Maine’s First Ship will host host its sixth annual Women’s Shipbuilding Day in Bath 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 3 at the waterfront boatshed downtown.  The Maine’s First Ship organization is reconstructing Virginia, the first ship built by English colonists in 1607 at the mouth of the Kennebec River.   Women’s Day participants can expect a brief presentation on the background of […]

FLAGSTAFF TOWNSHIP — A Eustis man died Tuesday night after he accidentally shot himself in the lower leg while bird hunting on a remote logging road near the northwest shore of Flagstaff Lake, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said Wednesday.  Mark Henderson, 57, reported to dispatchers at the Franklin County Regional Communications […]

HARRISON — Joe stands about 5 foot, 3 inches tall. He likes hugs, loves strawberries and hates kale.  He’s an emu. And recently, he went on a grand adventure down the Crooked River.  Owner Hillary Groves said she and her children spend about an hour a day hanging out with Fro, a female emu, and Joe, […]

AUGUSTA — The former treasurer of the Litchfield Fair, who stole more than $150,000 in fair funds — draining its bank accounts just as the fair was preparing for its 2018 run — pleaded guilty to a felony theft charge Wednesday.  He was sentenced to eight years in prison, but with all but 18 months of that […]

LISBON — If you build it, they will come — with buckets full of compost. Lisbon rolled out its new composting program last month, with the help of a $3,500 federal grant for the compost drop-off site at the transfer station at 14 Capital Ave. It hired a curbside compost service, Garbage to Garden, to collect […]

WOOLWICH — A tractor trailer truck crashed into water along Route 1 early Thursday morning. The crash was reported at 5:39 a.m. The truck was traveling north on Route 1 when it appears the driver fell asleep and went off the road into the dike. The driver, 60 year-old Steven Brown of Providence, Rhode Island, […]