HARPSWELL — Some of the town’s critical infrastructure is vulnerable to rising seas, according to a new report. The report, “Harpswell Coastal Flooding Risk Assessment,” prepared by the Midcoast Council of Governments, is the culmination of a project started in January. At a workshop earlier this year held by the town, attendees indicated they were most concerned […]

BRUNSWICK — Enock Mukadi spent the first 20 years of his life in a town called Mwene Ditu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He spent the last year in Brunswick, where he has found a way to make sense of the change in the community garden at Crystal Spring Farm. As the sun beat down […]

HARPSWELL — Whether the town will hire a full-time planner again remains unknown four months after Carol Eyerman left to become assistant town planner in Topsham. In the meantime, however, a company led by Eyerman’s husband is assuming the responsibility. At a meeting June 16, members of various town committees expressed a range of views on […]

HARPSWELL — The Maine Department of Marine Resources, charged with regulating the scallop fishery, has never formally studied how shellfish dragging affects the seabed. In the wake of an episode in April, however, there are questions about how dragging metal nets across the sea floor affects the health of the ocean bottom. Scallops are primarily harvested […]

BRUNSWICK — Paintings by artists including Georgia O’Keefe, George Bellows and Albert Bierstadt have a new summer home in Brunswick. An exhibition titled “Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960,” traces the evolution of American night scenes from “the introduction of electricity to the dawn of the Space Age,” according to Bowdoin College Museum of Art […]

BATH — Although it received city approvals for expansion in 2013, the Plant Memorial Home is now proposing a revised project that addresses neighborhood concerns. The 98-year-old Washington Street retirement community, which sits on a 28-acre riverfront campus, plans to submit its proposal to the Planning Board in August. Its board of directors has approved […]

BATH — Jake Korb will know soon enough if he’s made the right career move. The 23-year-old became Maine Street Bath’s new program director June 17. Heritage Days, the city’s annual crowd-drawing Independence Day festival, is this weekend. But Korb has experience with such events, and said he’s had the help of the Bath community […]

TOPSHAM — The sun was bright outside Mt. Ararat Middle School June 26, with music playing and children enjoying healthy snacks and fun games. The perfect setting for the start of the region’s summer food service program. The Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program provides youths with meals during the summer that they would normally receive […]