Bowdoin PLANNING BOARD, Tuesday, 7 p.m., town office. Bowdoinham BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Coombs Municipal Building. COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING COMMITTEE WORKSHOP: AGRICULTURE IN BOWDOINHAM, Tuesday, 6 p.m., Bowdoinham Community School. Brunswick POLICE STATION BUILDING COMMITTEE, Tuesday, 4 p.m., Brunswick Station, 16 Station Ave. PLANNING BOARD, Tuesday, 7 p.m., Brunswick Station, 16 Station Ave. SCHOOL […]

Joseph Zinni of Brunswick was named to the fall 2011 semester dean’s list at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine. Zachary Engle of Freeport earned a place on the fall 2011 semester dean’s list at Bentley University in Waltham, Mass. news@timesrecord.com

BATH United Way’s Success By 6 seeks more volunteers who want to read with children on Friday as part of the 13th annual Community Read Aloud. “It is not too late to sign up to read with children during this year’s event,” Peter Lindsay of United Way said in a release. “We are looking for […]

FALMOUTH — Merrymeeting Audubon Society, a chapter of Maine Audubon, plans to offer scholarships to two Maine environmental education camps for summer 2012. Both camps are residential. Full to half scholarships are available. Scholarships are limited to students in the Merrymeeting Audubon area, which includes towns from Freeport to Boothbay Harbor and Pownal to Bowdoinham. […]

The first “ Canadas” are always special. Those proud, black heads, banded with that pure white necklace, their grace-filled bodies with tints of black, of browns and grays, all undercoated with whites as bold as the melting snows. Their distinctive, throaty honks, penetrating the foggy mists of our first pre- spring days fills a promise, […]

People Plus is closed each Sunday. Teen Center is open Monday to Wednesday from 2:30-5:30 p.m. (For updates, visit www.PeoplePlusMaine.org.) ONGOING EVENTS Every Monday9 a.m., Crafters9 a.m., Yoga with Ruth Vogel10 a.m., Chair Yoga with Ruth Vogel10 a.m., Table Tennis (except March 26)Noon, Bridge1:15 p.m., Laughter Club6 p.m. Belly Dancing with JosephinaGasca (except March 26)Every […]

The Groundhog BY C.H. LEGRANDE The groundhog saw his shadow. Spring will not come soon. Winter has not been here yet. Was groundhog shadowed by the moon? For Married Men Only BY P.K. ALLEN For all we do in this great life, We are but pawns in the game of wife.

I noticed that my neighbor’s car door had been open for about three hours last Saturday. This wasn’t like her so the girls and I went over to “check on things” and were happy to find her baking cookies while Dean Martin crooned on the radio. Seems she had left the car open while unloading […]