WOOLWICH — Christy Hemenway, owner of Gold Star Honeybees in Bath, will offer a two- day intensive workshop on “topbar” beekeeping Saturday and Sunday at the Shelter Institute. The workshop is designed specifically for those who want to get started keeping bees in top bar hives during the 2012 beekeeping season. The class will focus “on […]

BRUNSWICK — Cub Scout Troop 648 will host a fundraising spaghetti supper from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday in the St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church Parish Hall on McKeen Street. The menu includes large portions of spaghetti and meatballs, salad, rolls and dessert. Admission costs $ 7 for adults or $ 4 for diners […]

BRUNSWICK — The University of Maine announced Wednesday that Wilhelm “Alex” Friess, Ph.D., will lead the college’s new engineering program, which is scheduled to start this fall at Southern Maine Community College’s Brunswick Landing campus. Dana Humphrey, dean of UMaine’s College of Engineering, said Wednesday that Friess will start work in his new post on April […]

BATH — Habitat for Humanity / 7 Rivers Maine plans to host a home energy efficiency workshop from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday at its office, 108 Centre Street. The free workshop is open to the public. Topics will include enhancing a building’s thermal envelope, troubleshooting a home’s efficiency problems and navigating the world of […]

LISBON — The Lisbon School Department is accepting names for the public school pre-kindergarten program at Lisbon Community School. The program is open to children who will be 4 years old on or before Oct. 15, 2012. Children are selected for attendance in the program by a lottery system. To register for the lottery, call Stephanie […]

BRUNSWICK — More than two years after the last U.S. Navy P3 Orion surveillance plane flew out of Brunswick Naval Air Station in anticipation of the May 2011 base decommissioning, Mid- coast area residents heard the familiar propellor roar of a former submarine chaser as it passed over Route 1 late last week. A former Navy […]

BATH — A Bath woman known for volunteering in her community continued her lifelong service after she died late in 2010, leaving $35,000 to three local organizations to which she’d already dedicated hundreds of hours. Beverly Wilson, a longtime employee at Bath Savings Bank, died in December 2010, leaving no children. In her will, she left […]

BRUNSWICK — State education officials say the funding formula that calls for the Brunswick School Department to experience another year of steep cuts in state aid doesn’t lie. Nevertheless, local legislators hope that something can be done to curb an expected decrease of $1.24 million in state aid to the district for the 2012-13 academic year. […]