BRUNSWICK — On Monday night, the Brunswick Town Council will revisit a proposal to ask that the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority (NNEPRA) use state environmental standards in building a train maintenance garage to serve the Amtrak Downeaster’s extension to Brunswick. Neighbors of the planned 60,000- square- foot garage between Union Street and Church Road […]

FREEPORT — Freeport Democrats are lining up for a three-way primary race, with eyes on termlimited Rep. David Webster’s District 106 seat. Town Councilor Sara Gideon, former State House staffer Patrick Norton, and social worker Melanie Sachs have all thrown their hats in the ring, and each said Thursday that they plan to stay in the […]

AUGUSTA — The Maine Secretary of State’s Office on Thursday confirmed that enough signatures have been verified to allow voters in November to decide whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry in Maine. “After a thorough review, we have determined that 85,216 signatures on the petition are valid,” Secretary of State Charlies Summers said in […]

AUGUSTA — Jamie Plummer scored 20 points to lead the Richmond High School girls basketball team to a 54-28 Western Maine Class D semifinal victory over fourth-seeded Seacoast Christian at the Augusta Civic Center on Thursday. The top-seeded Bobcats improved to 18-1 and face No. 2 Rangeley (18-2) on Saturday in the Western D final at […]

RICHMOND — At a meeting Wednesday night, selectmen and residents discussed how the town will proceed now that it has received 11 bids to design and build a new Umberhine Library. The bids ranged from $372,475 submitted by a Bowdoinham construction company to $634,250 from a West Gardiner firm. Now, a panel will conduct a formal […]

WASHINGTON Movie super spies James Bond and Jason Bourne use them. So do real-life presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who says he pays his taxes, and untold numbers of Americans who don’t. Swiss banks and their secretive counterparts around the globe may sound like the exclusive province of the wealthy, the mysterious or the shady, but […]

It was New Year’s Eve. She had been drinking. It was late. And that was the moment the world chose to welcome Sarah LaRose to the not-so-exclusive club of people who have dropped their iPhone into a toilet. As LaRose told her story to Curt Ingram, he nodded politely. He knows this story. If there’s […]

Jefferson Davis, who was provisionally elected the president of the Confederacy at a convention in Montgomery, Ala., and inaugurated in February 1861, is reinaugurate this week 150 years ago. The reinauguration on Richmond’s Capitol Square takes place on Feb. 22, 1862, following Davis’ election in November 1861 to a sixyear term. In his address, Davis […]

TAMPA, Fla. M ajor league baseball teams started coming to Florida for spring training almost a century ago, traveling by rail from the often still- frozen North to get in shape and play some exhibition games in the sun. For baseball fans needing an early fix after a long winter, spring training is hard to […]