RICHMOND — A box truck driver who failed to notice a low-clearance sign on a railroad trestle bridge on Route 24 struck the bridge Wednesday afternoon, damaging the truck but leaving the bridge unscathed. Driver Glenn Dakin, 54, of Monmouth, told police he was distracted by his GPS as he drove northbound on Route 24 […]

We started off the year without a home for the Santa Claus Fund. Then the Access Self Storage Company in Topsham came to our rescue. From the new North Pole Annex that Access Self Storage made available to us, the Santa Claus Fund began our program of offering help to children who were less fortunate […]

Sometimes it takes a death. Sometimes it takes four deaths: a mother, her two children and the man who killed them and then killed himself. The deaths of Amy, Monica and Coty Lake at the hands of their husband and father, Steven Lake, may be the tragedy that brings major reform to how the criminal […]

TOPSHAM — For the last 25 years, Robert “Ki” Owen has served as the American Legion Department Service Officer in Maine — striving to connect veterans returning from combat with service providers who can help prevent the transition from war to civilian life from becoming a living hell. Along with his assistant, Owen is one […]

BRUNSWICK — Presented annually — except this year — by the Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber of Commerce’s Military Community Council, the Joshua Chamberlain Award has officially recognized a local individual “ whose activities have served to build upon the close relationship and the understanding existing between the military and civilian components of the community.” The […]

BRUNSWICK — Kestrel Aircraft Co. is negotiating with development officials in Superior, Wis., to create 300 to 600 jobs initially envisioned for Maine, a local redevelopment official confirmed today. Steve Levesque, executive director of the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, said today that Kestrel founder Alan Klapmeier confirmed a story in the Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune […]

ATLANTA, Mich. After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving the gray wolf, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf protection business, leaving it to individual states — and the wolves themselves — to determine the future of the legendary predator. The Obama administration last week declared more […]

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. The yoga teacher in the front of the room lay on the floor, her hands resting on her upper thighs. She lifted her right leg high in the air, foot flexed. Then she grabbed her right foot in her right hand and brought her leg toward her face as she raised her […]