BRUNSWICK Police arrested the former assistant manager of Fashion Bug in Merrymeeting Plaza on Thursday afternoon for allegedly breaking into the store Thursday morning and stealing cash and checks from a safe. Matisse Deshazier, 29, of 538 Old Portland Road was arrested at her home just after 4 p.m. Thursday, Deputy Chief Marc Hagan of […]

BRUNSWICK Author David O. Solmitz’s father endured the horrors of the Holocaust, but spoke little of the trauma. Solmitz, who grew up in Brunswick, said his father didn’t discuss being imprisoned just north of his hometown of Munich, Germany, didn’t discuss his capture after Kristallnacht — the Nov. 9, 1938, Nazi pogrom against German and […]

BRUNSWICK — The Brunswick Downtown Association will take collections for its Coats and Toys for Kids campaign this Saturday at the Brunswick Station Visitor Center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday. The drive is a part of a month- long effort through December to collect coats and […]

BRUNSWICK Police on Thursday arrested a Brunswick man who allegedly stole a Jeep Cherokee from the Lion’s Pride parking lot on Pleasant Street, then drove it across town while intoxicated. Jacob Davis, 20, of 20 Cumberland St., Apt. 1, remains in Cumberland County Jail today on charges of theft by unauthorized use of property, operating […]

Debbie Harmon believes in Santa Claus. She might even be related. How can I think that? Here’s why: Debbie starts the day after Christmas searching for bargains on toys, roller blades, tea sets, watches, clothing and so much more. Her purpose for working all year is to help those in need. She uses the Santa […]

The Times Record will introduce its redesigned website, www.timesrecord.com, on Dec. 15. The new design will expand options for readers and advertisers by providing all of the content from each day’s newspaper online — in a format easily accessible on home computers, mobile devices and tablets. Every story, photo, advertisement, news brief, column, comic and […]

I n the fall of 1943, my father went deer hunting and bagged a large doe, which he strung up in a tree in the backyard. When Mick and Digby — the British aviators who sometimes stayed with us in our Bath home during their Corsair flight training at Brunswick Naval Air Station — saw […]

BRUNSWICK Herbert Randolph ( H. R.) Coursen was passionate about Shakespeare, poetry, sports, music and politics. They enlivened his conversation and defined his life. Coursen — a talented, brilliant, witty and sometimes irascible man — died Saturday in his sleep at his home in Brunswick. H.R. Coursen was born in 1932 in Newark, N. J. […]

BRUNSWICK Belgian-born photographer Robert Freson, 85, trained in Switzerland and later made his home in New York City and France. He has spent the last decade living on Bailey Island in Harpswell. During his 60-year career in photojournalism and advertising, his pictures appeared in such magazines as LOOK, Vogue, Esquire, National Geographic Magazine as well […]

PHIPPSBURG More than six hours of deliberations by Phippsburg selectmen and the Planning Board ended at 12:10 a.m. today with a 6-1 approval of a controversial new business license for the Popham Beach Club. After hours of testimony from residents opposing the permit, the two boards placed four conditions on owner Bruce Poliquin’s application to […]