PHIPPSBURG — A 55-year-old man was taken to Mid Coast Hospital early Saturday morning for treatment of burns and smoke inhalation sustained in a fire on Edy Drive. The blaze, in the Sebasco area of Phippsburg, destroyed a workshop and sent a man to a local hospital for treatment of minor burns. Arthur Herson, who was […]

BRUNSWICK — A 52-year-old Brunswick woman was treated and released from Mid Coast Hospital on Friday evening after crashing her motorcycle on Maine Street. Jody Stanley, 52, of Perry Drive in Brunswick, was headed north on Maine Street when she lost control of her motorcycle while trying to stop at the traffic lights near Mason Street […]

BATH — Tri-County Literacy has appointed Cynthia J. Edmonds of Bath as executive director of the program, an affiliate of ProLiteracy and a member of the United Way serving Lincoln, Sagadahoc and Cumberland counties through two programs, Literacy Volunteers (adult literacy) and Read With Me (family literacy). “We are thrilled and honored to have Cynthia join […]

BATH — The Regional School Unit 1 board of directors will take its first look at the proposed 2012-13 budget at a meeting this evening at the former Huse School. In January, administrators said school reconfiguration or consolidation, a reduction in sports programming and subcontracting additional services would be considered to address what they expected to […]

AUGUSTA — A bill that would have permitted police to alert the public about a juvenile’s arrest prior to being charged with any crime was rejected overwhelmingly Friday by the Maine House. In a 122-14 vote that followed several minutes of passionate debate from both Republicans and Democrats, LD 1727 was defeated. The bill previously had […]

BRUNSWICK — The Town Council will hold a special meeting Tuesday to reconsider whether it wants $ 2 million or a downtown building from Bowdoin College in exchange for the former Longfellow School. Last fall, the town and the college closed a deal to exchange the town-owned Longfellow School for the college’s McLellan Building, across from […]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is front and center at the Supreme Court for three days of hearings to determine the fate of a law aimed at extending health insurance to more than 30 million Americans. The justices will hear arguments beginning today in a highly partisan legal fight between the Obama administration […]

HARPSWELL — They think Pegleg Pete lost his foot to a clam, but Harpswell resident Ruth Weeks said she’s not exactly sure how the Potts Point seagull lost the limb. “(A neighbor) told me that when she first moved in, she would see him with a clam attached to his foot,” Weeks said. “So, we think […]

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — Hundreds of marching protesters have arrived in Brattleboro to oppose the continued operation of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Thursday marks the first day of the plant’s operation after its initial 40-year operating license expired a day earlier. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued the plant a 20-year license extension, […]