BRUNSWICK — The Town Council on Monday gave the go-ahead for staff to apply for a state grant on behalf of East Boothbay-based boat-building company Washburn & Doughty. The company last month announced it would move some operations to Brunswick Landing. But it needs to make more than $1 million in improvements at 54 Orion St., […]

HARPSWELL — When winter ends and the spring sun makes the days longer and warmer, the American woodcock comes back to Maine to mate. And in Harpswell, he is watched. On a recent evening, eight people drove into the damp dirt parking lot of the Harpswell Heritage Land Trust’s Curtis Farm Preserve, just as the sun […]

BRUNSWICK — The School Department’s proposed budget for fiscal 2017 went to the Town Council last week, but it’s likely the nearly $38 million spending plan will be reduced before it is adopted May 26. The proposed budget is now a 3.6 percent increase over this year’s spending. Combined with the proposed town and county budgets, it would […]

BATH — The Regional School Unit 1 Board of Directors on Monday unanimously approved a $28.3 million budget for next year. The spending plan includes three minor additions. The first two – about $7,000 for a lacrosse program at Bath Middle School, and about $10,000 for an additional day of nurses at Phippsburg Elementary School – […]

BRUNSWICK — St. John the Baptist Catholic Church is proposing a $4.75 million, 14,700-square-foot event center. Although the idea for the project at 39 Pleasant St. has been around for about 10 years, according to parishioner Charlie Wiercinski, it went before the Planning Board for the first time Tuesday, April 26. The preliminary plans, submitted to the board […]