TOPSHAM The American Cancer Society’s 35th Annual Living With Cancer Conference will take place Wednesday, May 1 at the Augusta Civic Center. First begun in 1979, the annual event brings cancer patients and survivors, family members, caregivers and healthcare professionals together to share personal stories and medical information designed to help patients and their families. […]

TOPSHAM Mt. Ararat High School captured the third-place trophy at the 2013 annual Science Olympiad Meet at the University of Southern Maine. Senior tri-captains Elsie Morgan, Ryan Smith and Eric Farnsworth mentored the work in “technical problem solving,” “robot arm” and “elastic launch glider” contestants, respectively. Seniors Emily Eldridge and Colton Burns helped mentor the […]

Arrowsic CONSERVATION COMMISSION, Tuesday, 7 p.m., town hall. Bowdoin BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Monday, 6:30 p.m., town office. PLANNING BOARD, Tuesday, 7 p.m., town office. Bowdoinham COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE, Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., Coombs Municipal Building. Brunswick CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN COMMITTEE, Tuesday, 3:30 p.m., Municipal Building, 28 Federal St. APPOINTMENT SUBCOMMITTEE, Wednesday, 6 p.m., Municipal Building, […]

EXETER, N.H. — Phillips Exeter Academy said Elizabeth D. Ambler, a sophomore from Bath, earned Highest Honors for the winter 2013 term. Ambler is the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Michael N. Ambler Jr. Also, Claire F. Keating, a junior from West Bath, earned Honors for the winter 2013 semester at Exeter. She is […]

BOWDOINHAM Saturday will mark the town’s second townwide cemetery cleanup effort. Volunteers should bring a spray bottle, rake and other tools and meet at the fire station at 9 a.m. Participants are asked to bring a casserole; around noon, crews will meet at the fire station for lunch. Contact Albert Stehle at 666-3493 or alstehle@yahoo.com […]

GEORGETOWN The Georgetown Historical Society is looking for fiber art items that speak to the history of town. The request comes as it prepares an exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Georgetown Working League. Anyone willing to let the Society display a family treasure for the exhibit can contact the Georgetown Historical Society, P.O. […]

BATH Bath’s annual Mayfair celebration May 4 will feature Maypole dancing on the Customs House lawn, tent and sidewalk sales downtown, a scavenger hunt, sidewalk art and Main Street Bath’s annual citywide yard sale. Nonprofit groups and residents are invited to participate. You provide the yard, tell Main Street what you’re selling and, for $15, […]

TOPSHAM A concert to benefit world and local hunger relief — as well as equality for girls and women in oppressed nations — is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday at the Orion Performing Arts Theater at Mt. Ararat High School. Brunswick Coastal Rotary International is sponsoring the show featuring local musicians as well as Kate […]