BRUNSWICK — Plans for a new assisted-living facility at the former Skolfield House on Cumberland Street received final approval from the Planning Board Tuesday night. Brunswick resident Amy McLellan can now begin remodeling the building, which has been vacant since October, into what she and contractor Dick Campbell call “the next generation of assisted living.” Plans […]

BRUNSWICK — The Town Council, after pushback from the School Board, restored $85,000 to the School Department budget before approving a $61.5 million fiscal year 2017 town budget. The reversal on the $85,000 reduction came Thursday, May 26, the night after two School Board members threatened to oppose the upcoming school budget referendum unless the money was […]

HARPSWELL — The task of removing a collapsed pump house from the pier at Mitchell Field will go to the Prock Marine Co. of Rockland. The Board of Selectmen chose the company’s bid, at a cost of $75,000, at a May 25 meeting. Prock’s was one of four bids submitted to the town. It was the […]

BATH — In the course of about 50 minutes Tuesday, 50 registered voters approved a $28.3 million budget for next year in Regional School Unit 1. The district budget meeting, held at Bath Middle School, elicited few comments from the public. It will be followed by a budget validation referendum on the spending plan for […]

TOPSHAM — Approximately 40 voters from the four towns in School Administrative District 75 approved a $37.6 million district budget May 26. The district budget meeting, held at the Orion Performing Arts Center, was the first in a two-step public approval process. Next year’s spending plan must also be ratified in a budget validation referendum […]

HARPSWELL — This year’s June ballot includes a school budget decision, a local referendum, and no primary election contests. School Administrative Unit 75 administrators unanimously endorsed a $37.6 million fiscal year 2017 budget May 12. That budget was scheduled to go to voters at a district budget meeting in Topsham May 26. It must also be […]

BRUNSWICK — Plans are in motion to renovate the former Skolfield House assisted living facility on Cumberland Street, which has been vacant since last October. Brunswick resident Amy McLellan said May 24 that she is hoping to close on the acquisition of the property by the end of June, and begin renovating the building into a […]

BRUNSWICK — Voters on Tuesday, June 14, will decide whether to approve the proposed School Department budget and select candidates in primaries for the state Legislature and U.S. Congress. The proposed school budget stands at about $37.5 million, after being reduced by about $500,000 in a series of cuts by the Town Council. The council was […]