BRUNSWICK — A Lewiston man was taken to Portland’s Maine Medical Center with trauma-related injuiries Jan. 5 after his vehicle collided head-on with a dump truck on Old Portland Road.  Police said Jesse Baum, 34, was recuperating in the hospital in fair condition. Baum had been driving north in a 2004 Nissan Sentra on Old Portland Road […]

BATH — A six-month moratorium that would have banned the location and operation of retail marijuana establishments and social clubs narrowly failed to receive first passage from the City Council Wednesday. The panel defeated the proposed ordinance 4-3. Councilors Greg Page, Terry Nordmann, Susan Bauer and James Omo voted against it, while Sean Paulhus, Bernie […]

Arrests 12/27/16 at 8 p.m. Arnold Rice, 45, of Campbells Pond Road, West Bath, was arrested by Officer John Dietlin on Washington Street on a charge of operating under the influence. 12/30/16 at 6:30 p.m. Patrick Gorman, 65, of Congress Avenue, was arrested by Officer John Dietlin on Congress Avenue on a charge of violating […]

BRUNSWICK — Before she retired to Brunswick in 2013, Louise Hudson taught children from ages 4 to 17 for 65 years, in places as far north as Vassalboro, and as far south as Jackson, Mississippi. Her travels make Hudson’s life read like one of the history textbooks that appeared in her classroom. Her memories – of going […]

BRUNSWICK — The Town Council chose new leadership Tuesday at a brief meeting to begin the new year. The School Board, meanwhile, swore in three new members, and elected former Vice Chairwoman Joy Prescott as its new chairwoman. The council narrowly elected Councilor-at-Large Alison Harris as chairwoman, after she received one vote more than former Vice […]

BRUNSWICK — During the first five years it was open, only about five or six teenagers would spend their afternoons at the Brunswick Teen Center on the second floor of the town-owned People Plus building at 35 Union St. Fast forward to its 10th anniversary, and “a slow day is 18 kids,” Stacy Frizzle, executive director of […]

BATH — The Bath Natural Market kept the holiday giving spirit going one day longer last week, donating all gross sales on Dec. 26 to several nonprofit organizations. The 36 Centre St. business accumulated more than $4,700 in sales, which, along with an equal match from an anonymous local donor, totalled approximately $9,400 in donations […]

HARPSWELL — The Harpswell Heritage Land Trust has completed a $550,000 fundraising campaign to create Otter Brook Preserve, a 68-acre wilderness area along Harpswell’s second-largest freshwater stream. Depending on when the trust is able to build a parking lot, a summer or early fall opening is being eyed for the preserve, according to spokeswoman Julia McLeod. “This […]

WEST BATH — The founder of the Midcoast Youth Theater in Brunswick pleaded not guilty Tuesday in West Bath District Court to 16 counts of molesting children at his home in Topsham. Henry Eichman was released on $5,000 cash bail, with conditions that include no contact with any child younger than 16, the court clerk’s […]

BRUNSWICK — Police are warning residents to beware of transient door-to-door vendors. Although they are known to peddle goods and services more frequently in the summer, itinerant vendors are still active in the winter months, police said. “In the spring and summer unlicensed individuals frequently peddle driveway sealing or tree removal services. As the weather is […]