FALMOUTH — Maine Audubon on Monday announced the appointment of Ole Amundsen III as executive director. Amundsen most recently served as program manager for the national land trust, The Conservation Fund. He replaces Charles Gauvin at Maine Audubon. “I am elated to join Maine Audubon,” Amundsen said in a Maine Audubon press release. “I grew up […]
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Giving Back The John and Patricia Klingenstein Fund and the Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc., have donated $250,000 to support Mercy’s pediatrics program, which will now be known as the Dr. Harry E. Davis Pediatric Center. Davis received his medical training from Tufts Medical School in 1919, and returned to Portland in the early […]
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Maritime mystery: Bath museum tackles origin of 1940s ship steering wheel
BATH — It may be time to call Sherlock Holmes. An aged steering wheel section from an unknown ship, recently found on a cleaning mission in the basement of City Hall, is now in the hands of the Maine Maritime Museum, where authorities on local seafaring history are unraveling the mystery of where the machinery […]
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Rail advocates: Brunswick train barn debate over
BRUNSWICK — The neighborhood group that fought construction of an Amtrak maintenance and layover facility in west Brunswick will not challenge the facility’s stormwater permit in Superior Court. The decision means construction of the estimated $12.7 million terminal, which proponents say is needed to provide more efficient and possibly expanded passenger rail service in Maine, can […]
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Bath council keeps high school project on track
BATH — In a straw poll Wednesday, the City Council unanimously supported Regional School Unit 1 exploring construction of a new high school on one of two city-owned properties. The school district has been in talks with city officials about constructing a new high school either adjacent to Bath Middle School, or at Wing Farm […]
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Charles W. Chesnutt, 83: Navy man who served at the South Pole
BRUNSWICK — Charles Willard Chesnutt, 83, of Brunswick, died Jan. 3, at Mid Coast Hospital with his family by his side. He was born May 28, 1935. in Salem, Massachusetts, a son of Willard and Jennie (Crosman) Chesnutt. Chesnutt grew up in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, but enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 18. […]
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Mid-Coast Meetings: Jan. 8
Brunswick Sat. 1/9 9 a.m. Council Retreat Outdoor Leadership Center, Bowdoin College Mon. 1/11 5:30 p.m. Brunswick Topsham Water Board 266 River Rd., Topsham Tues. 1/12 4:30 p.m. Teen Center Advisory Committee 35 Union St. Tues. 1/12 7 p.m. Planning Board TH Wed. 1/13 10 a.m. Staff Review TH Wed. 1/13 3 p.m. Town Commons […]
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Bath Police Beat: Jan. 8
Arrests 12/27/15 at 1:23 a.m. Avery Hoddinott, 30, of Summer Street, Hallowell, was arrested by Cpl. Jason Aucoin on Commercial Street on charges of operating under the influence, violating conditions of release and unlawful possession of scheduled drugs. 1/3 at 5:30 p.m. Rocky Ross, 26, of Tower Circle, was arrested by Officer Mark Steele on […]
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Topsham Police Beat: Jan. 8
Arrests 1/1 at 5:05 p.m. Benjamin Steers, 45, of Riverview Drive, was arrested by Officer Donald Cowles on Riverview Drive on an outstanding warrant from another agency. Summonses 12/27/15 at 10:58 a.m. Linwood Greenleaf, 45, of Front Street, was issued a summons by Sgt. Robert Ramsay on Bridge Street on charges of assault and criminal […]
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Brunswick Police Beat: Jan. 8
Arrests 12/29 at 6:58 p.m. Andrea Manousos, 47, of Dolphin Lane, Harpswell, was arrested on Baribeau Drive by Officer Jerod Verrill on a charge of domestic violence terrorizing. 12/30 at 12:29 p.m. Mindy J. Wright, 31, of Wardtown Road, Freeport, was arrested on Elm Street by Officer Kenneth Bailey on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking. […]