Hearing set on Bowdoin College zoning request BRUNSWICK — Nearly seven months after the Town Council terminated negotiations for a large tax deal with the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, it unanimously approved the first phase of a new one Monday night. The council also deliberated over a zoning change request from Bowdoin College that has created […]
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Groups seek to shut down dam turbines, save Atlantic salmon
BANGOR — Two citizen conservation groups last week asked a federal judge to order the temporary shutdown of hydroelectric turbines, including one in Brunswick, that they say will threaten thousands of endangered Atlantic salmon when those fish try to migrate out of the Kennebec and Androscoggin rivers this spring. According to a press release from […]
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Brunswick inn considered for senior housing project
BRUNSWICK — After sitting on the market for more than a year, the Captain Daniel Stone Inn is being considered for use as senior housing. Although nothing is definite, John Hodge, Brunswick Housing Authority executive director, Tuesday said BHA is exploring the possibility of such a project. “For reasons beyond my understanding, it seems as […]
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Bath school advances to 1-act play state round
BATH — Morse High School’s production in this year’s One-Act Play Competition, which centers around a video store that wants nothing to do with DVDs and Blu-Ray, won the regional round March 8 and now advances to the state level. Camden Hills Regional High School hosts that round on Friday, March 22. Morse, which performed […]
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Clam aid: Freeport council delays appropriation
FREEPORT — The town’s shellfish industry will have to wait until the April 2 Town Council meeting to have money approved for a program aimed at re-establishing clams in the area. The program is part of the town’s effort to bolster the shrinking clam population. But councilors on Tuesday postponed the item after an hour-long […]
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Falmouth schools seek 4.5% budget increase
FALMOUTH — The school superintendent said Tuesday that despite changes in state funding, the budget committee has been able to produce a spending plan with modest increases that doesn’t pass significant cost to taxpayers. Superintendent Barbara Powers and her leadership committee presented the fiscal year 2014 budget to the School Board at a March 15 workshop. […]
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Voters OK new RSU 1 cost-sharing formula
BATH — A new cost-sharing formula that will assess the five member communities of Regional School Unit 1 on a per-pupil basis passed, 580-138, in a district referendum Tuesday, according to unofficial numbers. Bath approved the change, 190-6. Arrowsic voted 82-1 for the formula, and Phippsburg, OK’d it 270-2. The new formula was defeated in […]
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Topsham town budget could increase 4.8%
TOPSHAM — The municipal budget, which goes to a public vote in May, could rise to $8.5 million next year, a 4.8 percent increase. The fiscal 2014 budget, including elements like the town’s assessment from School Administrative District 75 and Sagadahoc County costs – estimated to be $7.8 million and $1.4 million, respectively – could […]
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Freeport lawmaker joins effort to ban BPA
FREEPORT — The House District 106 state representative is the latest legislator to join the effort to ban toxic chemicals in food packaging. Rep. Sara Gideon, D-Freeport, who also represents Pownal, is sponsoring a bill directing the Department of Environmental Protection to study the availability of food packaging that does not contain the pervasive and […]
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Yarmouth school chief vacancy draws nearly 2 dozen applicants
YARMOUTH — About 20 candidates have submitted applications to the School Committee for the vacant superintendent of schools job. A School Department search committee will review the applications in the next few weeks with assistance from a consulting firm, Future Management Systems, hired to help select a new superintendent. “We’ve gotten a really great candidate […]