TOPSHAM — The Mid- Coast Retired Educators Association will gather at 9 a.m. Tuesday for breakfast at The Highlands on Elm Street. There will be a gift exchange in the annual Ugly Yankee Swap. This month’s internal fundraiser will be a bake sale, and proceeds will be donated to the MCREA scholarship fund. For more […]

BathCITY COUNCIL, Wednesday,7:30 p.m., City Hall.FORESTRY COMMITTEE,Wednesday, 7 p.m., City Hall.COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTCOMMITTEE, Thursday,4:30 p.m., City Hall.BATH DEVELOPMENTCORPORATION, Friday,9 a.m., City Hall.Bowdoinham250th ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE, Wednesday, 7 p.m.,Coombs Municipal Building. BrunswickSCHOOL BOARD: AGENDABUILDING COMMITTEE,Wednesday, 3:45 p.m.,superintendent’s office.MARINE RESOURCE COMMITTEE, Wednesday, 7 p.m., Brunswick Station, 16 Station Ave.RESTORATION ADVISORYBOARD, Wednesday, 7 p.m.,Parkwood Inn, 71 Gurnet Road.DresdenFIRE DEPARTMENT, Wednesday, […]

BRUNSWICK The Teddy Bear Club at Mid Coast Hospital, a project of the Mid Coast Hospital Auxiliary, provides about 200 stuffed animals a month to children who come to the hospital for both outpatient and inpatient services. These different surroundings can be a bit startling to a 2-year old, but the gift of a stuffed […]

BRUNSWICK Dr. Angela Perron and her staff will conduct their annual Christmas sock tree collection through Dec. 21. The podiatrist’s office will accept donations of new, clean socks through Dec. 21. The socks will be distributed to local shelters before Christmas. Donations can be dropped off in the waiting room at 81 Medical Center Drive, […]

In today’s poem Elizabeth Tibbetts of Hope proves that warmth and love are possible even in a cold Maine winter. COMING HOME BY ELIZABETH TIBBETTS Oh, God, the full-faced moon is smiling at mein his pink sky, and I’m alive, alive(!)and driving home to you and our new refrigerator.A skin of snow shines on the […]

ArrowsicROAD COMMISSION, Tuesday,7 p.m. town hall.BathCITY COUNCIL, Wednesday,7:30 p.m., City Hall.FORESTRY COMMITTEE,Wednesday, 7 p.m., City Hall.COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTCOMMITTEE, Thursday,4:30 p.m., City Hall.BowdoinhamCOMPREHENSIVE PLANNINGCOMMITTEE, Tuesday,6:30 p.m., Coombs MunicipalBuilding.250th ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE, Wednesday, 7 p.m.,Coombs Municipal Building.BrunswickPOLICE STATION BUILDINGCOMMITTEE, Tuesday, 4 p.m.,Brunswick Station, 16 StationAve.PLANNING BOARD, Tuesday, 7p.m., Brunswick Station, 16Station Ave.SCHOOL BOARD: STUDENTSERVICES COMMITTEE,Wednesday, 10 a.m., Student Services […]

Alna BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Monday, 6:30 p.m., town hall. Arrowsic ROAD COMMISSION, Tuesday, 7 p.m. town hall. PLANNING BOARD, Monday, 7 p.m., town hall. Bath ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS, Monday, 7 p.m., City Hall. PLANNING BOARD WORKSHOP, Tuesday, 5 p.m., City Hall. PLANNING BOARD, Tuesday, 6 p.m., City Hall. CITY COUNCIL, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., City […]

O ne day a handsome soldier, sword at his side, marched home from war. He happened to pass by a hideous witch who called, “Good evening. How would you like all the money in the world?” She told the soldier the tree beside her was a money tree, and at the bottom of the hollow […]

The dismal failure by the congressional “super committee” to deal with the nation’s debt crisis leaves the Department of Defense facing automatic $55-billion-a-year spending cuts from 2013 through 2021. This is in addition to defense cuts of near-equal size already planned across the same decade. President Obama promised before Thanksgiving to veto any attempt to […]