A public meeting is scheduled on the Maine Department of Transportation’s recommendation to replace, rather than rehabilitate, the 85-year-old Frank J. Wood Bridge.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe house added to Underground Railroad network
A Bowdoin College student’s work helps to earn the Brunswick landmark recognition for its role as a way station for runaway slaves.
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Letter to the editor: Downeaster service from Portland to Brunswick too costly for light use
There’s a clear difference in thinking between air and rail transportation planners. A 20-year master plan for Portland’s airport (March 9) “expects passenger volume to increase by nearly 40 percent by 2036,” noting that a “greater percentage of those passengers will be carried by larger airplanes” because of the cost-effectiveness of high-capacity vehicles. This is […]
Posted inCoastal Journal, Northern Forecaster, Portland Forecaster, Southern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Muslim in Maine: Coping with mistrust, counting on faith, community
PORTLAND — On the morning of Nov. 16, 2015, Fahmo Ahmed walked from her apartment on Bartlett Street in Lewiston to a downtown bus stop. It was a Monday, and like so many other Americans, she was already bracing herself for the week ahead. It was cold outside, and she had to get up early […]
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Brunswick students put climate knowledge to practical use
BRUNSWICK — You could pay someone to weatherize your home, or you could ask a Brunswick seventh-grader how to do it yourself. Brunswick Junior High School students showed off their new-found knowledge of home insulation at an open house at Curtis Memorial Library Wednesday night. The event was the capstone of a unit on climate, where […]
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
No deflating Brunswick centenarian’s pride in Patriots
BRUNSWICK — Some people care about the New England Patriots’ “Deflategate” scandal. Goldie Singer does not. Tom Brady “can do no wrong,” she said Wednesday at the Mere Point Long Term Care Community, where Singer will turn 100 April 6. She lived in the same house on Federal Street for 94 years before moving to an […]
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Mid-Coast law enforcement, health providers see new urgency, awareness about opioids
BRUNSWICK — Maine is in the midst of an opioid epidemic, so widespread it is recognized from the hallways of local addiction clinics to the chambers of the Statehouse. On Tuesday night, law enforcement and health providers gathered at Frontier Cafe to discuss what the situation means for the state and, specifically, the Mid-Coast. From 2013 […]
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Brunswick Police Beat: April 1
Arrests 3/22 at 1:53 a.m. Charles Flores, 26, of Westchester Avenue, Bronx, New York, was arrested on Pleasant Street by Maine State Police Trooper Thomas Pappas on charges of unlawful trafficking of scheduled drugs, aggravated trafficking of scheduled drugs, and an outstanding warrant from another agency, 3/23 at 8:02 p.m. Lisa M. Pierce, 47, of Baribeau Drive, […]
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Auburn-based transit service to take over Brunswick Explorer
BRUNSWICK — The Brunswick Explorer will keep on rolling. Starting April 22, the bus service, which runs Monday-Friday and costs $1 a ride, will be operated by Auburn-based Western Maine Transportation Services. The change comes after its former operator, Coastal Trans of Rockland, announced last week it would be shutting down after 33 years of service. […]
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'Lone wolf' Brunswick grandmother organizing against gun violence
BRUNSWICK — When Tyrrell Hunter opens the first meeting of Maine Grandmothers Against Gun Violence on Sunday, April 3, she plans to make it cinematic. “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore,” Hunter said in an interview Tuesday, quoting the character played by actor Peter Finch in the 1976 film “Network.” What […]