BRUNSWICK — With coinciding financial needs from the school department and municipal government, Brunswick officials hope that discussion of the town’s priorities does not pit interests against one another. On Tuesday, members of a town subcommittee tasked with overseeing plans to build a new police station expressed concern that budget challenges at Brunswick’s schools could prompt […]

BRUNSWICK — Scott Bartz is not sure how to get his stuff back. In January, Brunswick Codes Enforcement Officer Jeff Hutchinson evicted Bartz and six other residents of 77 Pleasant St. because a rotting porch left the building with only one of two reliable exits required for the building. At the time, Hutchinson said that residents […]

BRUNSWICK — Brunswick Town Council chairwoman Joanne King has resigned from an advisory group overseeing the construction of a train maintenance facility in Brunswick. In a March 7 letter to Martin Eisenstein, chairman of the board of the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority (NNEPRA), King said that time constraints led to her decision to leave […]

JAY — A 10-hour standoff at a Jay paper mill ended peacefully after an armed former worker who had been holding a manager hostage surrendered to police. State police say 49-year-old Frank Smith of Norridgewock gave himself up at about 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. He was charged with kidnapping and causing a police standoff and was […]

DRESDEN — Maine game wardens using dogs and airboats continue to search this morning for a 12-year-old Dresden boy reported missing by his father Wednesday afternoon when the boy did not arrive home after school. Updated: Police reported that 12-year-old Micah Thomas was found today near the Eastern River. A Brunswick warden discovered the boy and carried […]

YORBA LINDA, Calif. — When Richard Nixon first met his future bride, he was so smitten he pined for her night and day, he schemed of romantic getaways and he put it all down in writing. Decades before he became known to some as “Tricky Dick,” Nixon was the one penning nicknames (sweet ones) to his […]

WASHINGTON ( AP) — President Barack Obama is welcoming British Prime Minister David Cameron to the White House with all the pomp of a state visit as the allies stress their unity in dealing with hot spots like Iran, Syria and Afghanistan. Amid concerns in Britain that U. S. focus is drifting toward East Asia, […]

The U. S. deficit in the broadest measure of foreign trade increased at the end of last year to the highest level in three years, widened by a slight decline in exports and higher imports. The Commerce Department says the current account trade deficit increased 15.3 percent in the October- December quarter, to $124.1 billion. […]

GENEVA ( AP) — A bus smashed into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps, killing 22 Belgian 12-year-olds returning from a ski vacation and the six adults who were accompanying them, police said today. Another 24 students were hospitalized with injuries, Valais cantonal (state) police spokesman Jean-Marie Bornet told The Associated Press. The bus […]

KABUL, Afghanistan — The U. S. soldier who allegedly shot 16 Afghan villagers was caught on surveillance video that showed him walking up to his base, laying down his weapon and raising his arms in surrender, according to an Afghan official who viewed the footage. The official said late Tuesday that U. S. authorities showed their […]