Three preservation groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the Maine Department of Transportation from tearing down a historic two-lane bridge that connects the towns of Brunswick and Topsham and replacing it with a new structure.  In the suit filed Friday, the plaintiffs ask the U.S. District Court to grant an injunction that would […]

Police arrested one of two suspects who allegedly confronted a Litchfield man with a “stun gun” in his home — in an apparent attempt to steal marijuana — and then fled into the woods early Sunday morning.  Jay J. Labbe III, 26, of Lisbon, was charged with robbery, theft by unauthorized taking, refusing to submit […]

The American Legion George T. Files Post 20 will conduct a 9/11 Remembrance Day Ceremony on Wednesday at the Brunswick Mall from 11 a.m. to noon to remember and honor those individuals who put themselves in harm’s way without concern for their own safety, to keep our citizens and community safe.  Members of the Brunswick Police and […]

CHEBEAGUE — Selectmen say Chebeague Island Inn owes more than $10,000 to the Fire Department for keeping an eye on the hotel when its fire suppression system was temporarily offline in May 2018.  But the inn disputes the bill, arguing that its own personnel could have and should have been allowed to conduct the fire […]

BATH – An unknown number of migrants seeking asylum moved to Bath after they were forced to leave the Portland Expo, which acted as a temporary emergency shelter, last month. Nearly 450 asylum seekers – mostly from Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – stayed at the Expo after arriving in Portland in mid-June after fleeing […]

BRUNSWICK — Brian Burton remembers when Fat Boy Drive-In stayed open into the late fall. He has memories of his father, Ken Burton, behind the grill on Halloween, dressed as Dracula, he said, though traditionally the long-running family business always closed over Columbus Day weekend. As the years have gone on, closing day for the […]

BRUNSWICK — In Michael Branca’s newest paintings, color, “joy, wonder and transformation” are in abundance. Fresh Maine produce spills from a backpack and tumbles down rolling hills as a child chases a butterfly flitting toward the edge of the frame in “Abundance I.” In “Abundance II,” the same backpack, still overflowing, sits on a stoop, set […]

The Portland marine science lab that first told the world the Gulf of Maine is warming faster than almost any other part of the ocean is launching a virtual climate center that will focus on finding solutions to the challenges related to ocean warming.  Under this virtual banner, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute hopes […]

When Denny Denham left for a tuna fishing trip in the Bahamas two weeks ago, he knew it was a risky season to travel.  “I think when you own a place in the Bahamas, in September and October, you are fully aware hurricanes are going to happen,” Denham, 67, said in a telephone interview from […]