BATH — Members of Bath Fire Department Local No. 1611 raised $2,216 during the 2015 Fill the Boot campaign to help save and improve the lives of people fighting muscle disease in Maine. Muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other related life-threatening diseases take away the ability to walk, move, smile, talk – and […]

BRUNSWICK — Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School Assistant Principal Joshua Levy has won the Maine Principal Association’s “assistant principal of the year” award. MPA announced its decision Dec. 4, and Levy will be honored at an awards banquet April 28, 2016. The MPA credited Levy with coordinating two exchange programs with HBS’s sister school in Jinhua, […]

BRUNSWICK — The Town Council this week directed staff to move forward with two environmental initiatives pitched at their Dec. 7 meeting. The first is a draft ordinance to ban the sale and use of polystyrene foam packaging in town, part of a broader measure that includes charging a fee on single-use bags. The second is […]

BATH — Bath Iron Works anticipates securing a contract with the Navy to build a sixth DDG-51 destroyer. The agreement stems from a 2002 pact with the Navy that gives BIW another DDG-51 should the Huntington Ingalls shipyard in Mississippi be awarded a contract to construct an amphibious attack ship, according to a Dec. 5 […]

BRUNSWICK — The Planning Board on Tuesday unanimously approved a final application for a new 33-lot subdivision off Old Portland Road. The developer, William Moore, had already received a subdivision permit from the town in 2009 for four residential lots and 14 commercial/industrial lots on the 76-acre property. The addition of more than 30 new residential […]