BRUNSWICK The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority board of directors will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Brunswick Station. Steve Levesque, executive director of MRRA, is scheduled to report on a number of issues, including property conveyances. MRRA expects to receive 216 acres of additional airport property through a public benefit conveyance — in addition to […]

BRUNSWICK Officials from the town of Brunswick and the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority have begun negotiating details of tax increment financing deals that would shelter new valuation at Brunswick Landing from county taxes and the valuation formula for state aid to education. While state economic development officials told town staff they would conditionally approve such […]

BRUNSWICK The Cumberland County District Attorney dropped gross sexual assault charges against two Brunswick men accused by a local teenager of the crimes in woods near Brunswick High School in August 2010. Darrel Wilson, now 21, and Kemon Harmon, now 20, both of Brunswick, were arrested after a Brunswick teenager reported on Aug. 30, 2010, […]

TOPSHAM School Administrative District 75 officials expressed disappointment Thursday after once again learning that the district remains just out of the running for state funding to either renovate or replace Mt. Ararat High School. The Maine Department of Education announced Wednesday that the State Board of Education approved Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen’s proposal to give […]

BRUNSWICK — The town of Brunswick has declared a parking ban from 12:01 a.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Friday for all public streets and municipal parking lots. Parking in restricted areas during the ban could result in a vehicle being ticketed and towed at the owner’s expense.

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 […]

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. In Harpswell, a workshop scheduled for 4:30 p.m. and meeting of the board of selectmen […]

When they grow up, a set of newborn twins in South Dakota will be able to tell people they were born in different years. Kylee Anthony was born a minute before midnight on New Year’s Eve, and brother John Jr. was born three minutes into 2012, the Rapid City Journal reported. Parents John Sr. and […]

President Abraham Lincoln’s outspoken war secretary, Simon Cameron, a canny old-time political boss from Pennsylvania, resigns the all-important Cabinet post on Jan. 14, 1862. Known for bold and even aggressive views on war measures, Cameron had drawn the ire of others in the Cabinet and departs amid angry complaints about his guidance of the federal […]