Tom Settlemire, co-owner with Seth Kroeck of the sheep enterprise at Brunswick’s Crystal Spring Farm, holds a young lamb in his arms for children to pet at the farm’s annual New Lamb Day on Sunday, April 11. Crystal Spring Farm is owned by the Brunswick Topsham Land Trust and leased to Seth and Maura Kroeck.

BRUNSWICK — The effort to save the low-cost shopping commissary and exchange stores for residents with military ties took another step forward this week. On Tuesday, U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins announced they have proposed legislation that will keep open the Navy Exchange Service Command store at Brunswick Naval Air Station and the […]

BATH — Savings Bank of Maine, which foreclosed on the Bath Country Club, was the top bidder in an auction of the Whiskeag Road property April 13. Joe Waites of Minerva Consulting of Georgia – who is helping the bank with loan workouts and was appointed as receiver for the club – said the bank bid $1.95 […]

BATH — Habitat for Humanity/7 Rivers Maine is offering a year-round repair program for low-income homeowners who live in Lincoln and Sagadahoc Counties, as well as Brunswick and Harpswell. The program offers qualified homeowners a low-interest loan to make home improvements that improve health, safety and energy efficiency – things like leaking roofs, unsafe porches and steps, […]

Sculptor Nantz Comyns of Scarborough works with third-grade students at Pond Cove Elementary School in Cape Elizabeth on Wednesday during the school’s fifth annual Art Day, which featured 30 visiting artists working in a variety of media. Comyns and her group created a dragon.

SCARBOROUGH — The Kiwanis Key Club will hold a food drive on Saturday, April 17, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Scarborough High School. Food drive boxes are also located throughout town, and have been available for donations for the past few weeks. Saturday’s collection will be added to the contents of those boxes […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — The state Bureau of Parks and Lands on Wednesday announced visitors will not have to pay mandatory entrance fees at two popular state parks starting in May. Instead, Gov. John Baldacci directed the state agency to allow visitors to Kettle Cove in Cape Elizabeth and Mackworth Island in Falmouth to voluntarily pay the […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — The School Board unanimously approved a nearly $20.7 million school budget on April 13. The proposed fiscal 2011 budget is $672,000 more than this year’s $20 million budget, an increase of 3.4 percent. If passed, the budget would increase the property tax rate 35 cents, or 2.75 percent, from $12.74 to $12.89 per […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — A firefighter, a police officer and raises for nonunion employees have been added back into the proposed fiscal 2011 municipal budget. The City Council decided to restore more than $180,000 in proposed cuts, which may increase the local tax rate by more than 1 percent, after a tense, four-hour budget workshop on […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — The Secondary Schools Facility Committee voted overwhelmingly April 8 to place a $42 million bond for high school renovations on the November ballot. The recommendation must now be accepted by the School Board, according to Assistant Superintendent of Schools Steve Bailey, who said he expects the board to consider the borrowing plan […]