TOPSHAM — Police, firefighters and the Maine Warden Service were using a tracking dog to search Wednesday morning for a Topsham teenager missing since Tuesday night. Matthew Plutchak, 16, of 244 Parliament Circle, was reported missing just before 11 p.m. Tuesday, Lt. Mark LaFountain confirmed. Plutchak reportedly told friends on Tuesday night that he planned […]

BATH — Two years in the making, a new and expanded half-pipe ramp room is now open at the Bath Youth Meetinghouse and Skatepark. The center at 4 Old Brunswick Road also has a new logo, designed by celebrated Maine artist, and Bowdoin College art professor, Mark Wethli. The “Park,” which calls itself the largest […]

BRUNSWICK — It’s a windy, grey morning at Wharton’s Point, and Dan Devereaux is sorting a mud-caked plastic bin a quarter full of quahogs – hard-shell clams – just seized from the bottom of Maquoit Bay. Using a small metal gauge, Devereaux quickly measures a couple of the hardy bivalves; the smallest is about half the one-inch […]

Mid-Coast communities will celebrate Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, with parades and other events. Brunswick and Topsham are teaming up with their annual joint parade. The theme is “Remembering D-Day, June 6, 1944,” and units will begin forming at Monument Place in Topsham at 7 a.m. Main Street will close to traffic at 8 a.m., […]

BRUNSWICK — Museums operated by the Pejepscot Historical Society will open for the 2014 season on Friday, May 23.  Visitors to the Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum, 226 Maine St., will have the opportunity to see the original Medal of Honor awarded to Chamberlain for his distinguished service during the Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War. […]

BRUNSWICK — The town may be required to install, at its own expense, more safety measures at the railroad crossings on Stanwood and Union streets to qualify for quiet zones. The Federal Railway Administration rejected the town’s application for quiet zones at the two streets late last year, Town Engineer John Foster told councilors in […]