HARPSWELL — The town is accepting applications from groups that want to use West Harpswell School during the winter. Interested organizations must disclose how much they will use the school, for what purpose, and for how long. They also have to estimate utility usage, the number of participants and the benefit to the community of […]

BATH — One man was injured and a business and adjacent building sustained damage totalling about $150,000 in a fire Tuesday afternoon. The blaze, reported at 12:18 p.m., broke out at RVI, 735 Middle St. Roger Love, an RVI employee from Bath, received second- and third-degree burns and was taken to Mid Coast Hospital in […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — The Planning Board has taken the first step in its review of a proposal to redevelop Rudy’s on the Cape. The board voted unanimously Tuesday that the project application is complete. The next steps will include a site walk on Friday, Nov. 18, and a site plan review and public hearing in […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — More streetlights in the city are slated to be eliminated in the second phase of a cost-saving plan that saw more than 100 lights decommissioned in 2009. The Planning Department plans to pull the plug on 184 streetlights in the Loveitt’s Field, Meetinghouse Hill, Pleasantdale and Stanwood Park neighborhoods. The city estimates […]

Dave Hillman of Brunswick rows on the Androscoggin River on Saturday morning, Nov. 12, as unseasonably warm temperatures created conditions more like late summer than mid-fall.

SOUTH PORTLAND — Councilor Patti Smith will be the city’s next mayor. Smith, who represents District 2, was unopposed for re-election to her second council term on Nov. 8. No other councilor was nominated or campaigned to be mayor. Councilors will formally elect Smith on Dec. 5. She will replace Mayor Rosemarie De Angelis, who […]

BATH — Neither the victorious challengers nor the defeated incumbents sensed any unusual amount of voter dissatisfaction in last week’s Bath City Council and Topsham Board of Selectmen elections. Meadow Rue Merrill narrowly defeated two-term incumbent Bath Ward 1 City Councilor James Omo, 218-210. “I really do feel like people took a chance on someone […]

BATH — Hyde School’s plan to build a new dormitory ran into a speed bump Tuesday at the Planning Board. The private high school’s request for site plan approval was tabled while the board awaits more information on how Hyde will mitigate storm water flow from the new building into the city’s combined sewer system. […]

BATH — Who is featured in this year’s Morse High Bazaar? The question and the answer are the same. MoHiBa, as the school’s time-honored annual variety show is better known, pays homage this year to “Doctor Who,” the British science fiction series whose hero has been traveling time and space via a London police box […]

FREEPORT — In the aftermath of a tumultuous election that ousted two Town Council incumbents, some residents say they are looking for a more unified, concise and civil council. More than 50 percent of residents voted in the off-year election and ultimately elected two new councilors, Kate Arno in District 2 and Kristina Egan in […]