BATH Downtown Bath’s annual Holiday Open House will run from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday. “The streets will be lined with luminaries, and downtown Bath shops, galleries, restaurants and banks will stay open until 8 p.m. to welcome shoppers with festive holiday music, refreshments, and one- of- a kind gifts,” according to a release […]

The brief poems of today’s column were written by Edward Nobles of Bangor about his father, who abandoned Nobles’ family. The absence his father left behind was “silent and ominous,” Nobles says, adding: “These two poems are aftershocks.” SENTENCES The sledgehammer cracks like my father’s heavy shouts until the stone starts to break. The sound […]

Alna BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Monday, 6:30 p.m., town hall. Arrowsic SHELLFISH CONSERVATION COMMITTEE, Monday, 5 p.m., town hall. BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Monday, 6 p.m. town hall. Bowdoin BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Monday, 6:30 p.m., town office. PLANNING BOARD, Tuesday, 7 p.m., town office. Bowdoinham BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Coombs Municipal Building. COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING COMMITTEE […]

BATH — The Bath Trolley will be available for riding carolers from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today, Dec. 16 and Dec. 23. Passengers will be picked up at City Hall every 30 minutes. No admission will be charged, and there are no reservations.

BRUNSWICK — The Brunswick American Legion Post 20, in conjunction with American Legion Post 171 Harpswell, American Legion Post 202 Topsham, and the state of Maine want to recognize all Maine veterans who honorably served. Representatives of the posts will present “Certificates of Appreciation from The Citizens of Maine,”to all Maine veterans, starting at 2 […]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An Orthodox Jewish rabbi who was barred from serving as an Army chaplain because he refused to shave the beard required by his faith has won his legal fight against the military and will be sworn in today. Rabbi Menachem Stern of Brooklyn will be officially admitted to the […]

Despite the federal government’s addition of billions of dollars for mental health care to Department of Veterans Affairs budgets the last four years, and the hiring of 7,000 more mental health professionals at VA clinics and hospitals, many veterans with severe combatrelated stress still face long waits to get the care they need. And some […]

WISCASSET The Wiscasset chapter of The Compassionate Friends will host a candle lighting Saturday to in memory of children who have died. The event, scheduled for 6: 30 p. m. at the Wiscasset Community Center at 242 Gardiner Road, is part of a worldwide event to “remember children who have died at any age from […]