BRUNSWICK — After the Town Council last week rejected a School Board borrowing proposal for repair of Coffin Elementary and Brunswick Junior High schools, a plan to remediate the two buildings remains unclear. The council voted 8-1 Aug. 3 not to send a $12.6 million bond to a public hearing, effectively preventing it from going to referendum […]

BRUNSWICK — The School Department and Brunswick Junior High School Principal Walter Wallace on Aug. 7 denied allegations of unlawful discrimination against a child who was pervasively bullied in school between 2010 and 2012. The complaint against the department and Wallace was filed in U.S. District Court in Portland on July 7 by the mother of the former […]

BRUNSWICK — Jane Chu, chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Arts, was in Maine this week, and she came to Brunswick Wednesday for the finale of her tour of the state’s art scene. Chu was invited by U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, and also visited Portland, Waterville, and Lewiston. The day in Brunswick started at […]

BRUNSWICK — With nomination papers due back in less than a month, the Nov. 3 election ballot is taking shape. On Aug. 5, MacMillan Drive resident Teresa Kelly-Gillis announced that she had gathered the 25 signatures necessary to be a candidate in School Board District 3, where Chris McCarthy plans to step down at the end […]

TOPSHAM — The Board of Selectmen on Aug. 6 unanimously approved funding a feasibility study for a roundabout in the Lower Village. The town hired Tom Errico, a traffic engineer with the T.Y. Lynn firm, to conduct the $30,000 study. Half the funding will come from Topsham Development funds, and the rest from the town’s […]

BATH — With one of its founding towns gone, the Regional School Unit 1 Board of Directors is changing how it represents its remaining communities. West Bath withdrew June 30, after voting overwhelmingly in January to leave the district. The School Board position held by West Bath resident Kyle Yacoben became vacant, and the four […]