PORTLAND — The debate over Central Maine Power Co.’s “smart” electrical meters is headed to the state’s highest court. A group of CMP customers filed the appeal last week with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. They claim the Maine Public Utilities Commission, which dismissed a request for an investigation into the safety of wireless meters, […]

YARMOUTH — Yarmouth Senior Housing has dropped its plan for a new housing development on Mill Street. Although there was support for affordable senior housing  in concept, the Mill Street location met stiff public opposition. Margaret Downing, president of the private, nonprofit corporation that also owns Bartlett Circle, said the proposed development on two acres […]

Richard Harris leads the first voters into the polls at 7 a.m. Tuesday at Freeport High School on Holbrook Street. Besides voting on statewide questions on same-day voter registration and gambling, and a Cumberland County Civic Center bond issue, voters in Freeport are electing local office holders.

PORTLAND — Trish McAllister, the city’s neighborhood prosecutor, says the graffiti ordinance passed in July is working well – at least in terms of getting city employees to report and remove graffiti from public property. McAllister said there have been 35 reports of graffiti on public property, with the majority of reports generated by city […]

Thompson defeats School Board incumbent Jones BRUNSWICK — District 7 Town Councilor Benet Pols on Tuesday defeated William Dana and Byron Watson to be the next at-large councilor. In the School Board at-large election, newcomer William Thompson defeated incumbent Jack Jones. Just over 6,500 Brunswick residents cast ballots on Tuesday, or about 44 percent of […]

PORTLAND — The Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ on Sunday launched a $4 million capital campaign to renovate and sustain the nation’s oldest working municipal pipe organ. The group has already raised $2.2 million towards the renovation – a sum that includes a $1.25 million bond being financed by the city, which plans to pay down […]

PORTLAND — For decades, railroad conductors have walked the aisles of moving trains, punching passengers’ tickets. The routine is probably as old as passenger trains themselves. For Wayne Davis, founder of the TrainRiders/Northeast rail advocacy group, the discarded hole punches told a story. “A lot of things in my lifetime have changed,” the 76-year-old Brunswick […]

About 100 protesters gathered on the Mall in Brunswick on Saturday, Nov. 5, to show solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. They made signs and then marched down Maine Street to Bank of America to criticize corporate greed. The event was organized by Greater Brunswick PeaceWorks, Pax Christi Maine, Bowdoin Peace Activists, Peace Action Maine and […]

FREEPORT — Through the efforts of some dedicated theater supporters, a benefit concert will be held at the Freeport Performing Arts Center on Holbrook Street to help launch a series of high-quality local performances. Freeport Performing Arts will present Symphony-Plus at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 19, as the inaugural concert to support the launch […]

Jessica Bishop, left, of Town & Country Credit Union, Mike Rizzo of the North Deering Neighborhood Association, Linda Halleran of the credit union and Dave Libby of Town & Country were among the volunteers who gathered last week to plant 700 bulbs in a new Pink Tulip Project garden at the intersection of Washington Avenue […]