BRUNSWICK — Last year was a landmark in Statehouse lobbying for the town. It was no coincidence that it was also the year a feud between local and state officials came to a boil over redevelopment efforts at the former naval air station. Brunswick reported spending more than $20,000 to lobby state government – more than the […]

BRUNSWICK — The Inn at Brunswick Station must change its name by April 4, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in the climax of a trademark dispute initiated by a competing inn more than two years ago. The order by U.S. District Court Justice Nancy Torresen followed a jury decision last December that awarded plaintiff The Brunswick Inn […]

BATH — If sushi, samurais, ninjas, anime and manga float your boat, the Bath-Tsugaru Sister City Exchange Program may be worth checking out. Bath’s next trip to Japan will be July 31 to Aug. 11. Students and adults from the Bath area travel there each summer to visit Tsugaru City, where they stay with host […]

HARPSWELL — For nearly the entire month of February, a hulking hunk of machinery will crawl through a privately owned forest next to Mitchell Field. That’s where the John Deere timber processor will grasp onto old and unhealthy trees, sever them from their roots, swing them onto their sides and cut them into neat bundles […]

BRUNSWICK — Wednesday’s snowstorm caused town officials to cancel board and committee meetings scheduled for the evening. A public forum on next year’s school budget was postponed to Feb. 26, forcing the School Department to push back other meetings and change the overall schedule of budget deliberations, School Board Chairwoman Michele Joyce said. Joyce said a […]

The 10th anniversary of Longfellow Days in Brunswick brought together three Maine poet laureates on Saturday, Feb. 1, for a discussion and reading at Bowdoin College’s Kresge Auditorium: Wesley McNair, left, Betsy Scholl and Baron Wormser. The program was started by then-Gov. Angus King, now a U.S. senator, who was scheduled to host Saturday, but […]