GRAY — Danielle Marie Lagasse and Christopher Scott Smith, both of Gray, wish to announce their engagement. Lagasse, daughter of Mark and Wendie Lagasse of Glenburn, is a 2006 graduate of John Bapst Memorial High School and a 2010 graduate of the University of Maine in Orono, with a B.S. degree in finance. She is […]

To the editor: The members of the Women’s Alliance of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick ( UUCB) would like to thank Jeff Groleau, owner of Papa Geppetto’s Workshop in Bath, for his generous donation of dollhouse furniture and discounts to our dollhouse project. The completed dollhouse will be available in the community for raffle […]

Bowdoin PLANNING BOARD, Tuesday, 7 p.m., town office. Bowdoinham BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Coombs Municipal Building. COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING COMMITTEE WORKSHOP, Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., Coombs Municipal Building. PLANNING BOARD WORKSHOP, Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Coombs Municipal Building. Brunswick GREATER BRUNSWICK HOUSING AUTHORITY, Tuesday, noon, 12 Stone St., Woodlawn Terrace Conference Room. TEEN CENTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE, […]

History buffs plot Christmas shindig LISBON — The Lisbon Historical Society’s annual Christmas potluck gathering will kick off at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the MTM Center, 18 School St. The event is open to members and their guests. Coffee will be provided. In addition to the potluck supper, the event includes a Yankee Swap. To […]

LISBON — Pioneer Chapter No. 11 Lisbon Falls, Order of the Eastern Star, is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Ancient York Masonic Hall on Route 196. A potluck supper will begin at 6 p. m. The meeting will serve as the chapter’s Christmas celebration. Refreshments will be served after the meeting. […]

BATH Downtown Bath’s annual Holiday Open House will run from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday. “The streets will be lined with luminaries, and downtown Bath shops, galleries, restaurants and banks will stay open until 8 p.m. to welcome shoppers with festive holiday music, refreshments, and one- of- a kind gifts,” according to a release […]

The brief poems of today’s column were written by Edward Nobles of Bangor about his father, who abandoned Nobles’ family. The absence his father left behind was “silent and ominous,” Nobles says, adding: “These two poems are aftershocks.” SENTENCES The sledgehammer cracks like my father’s heavy shouts until the stone starts to break. The sound […]

Alna BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Monday, 6:30 p.m., town hall. Arrowsic SHELLFISH CONSERVATION COMMITTEE, Monday, 5 p.m., town hall. BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Monday, 6 p.m. town hall. Bowdoin BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Monday, 6:30 p.m., town office. PLANNING BOARD, Tuesday, 7 p.m., town office. Bowdoinham BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Coombs Municipal Building. COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING COMMITTEE […]