BRUNSWICK The Bowdoin College Library’s annual “Children’s Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.” is scheduled to run from 10:30 a.m. to noon Monday in Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall. Children’s book authors Charlotte Agell and Rohan Henry will be on hand for “ illustrated storytelling,” music and activities in remembrance of Dr. King. The program is […]

BATH Police closed Route 1 northbound briefly Thursday morning while firefighters doused a truck fire near gas pumps at Cumberland Farms. The box truck pulled off the highway into the gas station with the rear section of the truck on fire, Bath Police Chief Steve Hinds said Thursday, noting the proximity to the pumps made […]

BATH Bath police on Tuesday summonsed a 36-year-old man for failing to register as a sex offender after moving from Topsham to Bath. Fermin Sawtell, 36, had last registered in Topsham, but Bath Police Lt. Stan Cielinski said Thursday that Sawtell allegedly moved in with a relative at Oak Grove Commons apartments on Oak Grove […]

BRUNSWICK Parishioners at St. John the Baptist Church will likely appeal a split decision by Brunswick’s Village Review Board denying a demolition permit for a former convent building on the church’s property. On Tuesday, the board voted 3-3, effectively rejecting the parish’s request for a permit to demolish the more than 100- year- old building, […]

BRUNSWICK — On Thursday,  former master commander chief of Brunswick Naval Air Station, Dan Nicholson, was presented with the Joshua L. Chamberlain Award by the Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber of Commerce. The award has been given yearly since 1976 to a person who has promoted “the best possible military community relationship within the Mid-coast area,” […]

TOPSHAM — A Topsham Board of Selectmen workshop originally scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday was postponed due to inclement weather. The workshop has been rescheduled to Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 6 p.m. in the municipal building at 100 Main St.

BRUNSWICK James Marc-Aurel will be the featured speaker at Tuesday’s meeting of the Bath/ Brunswick Prostate Cancer Support Group. The meeting is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. in the conference room adjacent to the cafeteria at Mid Coast Hospital. Admission is free and all are welcome. Marc-Aurel will give a presentation titled “Lymphedema: The […]

BATH The Sagadahoc County Sheriff ’s Department charged a Bath man with more than a dozen counts of sexual abuse of a minor, following investigation of alleged offenses occurring over the course of several months in 2011. Andrew T. Mank, 21, of Bath was summonsed Tuesday and charged with 15 counts of sexual abuse of […]

Gov. Paul LePage is proposing legislation to close a loophole in ethics laws that has allowed high-level state officials not to report millions in state payments to organizations run by themselves or their spouses. The governor’s legal counsel said the bill was prompted by a Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting story last week that […]