BRUNSWICK — Jean Skorapa, who has worked in the Brunswick School Department for more than two decades, will be leaving this fall to become assistant superintendent of Regional School Unit 3. She is the only principal Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School has had since it opened in 2011, and the second high-level school staffer to leave […]
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GOP puts Coffin, Watson on Nov. 8 ballot
BRUNSWICK — Republicans in Brunswick and Harpswell legislative districts have nominated replacements for two candidates who dropped out after winning uncontested primaries June 14. A replacement candidate in a third district was not nominated. In state Senate District 24, Tristam Coffin, of Brunswick, was unanimously selected July 14 by a district GOP committee as the […]
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Petitions circulate in Topsham for bag fee, foam container ban
TOPSHAM — Petitions are circulating in town to require November referendums on ordinances that would impose a 5-cent fee on single-use shopping bags and ban polystyrene foam containers. The Bring Your Own Bag Midcoast group has raised both issues in Brunswick and Topsham. The group advocates a nickel fee on “single-use, carry-out plastic and paper […]
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Bath land trust to expand mission of 'LOCAL' garden
BATH — A community garden has an expanded mission and longer calendar under new management by the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust. The city’s “Leading Our Community in Agricultural Learning” garden, or LOCAL for short, for the past several years had been organized under the auspices of Regional School Unit 1, and was used as an […]
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Driver OK after dramatic car accident in Brunswick
BRUNSWICK — A Bath driver crossed the center line and two commercial properties and crashed airborne into the side of a warehouse after losing control of her vehicle on Bath Road July 21, according to a Police Department press release. Lindsay Easterling, 28, was transported to Mid Coast Hospital, where she was discharged the same day, […]
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Republicans pick Coffin for Senate District 24 candidacy
BRUNSWICK — Republicans in state Senate District 24 on July 14 nominated Tristam Coffin, of Brunswick, as the GOP candidate in the election to fill the seat of retiring state. Sen Stan Gerzofsky, D-Brunswick. The move comes after Eric Lusk, of Harpswell, who won an uncontested Republican primary in June, withdrew his candidacy. The district includes […]
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Baxter school may accept private funding
FALMOUTH — A new law allowing Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Governor Baxter School for the Deaf to raise private donations takes effect July 29. The law would allow the school to raise funds from alumni, foundations and others. The school is on Mackworth Island, but MECDHH also serves […]
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Police arrest Bath man after 2 people are stabbed
BATH — Police and the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Bath man Monday evening for allegedly stabbing two people. Brandon Plummer, 34, was charged with elevated aggravated assault and taken to Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset, where he was held on $2,500 bail, according to a Police Department press release Tuesday. Bath police and […]
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Business manager for Topsham, Harpswell schools dies at 57
TOPSHAM — Steve Dyer, business manager of School Administrative District 75 since 2009, died unexpectedly July 20. Superintendent Brad Smith said the 57-year-old Greene resident apparently died overnight, and was found unresponsive the next morning. Calling Dyer “an integral part of our school district” in a statement July 21, Smith said Dyer’s involvement with the […]
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Portland primary election challenges lead to proposed changes in campaign-finance law
AUGUSTA — The Maine Ethics Commission fined losing candidate Rep. Diane Russell $500 on Wednesday for failing to disclose her contribution to her state Senate campaign of a valuable email list. The action closed the books on a series of ethics complaints generated by the recent Portland Democratic Senate primary. But the complaints – two against Russell […]