TOPSHAM The Planning Board is scheduled to meet today for a workshop on fireworks and the sign ordinance. Consumer fireworks became legal in Maine on Jan. 1. Many Maine municipalities enacted local ordinances to ban or restrict the sale and use of fireworks. After considering a similar measure, the Topsham Board of Selectmen opted to […]

HARPSWELL During a meeting scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. today in the town office on Mountain Road, the Harpswell Board of Selectmen will consider placing on the March 10 annual town meeting warrant a non-binding poll about the preferred use for the West Harpswell School. The proposed poll would allow voters to indicate a […]

FREEPORT Back in the days before retailers like Gap, J. Crew or American Outfitters, there were guys like L.L. Bean, Eddie Bauer, David Abercrombie and Ezra Fitch. In Maine, L.L. Bean found success without consumer research, focus groups or fashionistas to tell him what to sell. He sold only products that he personally used and […]

BATH A late night fire displaced more than a dozen people from apartment units at the Maritime Apartment complex on Windjammer Way in Bath, according to Bath Fire Chief Steve Hinds. No injuries were reported in the fire, Hinds said, and the Mid Coast Chapter of the American Red Cross found temporary accommodations for 15 […]

BRUNSWICK In the wake of Monday’s announcement that Kestrel Aircraft Co. plans to manufacture its turboprop plane in Superior, Wis. — and create up to 600 jobs there, and not at Brunswick Landing — the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority will regroup at a previously scheduled retreat and meeting this afternoon. Speaking at the Richard I. […]

BRUNSWICK— Jamaican-born author Rohan Henry said his life would not be the same without the courage of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Henry, who lives in Portland, focused on the topic of courage Monday while reading and speaking to approximately 200 local parents and children during the 10th annual children’s celebration of the civil rights leader’s […]

BATH — The body of a 35-year-old Bath man was discovered Saturday afternoon in a room at the Hampton Inn on Commercial Street. Police believe Sean Duffy, 35, of Front Street in Bath died from a drug overdose. Investigators await results of an autopsy scheduled for this afternoon. Bath police responded to the hotel at 3:05 […]