BATH — U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said there should be “plenty of money” in the federal budget to keep Bath Iron Works busy “for a considerable number of years into the future.” Speaking at the shipyard on May 22, alongside U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and U.S. Reps. Michael Michaud, D-Maine, and Chellie Pingree, […]

BRUNSWICK — The  town’s new planner began work this week. Kris Hultgren, formerly a staff planner for Bar Harbor, was recently hired by Planning and Development Director Anna Breinich. Hultgren, 32, replaces Jim Fortune, who resigned earlier this year.  Hultgren, who moved to Brunswick last week, said the town’s transition from the closure of Brunswick […]

BATH — Voters in Regional School Unit 1 will meet at Bath Middle School on Tuesday, June 2, for the first of a two-step process required to approve the school district’s fiscal 2010 budget. Voters are being asked to arrive early to register for the Town Meeting-style gathering. Doors open at the 6 Old Brunswick Road […]

TOPSHAM — The proposed $36 million fiscal 2010 budget for School Administrative District 75 will undergo the first of two citizen tests in a Town Meeting-style vote on Saturday, May 30. The meeting will take place at the Orion Performing Arts Center at Mt. Ararat Middle School at 2 p.m. The budget approved Saturday will face […]

BATH — While many seniors are struck this spring by the infamous slacker’s disease known as senioritis, Ben Coyer’s experience is exactly the opposite. You might say his personal bout of senioritis plagued him years ago, resulting in report cards marked with Fs and D-minuses. But then Coyer reached a turning point that caused him to notch […]

BRUNSWICK — Days after the permanent departure of another squadron from Brunswick Naval Air Station, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, on Tuesday told town officials and business leaders that the region is poised to endure unprecedented and increasingly real economic challenges. Collins’ speech at the Brunswick Downtown Association’s spring luncheon at Brunswick Golf Club was […]

BRUNSWICK — The Advanced Technology Center, touted as a feeder program for the area’s composites cluster, may have to suspend classes next year if Southern Maine Community College is unable to extend its lease with the town. SMCC President James Ortiz cautioned that suspending classes is a worst-case scenario. However, uncertainties surrounding the school’s base […]

FALMOUTH — Although 100 or more mooring holders are not expected to renew this year, the allotment of vacant moorings offered by the town will not be made available to any of the 100 boaters on its waiting list. Police Chief Edward Tolan delivered the news in a presentation to the Town Council Tuesday about […]