BRUNSWICK — School Board members expressed several concerns Wednesday about a behavioral intervention system at Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School. They also discussed the wisdom of skills-based grouping for math and literacy at the fourth- and fifth-grade levels, during a workshop meeting on Wednesday night at Maine Street Station. Last year, teachers voted to implement […]

FREEPORT — The Art Guild Gallery will host an inaugural Holiday ArtFest and raffle to benefit Wolfe’s Neck Farm from Friday, Dec. 2, through Sunday, Dec. 4. The Holiday ArtFest will take place at 140 Main St., next to Siano’s Restaurant. The gallery will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and […]

FREEPORT — The Maine Clammers Association will host a steamed clam supper on Saturday, Dec. 3, from 5-7 p.m. to raise money for the 2011 Santa Fund. Proceeds from the dinner at the Freeport Masonic Lodge on Mallet Drive will buy gifts and food for coastal residents. Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for […]

PORTLAND — Young, local actors will perform in “A Celtic Christmas” hosted by AIRE Theater, the American Irish Repertory Ensemble, Maine’s Irish Theater Company. The holiday performances run through Sunday, Dec. 11, at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard, Portland. Performers include Evan Laukli, 13, of Merriconeag School in Freeport, and Grier Miskell, 11, who is […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — State Sen. Cynthia Dill, D-Cape Elizabeth, has launched a group called Friends of the Maine Woods to build support for a proposed Maine Woods National Park near Millinocket. In the process, she has become a lightning rod for northern Maine residents who oppose the park proposal. Roxanne Quimby, an environmentalist and founder […]

BRUNSWICK — Southern Maine Community College’s Brunswick Landing campus is expanding with the addition this week of 10 acres and three buildings. The Maine Community College System’s board of trustees formally accepted the deeds to the new property on Wednesday. The college now owns five buildings and 20 acres at the former Brunswick Naval Air […]

BRUNSWICK — U.S. Navy representatives will update the public on environmental clean-up and property transfers at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station at a Dec. 7  meeting. The year-end meeting of the Restoration Advisory Board will include staffers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Maine Department of Environmental Protection and the Navy providing a summary […]

BRUNSWICK — Many Maine Street stores were hopping on Nov. 26, but not because of an American Express-sponsored Small Business Saturday campaign. By giving card holders gift cards and credits to use at small businesses that take American Express, the company was hoping to lure shoppers away from malls and back to local stores on […]

BATH — The City of Ships is serving up another season of holiday festivities through the end of the year. As part of Main Street Bath’s “An Old Fashioned Christmas” the streets will sing the three Fridays before Christmas, Dec. 9, 16 and 23. Carolers can climb aboard a trolley at City Hall every 30 […]

FALMOUTH — A Depot Road resident was arrested Tuesday after police said they discovered 11 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $40,000 in her apartment. Kellyjean Kelley, 47, was charged with trafficking scheduled drugs and taken to Cumberland County Jail in Portland. In 2006, Kelley was convicted of unlawful possession of a […]