BATH — The City Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted an analysis for housing revitalization in and around the city. The evaluation stems from a recent study into possible housing improvements, and areas of sustainable development within the city. Bath Housing – an organization focused on improving housing stability for families, seniors and people with disabilities in […]

HARPSWELL — Some of the town’s critical infrastructure is vulnerable to rising seas, according to a new report. The report, “Harpswell Coastal Flooding Risk Assessment,” prepared by the Midcoast Council of Governments, is the culmination of a project started in January. At a workshop earlier this year held by the town, attendees indicated they were most concerned […]

BRUNSWICK — Enock Mukadi spent the first 20 years of his life in a town called Mwene Ditu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He spent the last year in Brunswick, where he has found a way to make sense of the change in the community garden at Crystal Spring Farm. As the sun beat down […]

HARPSWELL — Whether the town will hire a full-time planner again remains unknown four months after Carol Eyerman left to become assistant town planner in Topsham. In the meantime, however, a company led by Eyerman’s husband is assuming the responsibility. At a meeting June 16, members of various town committees expressed a range of views on […]

BRUNSWICK — Paintings by artists including Georgia O’Keefe, George Bellows and Albert Bierstadt have a new summer home in Brunswick. An exhibition titled “Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960,” traces the evolution of American night scenes from “the introduction of electricity to the dawn of the Space Age,” according to Bowdoin College Museum of Art […]

HARPSWELL — The Maine Department of Marine Resources, charged with regulating the scallop fishery, has never formally studied how shellfish dragging affects the seabed. In the wake of an episode in April, however, there are questions about how dragging metal nets across the sea floor affects the health of the ocean bottom. Scallops are primarily harvested […]