Emilie Estabrook, 9, of Yarmouth, shows off her Hula Hoop skill on April 17 during Healthy Kids Day at the Casco Bay YMCA in Freeport. The Y held the annual event to show young people a healthy lifestyle doesn’t have to be boring.Josie Gideon, 2, of Freeport, stays very still while having a butterfly painted […]

AUGUSTA — While he was Maine’s chief utilities regulator, Kurt Adams accepted an ownership interest in a leading wind energy company. One month later, in May 2008, he went to work for that company, First Wind, as a senior vice president. The move from chairman of the state Public Utilities Commission to the private sector richly […]

BRUNSWICK — When the Savings Bank of Maine installed a pay-to-park gate for its Maine Street parking lot in January, it was supposed to act as a deterrent to non-customer parking. But for some motorists who don’t heed the posted warning sign, the gate has become more of a trap. Those unwilling to pay the […]

BRUNSWICK — The April 26 Town Council meeting will be light on agenda items, but heavy on budget discussion. The meeting will be largely dedicated to public comment on a proposed fiscal 2011 spending plan, which includes a 2 percent property tax increase and reductions in staff, services and traditional town subsidies. Among the reductions […]

BATH — The U.S. Navy has awarded Bath Iron Works a $16 million contract modification for more construction work on the DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class destroyer program. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a member of the Senate Armed Services and Appropriations committees, announced the award Tuesday. BIW spokesman Jim DeMartini said on Wednesday that the award is […]

BATH — The administrative offices of Regional School Unit 1 were scheduled this week to move out of the Huse School on Andrews Road and into the nearby Small School in order to make way for students of the soon-to-be-reconstructed Woolwich Central School. RSU 1 Superintendent William Shuttleworth said last week that the state has confirmed […]

BATH — A Massachusetts-based energy company and convenience store operator was the top bidder Tuesday in an auction for M.W. Sewall’s chain of 11 retail stores, an attorney for Sewall’s bankruptcy trustee said Wednesday. Attorney Gayle Allen was not able to provide the amount of the bid by Energy North Group, or the names of any […]

BATH — State Rep. Thomas R. Watson, D-Bath, plans to resign six months before the end of his final term in Augusta to work for the Maine Workers’ Compensation Board. Watson said on Tuesday that he plans to resign effective May 3. “I’m not really leaving Bath out in the cold,” he said. “The chances of […]

TOPSHAM — The Board of Selectmen voted April 15 to send 27 warrant items to the May 19 Town Meeting. A 180-day moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries will go before voters, along with ordinance amendments regarding a proposed code of conduct and code changes involving Town Meeting. But selectmen removed a request for amendments to the […]

BRUNSWICK — The field of candidates for the state Legislature is shaping up, with contested races in each of the Mid-Coast area’s eight districts. In District 64, which covers Harpswell and Phippsburg, the race for the state House of Representatives will first require a primary to determine the Democratic candidate who will face Republican David […]