WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation while rejecting President Barack Obama’s call to raise taxes on the rich. The blueprint by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was […]

RICHMOND HILL, Ga. (AP) — No one recalls JetBlue Airways captain Clayton Osbon coming unhinged before. Not the airline that let him fly for 12 years, the neighbors in his secluded waterfront community or the friends he tried selling weight-loss shakes to on the side. Now federal prosecutors have charged Osbon following his bizarre unraveling […]

BATH — Morse High School’s annual jazz night and dessert auction will take place Wednesday at Bath Middle School. The event will include performances by the Bath Middle School Jazz Band, BMS Special, Morse High School Jazz Band, Jazz Ensemble and the Treble Choir. Performances begin at 7 p.m., but guests are invited to come […]

FREEPORT — The Freeport Lioness-Lions Club will hold its 26th annual variety show, titled “Where in the World,” at 7 p.m. Saturday at Freeport High School’s Performing Arts Center. The show will include singing, dancing, skits and food. Tickets are $ 10 for adults and $3 for children 12 and younger. For more information, contact […]

BRUNSWICK — Cub Scout Pack 633 plans to hold an open house and carnival from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Pilgrim House, 9 Cleaveland St. “Boys in first through fifth grades are encouraged to stop by, play some games and find out what Cub Scouts is all about,” a release from the […]

HARPSWELL — Harpswell’s commercial shellfish lottery will be held Friday for both residents and non-residents. Town Clerk Rosalind Knight said that at least one license will be up for lottery due to the death of one license-holder. The lottery will begin at 5 p.m. for residents and 5:30 p.m. for non-residents. Knight said that names will […]

Summonses Patrick Jabo, 19, of 3 Forest Ave., Portland, March 25, charged with operating without a license, on Route 1 in West Bath. Gerald B. Kennedy, 37, of 28J Seafarer Lane, March 22, charged with violating a protection order, on Central Avenue. Jessica Wing, 36, of 20 Walker St., March 20, charged with theft. Susan […]

Arrests Kristifer Groves, 19, of 14 Brookward Court, Lisbon Falls, March 17, 8:23 a.m., charged on an Augusta District Court warrant for unpaid fines and fees, on Bath Road. Stephen Beaulieu, 18, of 227 Harpswell Islands Road, Harpswell, March 16, 1:13 p.m., charged on a West Bath District Court warrant for failure to appear on […]

HARPSWELL — The first of three public budget forums on the School Administrative District 75 proposed budget for 2012-13 will be held at 6:30 p.m. today at Harpswell Community School, 308 Harpswell Islands Road. The next budget forum will be held Tuesday at Bowdoin Central School, 1460 Main St., and the third will take place April […]

FREEPORT — A preliminary Regional School Unit 5 draft budget would increase local taxpayer contributions to support schools in 2012-13. Regional School Unit 5 provides public education to students from Durham, Freeport and Pownal. The proposed budget, released during a forum Tuesday night, shows an overall increase of around $238,000. If approved, the budget would mean: […]