TOPSHAM — With a state Project Canopy grant in hand, the town is planning this year to conduct an inventory of its trees. The Board of Selectmen on Jan. 3 unanimously accepted the funding, according to Rod Melanson, Topsham’s natural resource/assistant planner. The program recently aided 21 projects in 19 communities with more than $100,000 […]

BATH — Don MacMillan, who has spent almost 30 years at Hyde School and the past five as headmaster, plans to leave his post at the end of this school year. “I have appreciated the opportunity to provide leadership to the school during the past five years,” he wrote this week to the school community. […]

BATH — The residents of a house deemed unsafe by the city face possible removal from their home, pending a court hearing on the matter scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 17. Alan and Yvonne Orchard of 45 Windjammer Way do not believe repair of the dilapidated 1920 house is an option. They have said they hope […]

HARPSWELL — The Board of Selectmen avoided doubling costs for a culvert repair project by opting to close a residential road for three days later this year. But as Town Administrator Kristi Eiane said, that could be a problem for residents who live on that portion of Bethel Point Road. Repairs of the culvert were […]

BRUNSWICK — Local inventors and visionaries may soon have a place to meet and fabricate their own creations using sophisticated computer technology. Sarah Boisvert, who is a Brunswick resident and co-founder of a Maryland micro-manufacturing company, said she is in talks with a private school to start the Maine Fab Lab, a digital fabrication center […]

BRUNSWICK — The town has enlisted a top legal firm to fight legislation officials say will supersede local control of economic redevelopment at Brunswick Landing. Town Manager Gary Brown on Monday announced the town hired a team of lobbyists from the Preti Flaherty law firm to work at the statehouse in Augusta. The team will […]