Flags of all sizes line Main Street in Freeport on Saturday morning, Sept. 11, when dozens of people joined the Freeport Flag Ladies for their annual tribute and memorial to the 9/11 attacks.Freeport Flag Ladies JoAnn Miller, left, Carmen Footer and Elaine Greene take in the day’s events.U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, talks with one […]

BATH — A cooperative effort by Maine Maritime Museum and 15 other organizations and individuals will keep a collection of historic banners in Maine and on public display. The consortium bought the set of 17 early 19th-century banners last month for more than $125,000. The Portland-based Maine Charitable Mechanic Organization, which created the banners to promote […]

HARPSWELL — The town is seeking help from Maine’s Congressional delegation in submitting new information for its appeal of portions of a new flood zone designation proposed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. An Aug. 31 letter from FEMA to the town, responding to the town’s July appeal, asks for additional data within 30 days. Concerned […]

CUMBERLAND — Democrat Cindy Bullens announced her withdrawal from the state Senate District 11 race on Wednesday and threw her support behind the campaign of independent Richard Woodbury. Her decision reduces the field to three candidates. “Six months ago I became a candidate for state Senate because I wanted to give back to the community I […]

FREEPORT — The threat of a lawsuit has prompted the Town Council to move toward enacting an ordinance to codify the town’s emergency dispatch consolidation agreement with Brunswick. Councilors on Tuesday night also put several Town Charter amendments on the Nov. 2 ballot. They include two that are the result of a complaint filed with […]

BRUNSWICK — The three candidates in Maine House District 66 aired their views on transportation policy and redevelopment of Brunswick Naval Air Station Monday during the second of three forums. The final forum, covering health care and education, was scheduled for Wednesday. The first, on food and energy, was held Sept. 7. The series was sponsored […]

FALMOUTH — The Town Council has taken the first step recommended by the Green Ribbon Commission, a group charged with making climate protection recommendations for the town, and passed a resolution in support of the overall plan. But During Monday night’s meeting, councilors unanimously accepted only part of a proposed resolution on the Green Ribbon […]

FREEPORT — There will be two contested races in the Nov. 2 municipal election, one for an at-large seat on the Town Council and another for two seats on the Sewer District Board of Trustees. Two residents have returned nomination papers for the council and three will vie for the Sewer District. In an uncontested […]

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization has raised more than $1.5 billion for breast cancer research since its inception in 1982. Sunday’s 5K race and walk at Payson Park was the first in Portland, attended by more than 1,300 people. It raised more than $100,000.Portland residents Melanie Leshane, Brenda Neuts, Lisa Nappi and […]

FALMOUTH — Former New York City Mayor and GOP presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani joined Republican U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins at the Falmouth Country Club on Sept. 9 to show support for Dean Scontras, the Republican candidate in Maine’s 1st Congressional District. In addition to speaking in support of Scontras, Giuliani discussed the […]