BATH Bath native and former Patten Free Library employee Morgan Callan Rogers will read from her book and sign copies of her debut novel, “ Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea,” at 6: 30 p. m. Wednesday in the library on Summer Street. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. A […]

BOWDOINHAM Rescue crews were called to a crash on Route 24 in Bowdoinham at 9:52 p.m. Friday after a pickup truck struck a utility pole. Chief Deputy Brett Strout of the Sagadahoc County Sheriff ’s Department, said Jamie Berry, 22, was driving north on Route 24 when he lost control of the vehicle on the […]

BATH The Midcoast Maine Fishing Heritage Alliance is seeking commercial fishermen living and working in Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox and Waldo counties who are willing to discuss their fishing family heritage through pictures, stories, news clippings and other artifacts. Fishermen are invited to share their stories in a small group setting at the Maine Fishermen’s Forum, […]

BRUNSWICK Expecting steep budget cuts, the Brunswick School Department will host a forum Wednesday night to solicit public input before the School Board takes on weeks of hearings about specific budget areas. Wednesday’s forum is scheduled to include a budget overview from Superintendent Paul Perzanoski and a public comment period. “We’re trying to accommodate public […]

BRUNSWICK Alert staff at Thornton Oaks retirement home quickly extinguished a fire on a third-floor porch this morning. Brunswick firefighters responded at 7:20 a.m. to the complex off Baribeau Drive, where a person delivering newspapers spotted smoke outside the building, Deputy Chief Don Koslosky of the Brunswick Fire Department said today. “ When we got […]

FREEPORT ( AP) — A Freeport Middle School teacher has been suspended after allegedly making an inappropriate threatening remark during a class earlier this month. Superintendent Shannon Welsh says the seventh-grade teacher was suspended after she received several complaints from parents and students. She did not disclose the teacher’s name or the exact nature of […]

BOWDOINHAM The Board of Selectmen is scheduled to meet at 5:30 p.m. today in the Coombs Municipal Building to consider a request by Sagadahoc County Emergency Management Agency regarding a reverse 911 emergency notification system. The selectmen also will consider a request by Lynn Spiro to close lower Main Street for Cruise- In events this […]

FREEPORT — After a public information campaign regarding a proposed soccer arena project off Hunter Road, the Freeport Town Council will hold a special public hearing about the project tonight. The project has been a source of controversy and sparked the formation of a neighborhood coalition that is circulating a petition opposing a zoning change that […]

RICHMOND A small boom truck hit a cross support Monday morning as it passed under a railroad trestle bridge on Route 24 in Richmond, according to Richmond Police Chief Scott MacMaster. MacMaster identified the truck as a 1983 Ford owned by Fabian Oil in Oakland and driven by Clinton Bourgoin, 63, of 194 Water St., […]