As I write this column on yet another cold, rainy day, I can’t help but wonder what weather is in store for Memorial Day weekend. Will it be warm enough to grill or should I serve yet another oven meal? I decided on foil packets because these lovely pouches full of deliciousness can be cooked […]
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Bath museum dives into 'Shipwrecks & Salvage'
BATH — Traveling along U.S. Route 1 as a youth, seeing the wrecked schooners Hesper and Luther Little mired on the Wiscasset shore, struck a chord with Chris Timm. “Each year they’d be listing more and more, and maybe have one fewer mast,” the Maine Maritime Museum curator of exhibits said May 15. “We talk […]
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Sande's Picks: CSAs connect consumers, local food producers
Community-supported agriculture programs, or CSAs, allow consumers to buy seasonal foods directly from local farmers and producers. When consumers purchase a “share” of a farmer’s output they receive a weekly portion of the harvest. That weekly box or bag of goods is fresh and varied and allows the farmer and customer to get to know […]
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Coastal History: Fantasy, fact collide on the high seas
I was born and raised in the City of Ships. While I enjoy seeing the destroyers and other ships that Bath Iron Works builds, I have always loved the old wooden sailing vessels, and part of me is sad that I was born too late to enjoy them. Many thousands of them were built in […]
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Bath council to vote on $16.6M city budget
BATH — Next year’s proposed $16.6 million budget – up about $751,000, or 4.7% from current spending – goes to a City Council vote Wednesday, June 5. With hikes in non-tax revenues like interest income, revenue sharing and sewer fees offsetting expenditures, the municipal portion of fiscal year 2020 taxes is due to decline 0.42 percent (about […]
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Brunswick, Topsham, Bath, Harpswell prep for Memorial Day events
BRUNSWICK — Topsham, Brunswick, Harpswell and Bath are planning a full morning of events on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27. Topsham and Brunswick’s joint parade units will begin to line up at Monument Place at 8:15 a.m. Following an 8:45 a.m. observance there, the parade will move down Main Street toward Brunswick at 9 a.m., […]
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Topsham Town Meeting OKs budget, pot policies
TOPSHAM — Town Meeting on Wednesday ratified a $12.7 million municipal budget along with a set of rules governing marijuana businesses. The 202 registered voters – about 2.5% of the town’s approximately 7,800 – also approved an update to the 2005 Comprehensive Plan during the nearly 3 1/2-hour meeting at the Mt. Ararat High School Commons. The […]
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Topsham Police Beat: May 17
Arrests No arrests were reported from May 6-13. Summonses 5/7 at 9:10 p.m. Mark Voight, 61, of Boothbay Harbor, was issued a summons by Sgt. Robert Ramsay on Main Street on a charge of operating after suspension. 5/8 at 6:30 a.m. Robin Stidworthy, 57, of Simpsons Point Road, Brunswick, was issued a summons by Sgt. […]
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Brunswick Police Beat: May 17
Arrests 5/10 at 4:52 p.m. Trisha Fontaine, 40, of Gardiner Road, Wiscasset, was arrested on a warrant by Officer Whitney Burns on Tibbetts Drive. 5/10 at 6 p.m. Lewis Johnson, 52, of Bridge Road, was arrested by Officer Cory Iles on Tibbetts Drive on a charge of operating under the influence. 5/10 at 9:15 p.m. […]
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Bath Police Beat: May 17
Arrests No arrests were reported from May 7-13. Summonses 5/9 Tre Pearson, 26, of Drayton Road, was issued a summons by Detective Sgt. Andrew Booth in West Bath on a charge of failure to comply with the Sex Offender Act. 5/9 Richard Holbrook, 61, of Richardson Street, was issued a summons by Officer John Dietlin […]