BRUNSWICK —  The School Board received updated costs for building a new school or doing repairs as it decides how to update aging schools. Coffin Elementary School and Brunswick Junior High School were built in 1959, and have never had major renovations, according to a report for the School Department by PDT Architects. The result is […]

HARPSWELL — The Town Office is getting a new roof. Again. It needs a new one because the old roof’s shingles were a “dismal failure,” in the words of Code Enforcement Officer Bill Wells. When the town installed the roof in 2003 as part of the new Town Office project, officials selected a type of organic […]

BRUNSWICK — The Town Council on Monday voted to establish the town’s first boat mooring fees. Beginning next spring, mooring owners will need to pay an annual $50 registration fee if they are residents, or if they have moorings in a commercial or public mooring field. Nonresidents will have to pay $100 to register. The town […]

BRUNSWICK — Police are investigating another reported assault near the Bowdoin College campus, one week after a reported rape at a college-owned Belmont Street residence. Police Department Cmdr. Marc Hagan said police received a call at 8:37 p.m. Tuesday night from a 20-year-old student who reported she was walking toward campus on Potter Street, near the […]

TOPSHAM — A bicycle-pedestrian trail, Lower Village park and roundabout, and pedestrian crossings were among the suggestions residents made to town staff at a Nov. 12 meeting on the town’s Community Fund. Fourteen members of the public attended, setting a record for Community Fund meetings, according to John Shattuck, the economic and community development director. […]

BATH — United Way of Mid Coast Maine missed its campaign goal this year by about $49,000, or 3 percent. But officials are determined to make up the difference. “We’re not done yet,” Executive Director Barbara Reinertsen said in an interview Nov. 13.  This year’s goal was $1.9 million, a little less than the nearly […]

Spectators line the street for the Rolling Slumber Bed Races, part of the Brunswick Downtown Association’s annual Early Bird Sale on Saturday, Nov. 4.

BATH — A Thomaston woman was in critical condition at Maine Medical Center in Portland Tuesday morning after being shot in the head Monday afternoon in a supermarket parking lot, according to the hospital. Chelsea Jones, 22, was shot by her boyfriend, Dylan Grubbs, 23, also of Thomaston, while she sat in the front passenger […]