PHIPPSBURG — Nomination papers are now available at the town hall for terms on the Board of Selectmen, Budget Committee and as road commissioner. Papers with 25 to 100 signatures are due by 5 p.m. Friday, March 16. Residents will vote to fill those positions on April 30, with the annual town meeting scheduled for […]

BRUNSWICK — As part of a weekend of “ Meet Your Farmers and Fishermen” fairs to promote Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), the Brunswick CSA Fair will run from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 27 Pleasant St. In the “community supported” model of local foods purchasing, a customer commits to […]

WOOLWICH — The deadline to purchase and dedicate a brick on the campus of the new Woolwich Central School is Wednesday. Bricks purchased for dedication will be included in the construction of a spiral walkway in the garden area of the new school, and proceeds from the brick sales will help pay for items such […]

TOPSHAM — A month after its informal reopening, Rollerworld will hold a grand reopening celebration tonight. Charlene Roberts, a comanager of Rollerworld, said the grand reopening will run from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Admission is $6 — which includes skate rental. An extra $2 is charged for inline skates. Parents or guardians who won’t skate […]

TOPSHAM — Local American Legion posts will open a special, annual military service to the public Sunday. Held in remembrance of four chaplains who gave their lives helping occupants of a sinking military ship escape to safety on lifeboats, the “Four Chaplains Memorial Service” will take place at 2 p. m. Sunday at American Legion Memorial […]

BATH — The following cases were closed in Sagadahoc County Superior Court from July 1 to Dec. 21, 2011. Justin Carman, 23, of Bath, July 11, 2011, violating condition of release, jail six days; disorderly conduct, offensive words, gestures, $300; domestic violence reckless conduct, dismissed, pleaded to another charge; criminal mischief, dismissed, pleaded to another […]

BATH — Sagadahoc Preservation Inc. (SPI) will present “ Painting Conservation: A Conversation with Nina Roth- Wells” at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Winter Street Center, 880 Washington St. “The talk will introduce the concepts of art conservation, covering both practical and ethical issues, and will include case studies of paintings that Ms. Roth-Wells has […]

RICHMOND — The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, aided by local law enforcement agencies, arrested a Richmond man Tuesday for drug trafficking in oxycodone. Roy E. McKinney, director of the MDEA, and James Pease, special agent supervisor of the MDEA’s Mid-Coast Regional Task Force Office, said in a news release that the agency arrested David Beckwith, […]

BRUNSWICK — Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, celebrated the emergence of the traditional L.L. Bean hunting boot as a hot fashion item Thursday morning during a tour of the company’s manufacturing facility in Brunswick. The visit wrapped up a busy 24 hours in southern Maine for the senator, who on Wednesday toured a Biddeford mill repurposed as […]