AUGUSTA (AP) — Saying he sees an opportunity for improved commerce between Maine and Canada, Gov. Paul LePage on Thursday signed into law a bill setting aside $300,000 to study the feasibility of a privately funded highway connecting two Canadian provinces through Maine. During a brief State House ceremony Thursday, the governor signed the bill […]

WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — The former treasurer of a Massachusetts Veterans of Foreign Wars post has been released on personal recognizance after pleading not guilty to stealing more than $300,000 from the organization. George Robertson was arraigned Wednesday in Middlesex Superior Court on charges of larceny and false use of the name of a benevolent […]

BRUNSWICK — A report from Local Farms-Local Food, a collaboration between the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) and the Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust, is now available. The report summarizes a discussion of more than 60 people, including farmers, food distributors, representatives from local schools, and others about the status of local food in the Bath- Brunswick area. […]

BRUNSWICK — More than three dozen students and parents gathered Sunday at Harriet Beecher Stowe to construct new raised bed gardens for the school. “The weather held, as parents cut wood and drilled holes to construct the 10 raised beds, one with access for the wheelchair-bound,” a release from organizers states. Funded by donations from […]

Arrests Jamielyn Morrison, 32, of 290 Penny Road, Belgrade, April 1, 3:39 p.m., charged with failure to pay a fine, in Freeport. Jacob Gary Crone, 21, of 10 Marvin Way, April 1, 1:21 a.m., charged with operating under the influence, at Durham and Pownal roads. Donald Scott Huer, 32, of 1 Ocean Ave., Old Orchard […]

BATH — “Misplaced smoking materials” ignited in the third story of a Front Street building Thursday afternoon, trapping residents of some apartments until Bath firefighters could snuff the flames and evacuate the four-story wooden structure. When the Bath engines responded at about 1 p.m., the fire in the third-story hallway and west wall area of 108 […]

DURHAM — Residents will gather at the Durham Community School at 9 a.m. Saturday for the annual town meeting. Selectmen propose a $2,600,155 municipal budget, which would trigger a 1.48 percent increase of $37,969 over the 2011 budget. Included in that proposed budget is $25,000 voters will be asked to raise and appropriate in Article 30 […]

BRUNSWICK — Nate Gray, a fisheries restoration biologist for the Maine Department of Marine Resources, will give a free lecture titled “Tails of the Kennebec and Sebasticook” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St. “River herring, generally considered to include alewives, blueback herring and sometimes American shad are probably the most […]

BRUNSWICK — Curtis Memorial Library’s new noontime Tech Meet-Up starts Monday. Sessions will be held Mondays. Each program will start with an introduction and demonstration, and end with sharing about how various technological tools are used. Monday’s demonstration will cover some online tools for readers — for “cataloging” a personal library, for keeping track of […]

Summonses Shane Bean, 30, of 195 Baker Road, Freeport, April 2, 7:14 p.m., charged with operating an unregistered motor vehicle more than 150 days, on Old Bath Road. Female juvenile, 15, of Brunswick, April 1, 8:37 p.m., charged with illegal possession of liquor by a minor, on Mill Street. Wayne Merrill, 29, of 333 Lisbon […]