BRUNSWICK — If meals from Shere Punjab Indian restaurant weren’t enough to satisfy diners’ cravings for Indian food, the restaurant’s owners are now providing the means to create home-cooked meals with a one-stop grocery store. Owner Prakash Gyawali and his wife Rakshya opened Shere Punjab Urban Spice on the restaurant’s second floor at 46 Maine […]

BATH — The total tax assessment to the five communities in Regional School Unit 1 could increase 6.09 percent next year, to $18.4 million. The district’s preliminary fiscal 2014 budget, discussed Monday by the RSU 1 Board of Directors, does not yet state how the assessment would be broken down between Bath, Arrowsic, Phippsburg, West […]

BRUNSWICK — Nearly two years after a fire destroyed the Unitarian Universalist Church, the congregation has been authorized to rebuild on Pleasant Street. The Planning Board on Tuesday unanimously approved the church’s application for a nearly 8,700-square-foot building at 15 Pleasant St. and 5 Middle St. The board also unanimously approved the church’s request to demolish […]

HARPSWELL — A larger-than-expected hike in health insurance costs has increased the total proposed tax increase in School Administrative District 75 to nearly $720,000. The tax increase for the district’s four communities, to cover a gap between revenues and expenses in fiscal year 2014, was previously estimated at nearly $500,000. SAD 75 Superintendent Brad Smith […]

BATH — An artificial turf field planned for several years could become a reality this summer at the Edward J. McMann Outdoor Athletic Complex. Fields for Our Future, the group raising money to install the surface, has about $50,000 left before it reaches its $580,000 goal. Kay Beveridge, who chairs the group with Lu Lozano, […]