Curtis Memorial Library will host “In the Shadow of Pittsburgh: Making Sense of Antisemitism,” a talk by Howard Solomon, at 2 p.m. Nov. 17.   Howard Solomon is an artist, historian and retired professor. For 40 years, at Tufts, NYU, and the University of Southern Maine, he taught courses on groups which were frequently relegated to […]

BATH — On Tuesday, Bath Police Officer John Dietlin received the life saving commendation, one of the department’s highest awards, for saving a man’s life. On the evening of Aug. 30, Dietlin rushed to a Washington Street home, responding to a report of a man who was suicidal. Dispatchers had been on the phone with the […]

Maine’s lobster boom – in which landings have quintupled since 1990 – may be coming to an abrupt end, according to a new scientific study.  The study predicts landings will fall 20 percent to 40 percent in the next four to five years in much of eastern Maine, and by over 90 percent in the eastern […]

A potential $67 billion merger of Avangrid with Pennsylvania-based PPL Corp. could shore up earnings at Central Maine Power’s domestic parent company, but a small state like Maine could lose even more influence over the operations of what would be one of the largest energy companies in the United States, utility experts said.  Some analysts […]

Overall crime in Maine declined for the seventh straight year in 2018, although reported rapes remained at a historically high level, according to an annual report released Wednesday.  Rape reports spiked 17 percent in 2017, going from 383 to 448. That was the highest number in Maine since at least 1994, the earliest year for which […]

WATERVILLE — An appearance by former Republican Gov. Paul LePage at Colby College was met with a mixed response from those in attendance Wednesday night.  LePage, who was Waterville’s mayor from 2004-2011, was invited to campus by the Colby College Republicans to give a talk bearing the name of his old campaign slogan, “People Before […]