BATH — Bath Housing will give the public a glimpse behind the facade of the Moses and Columbia blocks, which it purchased in July from the Sagadahock Real Estate Association.  Tours of the former recreation center and the old YMCA gym will held from 2-4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, at 184 Front Street in Bath. […]

LISBON — With the future of the former Worumbo Mill site up in the air, the town is starting to hone in on exactly what might be possible on the waterfront property. Earlier this year, the town bought nearly 4 developable acres at 1 Canal St., the site of the former textile mill that sits […]

BRUNSWICK — As a mom and teacher, Katie Coppens is always trying to get her daughters and her students interested and connected with science, language and the world around them. Her Maine-based, Maine-published science-centric book series, The Acadia Files, is one way to accomplish that goal– even if her six-year-old daughter is mostly excited about […]

BRUNSWICK — In the town’s only contested race this election season, Toby McGrath of Water Street and Jim Trusiani of Pleasant Street are running for the Town Council District 6 seat being vacated by Jane Millett.  Meanwhile, Councilor David Watson is unopposed for his District 1 seat, as is Councilor Stephen Walker for District 2.  […]

AUBURN — Former Androscoggin County Sheriff Ronald Gagnon died at his home Friday morning, the sheriff’s office announced Saturday. He was 72.  Former employees remembered him as a fair boss who worked tirelessly – and successfully – to replace a failing, overcrowded jail.  Gagnon started in law enforcement as a deputy based in the Androscoggin County Jail […]

Maine’s congressional delegation on Sunday praised the efforts of U.S. special operations forces that led to the death of the Islamic State’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.  President Trump announced the death on Sunday morning, detailing how a nighttime airborne raid led to al-Baghdadi being cornered in a dead-end tunnel in Syria. Trapped, al-Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest, […]

GEORGETOWN — Few things are as embedded in Maine’s culture — or its mud — as clams, and an environmental group thinks the key to saving the shellfish might be growing a different kind of bivalve along the state’s coast.  Manomet, based in Plymouth, Massachusetts, is proposing the shellfish shift as a way to beat predators that […]

GARDINER — It looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and — if it gets a prosthetic leg — will once again walk like a duck.  Loni Hamner, of Gardiner, recently adopted a female Mallard duck that was left with one leg and a stump after being attacked by a fox last year. Hamner […]