Checkpoints and ticketing are planned now that a new excessive-noise law has gone into effect.

The Supreme Court nominee respects “settled law” that establishes right to bear arms, Collins says.

AUGUSTA — The agency redeveloping Brunswick Naval Air Station signed an anchor tenant Friday morning, a deal Gov. John Baldacci said would reverberate well beyond the soon-to-be-decommissioned U.S. Navy base. Kestrel Aircraft Co. inked a six-month lease with the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority to occupy Hangar 6 at the base, which is closing in May […]

PORTLAND — School Committee Chairman Peter Eglinton announced Thursday afternoon that he will not seek re-election. Eglinton, who represents District 3, said he wants to focus on his career as an environmental consultant with Abt Associates, a public policy research and consulting firm, and to spend more time with his family. Eglinton said he made […]

BATH — The Pine Tree Society is celebrating 65 years of its summer camp for disabled Mainers and is looking for former campers and staffers to take part in the Sunday, Aug. 8, reunion. Pine Tree Camp, on North Pond in Rome, opened on July 2, 1945 to 75 Maine children with physical disabilities. During their […]

Drivers on Mill Street in Brunswick probably did double-takes last week when they saw “Superman” — actually Dalton, Ga., native Allen Mullins — walking along the side of the road carrying an American flag. Mullins, 28, said he began walking in January 2009 and intends to visit every state capital in the lower 48 states […]

TOPSHAM — A public meeting on the final design of a bicycle path will be held at Town Hall from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, July 28. This phase of the Androscoggin River bike path, to be largely funded by the Maine Department of Transportation, will run from Main Street to Community Drive. A previous portion runs from […]

SCARBOROUGH — Maietta Construction has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Portland. The family owned company has been in the construction business in Scarborough for more than 40 years. According to a press release Thursday, it was hit hard by the recent economic recession. The company said fuel costs and […]

PORTLAND — Cumberland County Sheriff Mark Dion this morning announced he will seek the Democratic nomination to represent the North Deering neighborhood and West Falmouth in the state House of Representatives. Dion, who will not seek a fourth term as sheriff in November, would replace current District 113 state Rep. Joan Cohen, D-Portland. Dion’s announcement […]

SCARBOROUGH — Several groups of Maine people and businesses want the residents of Haiti to know that they have not been forgotten in the six months since the earthquake that devastated the country. A group of 40 local businesses, including Preti Flaherty, Reed & Reed and UNUM, banded together not long after the earthquake to […]