“What we’re trying to do is mimic nature,” Joe Grady says.
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State seeks input on plan to memorialize Frank J. Wood Bridge
BRUNSWICK — Residents of Brunswick and Topsham are being encouraged by the Maine Department of Transportation to comment on a proposal to install interpretive panels at the new Frank J. Wood Bridge. After years of pushback from a preservation group called Friends of Frank J. Wood Bridge, the decision was made by MDOT a year […]
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Tedford Housing honors standout volunteers
BRUNSWICK — A woman who “adopts” families staying at the local shelter was among several people recognized June 17 at Tedford Housing’s annual meeting. Also honored at the event that featured remarks by former Maine first lady Mary Herman were a local public policy advocate and a Bowdoin College student. Patty Biggs of Brunswick began by […]
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Dog bites girl’s face in Topsham
TOPSHAM — Police responded to a Katie Lane home Wednesday morning after a dog bit a 5-year-old Brunswick girl. The dog’s owners were babysitting the child, who was reportedly petting the 1-year-old German shepherd mixed breed, when it bit her, causing severe lacerations to her face, according to a Topsham Police press release. Animal Control […]
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Bath aging survey reveals concern about independence
BATH — The results of a survey of residents by Age-Friendly Communities of the Lower Kennebec are eye-opening, and sometimes sad. Sixty percent of those who responded expect they will have to modify their home in order to stay. Many worry about whether they’ll even have enough funds to sustain their home, and are concerned about […]
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Bath seeks input on traffic changes for 2 streets
BATH — The latest in a series of proposed traffic remedies for Richardson Street and Western Avenue go to a public meeting next week. The City Hall gathering will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 26. It follows a November 2018 input-gathering workshop at which a variety of temporary traffic-calming measures – speed tables and raised […]
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Launch in Bath a year away for reconstructed colonial ship
BATH — Sporting a bushy gray beard, a tattoo and earrings, Rob Stevens looks the part of a man who has built a few ships in his day. He is head shipwright of the Virginia, the reconstruction of a vessel of that name built at the Popham Colony in modern-day Phippsburg in 1607-1608. For more […]
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Coastal History: Civil Air Patrol defends, responds, educates
Since the beginning of World War II, there has been an extra pair of eyes watching each ship launch at Bath Iron Works. It might be hard to take your eyes off a brand new warship as it glides down the Kennebec, but keep your eyes on the sky during the next launch. Somewhere up […]
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Cooking at the Cove: Something’s in the cupboard
After a day and a half of doing nothing but writing, that social, hospitable feeling came over me – the urge that I sometimes get when I’ve spent too much time alone. I knew the remedy was to invite a friend over for supper that very evening, but I didn’t feel like going to the […]
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Over Easy: With apologies to the recreational boaters
I grew up a thousand miles from the nearest ocean, on the second largest river system in the world, but during that time I knew nothing about boats. Then when I graduated high school at 17 I enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard, where I spent six months active duty and eight years in the […]