Lady beetles were imported from Pennsylvania to combat the hemlock woolly adelgid infestation affecting eastern hemlock trees in Brunswick and Topsham.
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Superintendent’s Notebook: Class of 2024 took a page from Tom Brady’s playbook
Graduation is always a bittersweet time. We celebrate the accomplishments of the graduating class with great joy while also knowing that these amazing young people are spreading their wings and leaving the nest. The graduation ceremony represents the culmination of 12 years of hard work — from math tests and term papers to pop quizzes […]
Guest column: A restoration experiment at the Brunswick Town Commons
For generations, American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata) fed people and wildlife throughout eastern North America. As many as four billion chestnut trees populated woodlands from northern Florida to southern Maine and west to the Mississippi River. These “Redwoods of the East Coast” filled the forest canopy, towering up to 100 feet with a girth of […]
Just a Little Old: Maine State Music Theatre promises enchanting summer
“Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger, You may see a stranger across a crowded room … “ Some people reading those words will immediately start humming the tune from “Some Enchanted Evening,” the signature song from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s immortal Broadway classic, “South Pacific.” Maine State Music Theatre Artistic Director Curt Dale Clark […]
New Brunswick-area businesses to check out this summer
Here’s five new businesses, ranging from fitness to good eats.
Stories from Maine: A ‘conqueror’ visits Brunswick
It was almost 3 p.m. on a stiflingly hot Aug. 2 in 1865 when a steam-driven train slowly chugged its way to a stop at the train depot in Brunswick. A large crowd gathered, replete with a local band, dignitaries from the state of Maine, the town of Brunswick and many of the students, faculty […]
Spark Cycling’s Plunge for the Funds raises $33,000 for ALS clinic
Spark Cycling Studio celebrated its third anniversary on May 11 with the first annual Plunge for the Funds, a fundraiser to support patients at Mid Coast Hospital’s ALS Clinic. In a nod to the viral 2014 Ice Bucket Challenge, members of the Spark community solicited donations and pledges to submerge in one of three cold […]
Brunswick football hosts signing event
The high school football team signed up 17 new student-athletes on Signing Day.
Intertidal: Apparently, ‘mermaiding’ is a thing
Yes, you can go to school to learn to be a mermaid or merman.