Arrowsic SELECT BOARD, Monday, 6 p.m., Town Hall. SPECIAL ELECTION, State Senate District 19, Tuesday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Town Hall. Bath SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING, to approve tabulation of election returns, 6 p.m., Wednesday, City Hall. Bowdoin BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Monday, 6:30 p.m., town office. PLANNING BOARD, Tuesday, 7 p.m., town office. Bowdoinham BOARD OF SELECTMEN, […]

BRUNSWICK The Maine Food Strategy, a grassroots planning initiative to support a robust food economy and a thriving natural resource base in Maine, is seeking nominations to its first Steering Committee by Sept. 6. The initiative’s intent is to create a broadly and wellinformed set of goals and implementation strategies to guide collaborative efforts and […]

BRUNSWICK A benefit road race — which features color bombs to paint the participants — is scheduled for Aug. 24 at Brunswick Landing. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, “Color Me Rad” hosts more than 80 races in the United States and Canada each year, all to raise money for different local charities. YMCA of […]

BRUNSWICK Curtis Memorial Library is now offering IndieFlix for Libraries — an online streaming service of award-winning independent films, shorts and documentaries from around the world. In a new release, library officials said cardholders now have unlimited, free access to thousands of streaming film-festival hits, including the best of Sundance, Cannes, Tribeca, SXSW and more. […]

BATH Bath Community Television will go dark for several days during an abatement project that is expected to last to the end of September. The Donald Small School, home of the Bath Recreation Department and Bath Community Television, is currently undergoing an abatement of asbestos-containing building materials and lead-based paint on exterior window casings. The […]

FREEPORT On Aug. 10, employees from the Mortgage Network Inc. spent the day on ladders installing siding at Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland’s newest duplex construction project. The duplex is part of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland current subdivision project, soon to be Hummingbird Lane. The 2-acre Hummingbird Lane project consists of two […]

BRUNSWICK — The Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust will host an exploration of Pennellville Meadow in search of butterflies. Local expert Chris Livesay will lead the search and describe the native lepidoptera that can be found in our meadows at this time of year. The event — noon Saturday, Aug. 24 at Pennellville Meadow — is free […]

BOWDOINHAM — Ornithologist Will Broussard will lead a “morning bird sounds walk” on Stevens Road from 7 to 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 24 as part of the Friends of Merrymeeting Bay Summer Outside series. Broussard, the outreach coordinator for Mount Washington Observatory, studied conservation biology at Antioch University New England graduate school, is a Bowdoinham […]

TOPSHAM — Bubba’s Hairstyling is having a backto school fundraiser 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25. Children and teens receive free haircuts in exchange for a donation of school supplies. “All we ask is you bring in a school supply, backpack, gift card or donation which will be given to local schools in […]