RICHMOND — Maine State Police are investigating the death of a Richmond man whose body was found inside his house Friday afternoon. On Sunday, a state police spokesman called the death “suspicious.”  The body of Andrew Sherman, 48, was discovered about 5 p.m. Friday by a friend who had gone to check on him at […]

A 71-year-old Bowdoin woman had her electric service shut off this week for non-payment of a bill, even though that meant she could not use medical equipment needed to help treat her bronchitis. P.J. McCusker said electricity was cut off to her mobile home around noon on Thursday and not restored until Friday morning, despite […]

Coast Guard officials announced plans Friday to reopen competitive bidding to build a new class of cutters, potentially creating another opportunity for Bath Iron Works three years after the shipyard lost the multibillion-dollar contract. It was unclear Friday whether BIW would still be interested, as the company aims to hire an additional 1,000 workers next year in […]

More than two dozen current and former staff members and participants of Chewonki Foundation programs are accusing leaders of stifling conversations about race and sexual orientation, exposing a rift in the 104-year-old environmental education organization. In an open letter to Chewonki that was shared with the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, former staff members Adrianna […]

AVON — A Richmond man was uninjured Friday morning when the Ryder Rental Truck he was driving north on Route 4 struck a guardrail and damaged over 100 feet of guardrail. Driver Blaine Leavitt, 49,  told  a deputy “he dozed off drifting to his right striking the guardrail damaging over 100 feet of guardrail and […]

BRUNSWICK — Nearly 100 asylum seekers have relocated to Brunswick since June, according to Town Manager John Eldridge, and in order to serve the nearly two-dozen school-aged children enrolled in Brunswick Schools, the school department has hired three new staff members, a cost of nearly $200,000.  The new English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) […]

The world’s largest 3D printer has created the world’s largest 3D-printed boat. And the University of Maine demonstrated Thursday that it’s seaworthy.  The university unveiled the 25-foot, 5,000-pound boat that was printed at the university’s Advanced Structures & Composite Center. It’s one example of how the massive printer can create larger prototypes to assist companies […]