Pain lingers for the relatives of a Maine man who died with two others when an oil tanker hit their fishing boat.

“When I went to the funeral, nothing was real to me,” said Mark Doughty’s mother, Shirley Doughty Horr. “People kept telling me he was gone,” but it didn’t feel that way.

WISCASSET — The Maine Department of Transportation’s decision to call off plans for a bypass around Wiscasset has revealed mixed feelings about the project that depend largely on geography.

Many merchants in Wiscasset’s historic village, as well as residents in neighboring Edgecomb, welcomed Monday’s announcement because they have always viewed the bypass as threat – to the environment, their neighborhoods or the viability of the local tourism trade.

But a few miles north or south on Route 1, the attitude is different. The traffic bottleneck in Wiscasset – which occurs every summer weekend and on many other days – is seen as an obstacle to the region’s economic growth, discouraging tourists from venturing to the Boothbay peninsula and making truck deliveries slower and more expensive.

AUGUSTA — For sale: a 183-year-old brick farmhouse in Augusta, once used by the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services. This fixer-upper is priced to sell at $109,900. The owner is the state of Maine. Prospective buyers will have to wait, though. The state has suspended all real estate sales until it develops policies for […]

‘Unwinding’ the property sale to State Prison Warden Patricia Barnhart could end up in court.

Sale rules will be clarified and a probe is still possible after the purchase by the prison chief is ruled illegal.

The public never had a chance to bid on a state-owned parcel in Thomaston that was purchased by a state official at a price below market value.