BATH — Supporters of a project to revive a historic building on Bath’s waterfront have turned to an international audience in an effort to raise $ 18,000 for electrical upgrades. The Bath Freight Shed Alliance has a long-term goal of purchasing the Commercial Street building and performing hundreds of thousands of dollars of upgrades, but for […]

Arrests Namig Feyziyev, 27, of 690 Congress St., Portland, Feb. 10, 1:36 a.m., charged with operating after license suspension, on Pleasant Street. Matthew Peters, 34, of 12 Gilman Ave., Apt. 3, Feb. 9, 12:16 a.m., charged with criminal threatening and violation of conditions of release, on Gilman Avenue. Summonses Adam Eugene, 26, of 247 Preble […]

GEORGETOWN — The Georgetown Recreation Committee is accepting nominations for the 2012 Outstanding Citizen Award. The award will be announced and presented at the annual “Get To Know Your Neighbor Party” on March 18 at the Georgetown Community Center. This annual event is open to all Georgetown residents, and begins at 2 p.m. Nominations for […]

FREEPORT — The Freeport Community Library will be hosting four one-hour introductory training sessions on “ The Learning Express Library,” beginning Sunday. “The Learning Express Library” provides free online learning on more than 770 training topics, including computer software, test prep, job searches and skills improvement. Training sessions will be held at 10 a. m. […]

BATH — The Bath Police Department charged a Bath man Tuesday night with drug trafficking after police searched his house. Lt. Stan Cielinski said Miles Burleson-Lesser, 19, of 14 Green St., was charged with aggravated trafficking in marijuana, a Class C felony, after law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at his home. A Bath Police […]

HALLOWELL — There are two ways the state spends money. One is by paying for goods and services, from roads to colleges to Medicaid. The other way is by not collecting taxes on some business, services and goods. This is known as foregone revenue or “tax expenditures,” expenditures being accountantspeak for spending. One source of foregone […]

AUGUSTA — Legislators were urged Wednesday to approve a bill submitted by Gov. Paul Le- Page to close an ethics law loophole that has allowed high-level state officials to avoid reporting millions in state payments to organizations run by themselves or their spouses. The governor proposed the bill, LD 1806, shortly after publication of a Maine […]

HARPSWELL — A primary challenger to U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe and a self-proclaimed tea partier has unenrolled from the Republican party in the wake of the state GOP’s recent caucuses. Andrew Ian Dodge of Harpswell announced on Tuesday that he was severing ties with his party but said he plans to remain in the Senate race […]