed a nonprofit to raise money for a $860,000 replacement track at Brunswick High School. “I think the cause is utterly worthy,” Barry Logan, co-founder of RunBrunswick, told the town finance committee March 16. Weeds are growing through the cracks of the 21-year-old track’s peeling surface. While the lesser-worn […]

HARPSWELL — The town’s first full-time harbormaster will retire May 5 after 12 years at a job where he basically wrote the handbook. Jim Hays, a former project manager at Bath Iron Works, was hired in 2005 after the town decided to upgrade the harbormaster to a full-time position. “I’m basically a one-man band,” Hays said […]

BRUNSWICK — The Town Council voted 8-1 Monday to ban single-use plastic bags from most town retailers starting Sept. 1. The council also scheduled an April 10 workshop on a draft of a new zoning ordinance, which had several Zoning Ordinance Rewrite Committee revisions after a series of public forums. The plastic bag ban passed with […]