BRUNSWICK — After a local five-year moratorium ended, the Town Council voted Monday to allow the installation of outdoor wood boilers that meet state emissions standards. The council banned the installation of outdoor wood boilers in 2007 after some residents complained of headaches, nausea and odors stemming from their neighbors’ boilers. According to Northeast States […]

BATH — Sagadahoc Preservation will present “Victorian Furniture: Design Run Amok or Inspired Creativity?” on Sunday, March 25. Nancy Carlisle, senior curator at Historic New England, will give the lecture at the Winter Street Center, 880 Washington St., at 4 p.m. Her talk will look at the ups and downs of Victorian furniture design. Carlisle […]

SCARBOROUGH — The Planning Board gave preliminary approval last week to the first phase of a 40-unit apartment complex expansion in the Dunstan neighborhood.  But the approval is conditional on the developer continuing to work out a plan for access to his property that doesn’t involve a new driveway on Martin Avenue or Broadturn Road, […]

HARPSWELL — Details and differing opinions are emerging about a proposed marine-themed charter school as the project gains momentum. For the past few months, the Harpswell Coastal Academy’s advisory committee has been holding public forums on the plan for a public charter school for 280 students in grades six through 12. The vision is for […]

BATH — The area’s only legislative primary will be held June 12 to determine the Democratic candidate in state House District 62. The incumbent, Rep. Michael Clarke, D-Bath, is not seeking a second term. Kyle Rogers, a Bath city councilor, is the sole Republican in the race, while Bath residents Jennifer DeChant and Paul Johnson […]

BATH — The city is looking for artists and art students to add color to downtown. This year’s “Banners Over Bath” theme celebrates the city being one of 10 semifinalists in the nationwide Great American Main Street competition. Winners are to be announced April 2. Banners are at the Main Street Bath office, 15 Commercial […]

SCARBOROUGH — Supporters of a plan to partner with Habitat for Humanity to build workforce housing on town-owned land got a closer look last week at the site and the projected cost. The 20-acre parcel off Broadturn road between Saratoga Lane and the Maine Turnpike is a somewhat damp field, with trees sparsely scattered throughout the […]

Sternman Zach Drehobl, left, and Capt. Jim Barclay of the F/V Lorelei haul a lobster trap lost in 2007 on Tuesday morning as part of a “Gear Grab” sponsored by the nonprofit Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation on Harpswell Sound. The project provides grant funding to lobstermen who volunteer to recover some of the thousands […]

HARPSWELL — After months of work, the town’s newest public gathering place is open. The Ash Point Community Center, housed in the former library of the shuttered West Harpswell School, is part library, part study hall and part place to hang out. The Center is the brainchild of a small group of Harpswell Neck residents […]

FREEPORT — Dozens of shellfishermen gathered at twilight Tuesday in the parking lot of Town Hall, grilling cheeseburgers as children and grandchildren played in an early spring breeze. When the clammers went inside for a Town Council hearing on the 2012 capital improvements budget, they asked councilors and the public for help. “We’re clammers, we […]