BRUNSWICK — Eveningstar Cinema owner Barry Norman has started film festivals elsewhere in the past. He’d like to launch a similar film festival in Brunswick, but he needs a venue. “This really is an arts and cultural town,” Norman said Wednesday from behind the counter at his one-screen theater in the Tontine Mall, where he does […]

BRUNSWICK — For Barry Norman, the line between life and film is thin, often blurred. Norman is the owner of Eveningstar Cinema in downtown Brunswick, but he’s also a filmmaker and actor. In his latest film, made with nationally renowned lofi director Rick Schmidt, those worlds of reality and film creep closer through a combination of […]

BRUNSWICK — A Cumberland County grand jury indicted a second Arundel man on felony burglary and theft charges for what police say was a string of burglaries that occurred in Brunswick during September 2011. Joshua Croteau, 20, of 9 Linda Ave., Arundel, was indicted last week on three counts of felony burglary, as well as […]

TOPSHAM — Owners of the Topsham Fair Mall are moving forward with a store expansion that will trigger the relocation of another mall tenant. John Larson, who with his wife, June, owns the mall stores between Renys and the Hannaford supermarket, said Monday that while a lease hasn’t been signed with Jo-Ann Fabric and Crafts, “we […]

WASHINGTON Pointing to a rebound in manufacturing, President Barack Obama today is visiting a Milwaukee plant that has brought back jobs to the United States. Before going on an extended West Coast fundraising spree, the president was visiting Master Lock, a Milwaukee maker of padlocks that was cited in his State of the Union address […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Freddie Solomon, the former Miami Dolphins and 49ers wide receiver who became known as “Fabulous Freddie” and committed himself to community service for decades, died Monday. He was 59. The 49ers announced the passing of Solomon, who lived in Florida and had battled cancer over the past year. He played on […]

BEIRUT ( AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered a referendum for later this month on a new constitution that would allow political parties other than his ruling Baath Party, the centerpiece of reforms he has promised to ease the crisis, even as the Syrian military today besieged rebellious areas. The opposition quickly rejected the […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian news agency says that the country has started using new advanced centrifuges at its main uranium enrichment site. The semiofficial Fars agency reported today that a “new generation of Iranian centrifuges” had been installed and operated at the Natanz site in the center of the country. On the same […]