BRUNSWICK — The School Board overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to convert the former Times Record building on Industry Road into a combined bus garage and office space. The vote came in a special meeting Wednesday about school facilities, where the board learned the cost to renovate the building, which is empty and owned by the […]

HARPSWELL — Voters at the annual Town Meeting in March will choose between two candidates for the Board of Selectmen and two for road commissioner. Selectmen Chairman Elinor Multer is seeking re-election against C. Matthew Rich. The current road commissioner, Bob Venard, is stepping down, and Paul Standridge and Ronald Ponziani are vying to take […]

SCARBOROUGH — Need cash? You’ll soon have a new way to get some when a young pawn entrepreneur opens his second shop at Dunstan Corner. Cory Poulin of Saco is preparing to open Golden Tech Trading Post at 582B Route 1. Poulin also owns and operates Platinum Pawn & Loan in Westbrook. Poulin said he feels […]

BRUNSWICK — More special education students, fewer teacher aides, and a lack of funding for special education and behavioral management is challenging teachers and administrators at every school in town. But nowhere is the impact being felt as severely as on the kindergarten and first-grade students at Coffin Elementary School. “Behavior programs are at capacity […]

SCARBOROUGH — Town Council Vice Chairwoman Judith Roy has pleaded guilty in Cumberland County Superior Court to one charge of drunken driving. In a settlement approved by Judge Richard Mulhern on Jan. 13, Roy, 68, of Second Avenue, pleaded guilty to one charge of operating under the influence and paid a $500 fine plus $140 […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — A Town Council subcommittee is recommending the town cap the number of tenants and guests allowed to inhabit seasonal home rentals. The Ordinance Committee has discussed the issue since last fall. Its unanimous decision last week sends the discussion back to the full Town Council.  The recommendation is to limit the number […]

BATH — Police responded Wednesday morning to the city’s second death in two weeks by an apparent drug overdose. They said they received a call at 8:34 a.m. from a relative who found a 68-year-old woman dead at her 44 Court St. home. Lt. Stan Cielinski declined to identify the woman. “Right now we suspect […]

BATH — Some might say electronic devices like iPads are supplanting traditional print media, but at Patten Free Library they go hand in hand. A $3,000 grant from the Alfred M. Senter Fund in Brunswick has allowed the Summer Street facility to purchase six Apple iPads, which are being used in the library’s early literacy […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — A police officer’s cruiser door was clipped by an allegedly drunken driver on Jan. 18. A Police Department press release said Officer Rocco Navarro was conducting a traffic stop on Broadway, near Scammon Street. As Navarro was getting out of his car, a Jeep Wrangler clipped his open door and drove off. Another […]

TOPSHAM — Planning Director Rich Roedner is seeking input from the Maine Department of Transportation about who should build a riverside walking trail. The Androscoggin Riverwalk project is estimated to cost about $20,000 more than anticipated, and town officials have been looking into ways to save money. Having town crews build the trail instead of […]