TOPSHAM — The design of the town’s portion of the Androscoggin Riverwalk will be the focus of a public meeting on Monday, Dec. 13. The project will run from the northern end of the Androscoggin Pedestrian Swinging Bridge to the Summer Street sidewalk. It will ultimately allow safe access from the Swinging Bridge to Main […]

FREEPORT — Athletes, students and residents will have two new turf fields, an indoor arena and a Little League baseball field to use after the Town Council approved a final agreement with the Seacoast United Maine soccer club Tuesday night. In a deal that took nearly two years to solidify, councilors unanimously voted Tuesday to […]

BATH — After weighing the idea of holding two regular meetings a month, the City Council chose last week to stick with one. The order to hold the regular meeting the first Wednesday of each month was part of the council’s Dec. 1 consent agenda. Consent agendas are comprised of routine matters that tend not […]

YARMOUTH — A reserved and private woman who doesn’t like to talk about cancer is one of six Maine residents promoting the importance of early detection in a statewide colon cancer awareness campaign. The ScreenME! campaign launched Nov. 15 to encourage colon cancer screening is made possible through an initiative of the Maine Colorectal Cancer Control […]

POWNAL — The debate over a Bradbury-Pineland trail is heating up as the mid-December deadline approaches for the state Bureau of Parks and Lands’ final draft of a management plan for the corridor. While a mountain bike organization is pushing for extended loop trails that connect to the main corridor trail, other groups, including the […]

CUMBERLAND — The Planning Board on Tuesday will hold public hearings on a Central Maine Power Co. transmission substation and new zoning on part of Main Street. CMP is undergoing major site plan review of its proposal to build the Raven Farm Substation at 37 Greely Road. The Planning Board tabled the project on Nov. […]

FALMOUTH — A hardware store and a bank may seem unlikely bedfellows, but the Bangor Savings Bank building under construction at Route 1 and Fundy Road will contain both, plus another business when it is finally completed next spring. Retail chain Ace Hardware will take over approximately 10,000 square feet of the former Saab dealership […]

FALMOUTH — High school English teacher Mark Melnicove has returned to his classroom wth marijuana possession charges still pending. Melnicove, 58, was charged Nov. 1 after an unannounced police search of the high school parking lot allegedly discovered 2.4 grams of marijuana in his car. As a result, Melnicove, who is also active in the […]

FALMOUTH — The Route 100/26 bridge over the Presumpscot River and railroad tracks will be limited to vehicles weighing 22 tons or less for the next 11 months while a new bridge is completed. Heavy trucks will be rerouted through several Falmouth neighborhoods. “That bridge is nearing the end of its life,” Maine Department of […]

YARMOUTH — With a determination to break down cultural barriers, high school junior Hannah Potter created a pen pal program for students in America and Iraq. The online communications project called NewView connects high school students from the United States and Iraq through an e-mail forum. Potter, 16, said the idea started when she attended […]