SOUTH PORTLAND — Certified organic ice cream and baked goods may soon be a staple off Highland Avenue near the Wainwright Farms athletic complex. Maple’s Organic Desserts is planning to set up retail and wholesale operations at 14 Gary L. Maietta Parkway, in a building that formerly housed a convenience store and pizza shop. On […]

BRUNSWICK — The School Board elected a new chairman on Wednesday, two weeks after voting to remove Byron Watson from the leadership position. Unlike the March 10 decision, which was triggered by an e-mail Watson sent to House Speaker Hannah Pingree, D-North Haven, and his critical comments about the town’s legislative delegation, Wednesday’s vote was […]

FALMOUTH — The Fire Department had record attendance at its annual awards dinner at Keeley’s in Portland on March 20, when more than 140 members and their guests came out to recognize members for their service. Certificates were presented to the 32 members of the department who completed the 233-hour training to achieve Firefighter Level […]

BATH — The Bath Country Club, which is being foreclosed on by Savings Bank of Maine, will be up for auction on April 13. Joe Waites of Minerva Consulting LLC of Georgia is helping the bank with various loan workouts and has been appointed as receiver for the club. He said on Tuesday that the club […]

TOPSHAM — School Administrative District 75 is hoping to build a budget for next year that is almost 5 percent smaller than the current spending plan. The district budgeted $36.25 million for fiscal 2010. But Superintendent of Schools Mike Wilhelm said a $1.5 million decline in state aid next year, plus other smaller drops in revenue, […]

SCARBOROUGH — Dozens of people turned out for the Scarborough Buy Local kick-off event Tuesday evening. The new campaign aims to encourage consumers to purchase goods and services from locally owned businesses, and help create connections between those businesses. “We wanted to put a bunch of entrepreneurial types in a room and see what they […]

BRUNSWICK — In September 2008, the Coastal Humane Society experienced one of its darkest moments when the state Department of Health and Human Services ordered a two-month quarantine of all its animals until it eradicated an outbreak of a ringworm fungus. Lisa Smith, a spokeswoman for the Range Road organization, said the episode was a […]

TOPSHAM — The Board of Selectmen voted March 18 to send a proposed code of conduct, as well as code changes related to Town Meeting, to an April 1 public hearing. The Government Improvement Committee met with the board in a workshop March 1 to discuss tweaks to both documents, which are part of a report […]

BRUNSWICK — Filling a projected $1.97 million budget gap could cost six municipal employees their jobs, according to Town Manager Gary Brown. Brown, acting on a Town Council mandate to prepare four spending scenarios, began notifying employees last week. In addition to the six positions targeted in Brown’s initial budget proposal, several others would be […]

Composer and pianist Paul Sullivan performs March 20 for the Freeport Historical Society’s “Spring Serenade” fundraiser at the Freeport Community Center. Nearly 100 people enjoyed a silent auction and the performance by Sullivan, a Maine resident who is known for his work as a soloist, as part of a jazz trio and with the Grammy […]