SCARBOROUGH — After the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined the southern Maine U.S. Postal Service Distribution Center $430,000 last week for a variety of willful safety violations, it was revealed that the situation at the Scarborough center is not unique. On July 6, the U.S. Department of Labor filed a worker safety complaint […]

The numbers that have signed up – 11 sixth graders, five seventh graders and three eighth graders – represents about 12 percent of the town’s middle school population.

BATH — Bath Iron Works has been awarded a contract modification of more than $105 million from the U.S. Navy for construction of the second DDG-1000 destroyer and for pre-production planning and lead materials of a third ship. BIW spokesman Jim DeMartini said the modification allows the shipyard “to continue buying long-lead (time) equipment for … […]

BRUNSWICK — After years of hoping and waiting, proponents of the extension of Amtrak Downeaster service to Brunswick will soon have something to cheer. State officials and the U.S. Department of Transportation announced this week that work on more than 26 miles of railroad tracks between Portland and Brunswick will begin shortly.  The project follows […]

Eric Sturgeon, 45, went into another man’s camper, forced him outside and brandished a folding knife, according to the sheriff’s office.

BRUNSWICK — The Town Council will hold a public hearing on a proposed polling place consolidation plan when it meets Monday, July 12. The plan would reduce the town’s six polling locations to one at Brunswick Junior High School.  Proposals for polling consolidation have come up several times in the last four years. In the […]

BRUNSWICK — More than a dozen crews raked for quahog clams Wednesday morning from flat-bottom boats on New Meadows Lake – a noticeable decline from the spring, when the number of boats at times seemed to eclipse the water surface. Although the quahog rush on the New Meadows has apparently passed its zenith, local and state […]

TOPSHAM — The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously July 1 to have Town Manager Jim Ashe form a committee to improve Town Meeting. The ad-hoc committee will consist of between five to seven members and implement suggestions made by the Topsham Government Improvement Committee to better involve citizens in Town Meeting, other public hearings and meetings […]

HARPSWELL — The dispute over an easement at Cedar Beach has prompted a property owner to block access to an area that some residents claim they’ve been using since the 1950s.  Charles Abrahamson, who this spring approached the town with an offer to sell an easement to the Bailey Island beach, recently posted no-trespassing signs […]

FREEPORT — After about a year’s hiatus, the likelihood of a movie theater downtown is back on the table.  Berenson Associates, developers of Freeport Village Station, will hold a public informational meeting on development of the multi-plex theater and the financing needed to complete the project within the next two weeks. Coucilors and Al Yebba, […]