Woolwich solicits for Planning Board WOOLWICH — The Woolwich town office seeks residents interested in serving on the town’s Planning Board. Applications are available at the town office or by sending an email to administrator@woolwich.us. For more information, call 442-7094. Pleasant Street shop hosts pet food drive BRUNSWICK — Kathy Wilson’s Pet Grooming, 144 Pleasant […]

BOWDOIN The Sagadahoc County Sheriff ’s Department is investigating the burglary of several hundreds of dollars worth of electronics from a Main Street home Monday. The burglary was reported Monday at 5: 19 p. m. Chief Deputy Brett Strout said someone went into the Main Street home Monday sometime prior to 5 p.m. and took […]

TOPSHAM The Topsham Police Department received a holiday enforcement grant that will allow extra patrols through the first week of January. Lt. Christopher Lewis said the department received the $5,000 grant from the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety, which reimburses the department for overtime costs for additional officers on the road focusing on apprehending intoxicated […]

TOPSHAM The Historic District Commission will hold a meeting at 6 p.m. today to discuss proposed language to replace the town’s existing Historic Overlay District provisions. The HDC plans to compile feedback from today’s meeting and make necessary edits before providing a draft of the proposed amendments based upon the feedback for January and February, […]

BOWDOINHAM While Bowdoinham Fire Department was still at the scene of a structure fire on Wildes Road early Friday morning, a second call came in about a tractor-trailer truck crash on Interstate 295 southbound near mile marker 42. The Richmond Fire Department responded As part of a mutual aid agreement. Maine State Trooper Kyle Pelletier […]

WISCASSET Huber’s Market along Route 1 in Wiscasset swung back into business Tuesday after a fire damaged the building nearly a year ago. The renovation “ was a long, long process,” owner Kyle Yacoben said in a phone interview, “ but we got through it and had a lot of help and support from the […]

Last summer, a former deputy clerk and treasurer of the town of Newburgh was sent to jail after pleading guilty to taking the town’s money, nearly $200,000 of it. Last spring, the Pleasant Point police chief pleaded guilty to taking $33,000 from the Passamaquoddy Tribe. Last year, the former Frenchboro treasurer pleaded guilty to a […]

WISCASSET In a special election Tuesday, Wiscasset voters approved a fireworks ordinance allowing the use and sale of consumer fireworks by a tally of 78 to 46. Now, Wiscasset businesses along Route 1 zoned for commercial and rural uses — and outside the town center — will be able to apply for state and local […]

BATH A shipment of equipment from the West Coast to Bath Iron Works contained something a little unexpected recently: about two dozen black widow spiders. BIW spokesman Jim DeMartini said the spiders were eradicated by a professional pest service and that none have been seen in the past week or so. The spiders arrived in […]