TOPSHAM — The Mt. Ararat field hockey team will not hold its traditional balloon release at this year’s Drive Out Cancer tournament and fundraiser because of outcry from the community.  The tournament, set for Saturday at the Mt. Ararat Middle School fields, is a fundraiser to support the Maine Children’s Cancer Program. “This is a […]

Joseph Maist of Bath has been honored by the Bath Police Department for coming to the aid of an officer. According to Deputy Chief Andrew Booth, Maist “selflessly” came to the aid of Officer Brett McIntire who was struggling with two juveniles who were suspected of theft. Police say the suspects, a male, 17,  and […]

OAKLAND — A spokesperson for Pan Am Railways confirmed its investigation into an incident involving an Oakland man being struck by a train earlier this month has concluded.  Cynthia Scarano, Pan Am’s executive vice president, said she was unable to share any of the findings of that investigation, however. She met with the railway police, who took over the […]

AUGUSTA — What a ranked-choice presidential primary in Maine would look like next March remained largely uncertain Tuesday, a day after the state Senate passed a bill approving the system on a nearly party-line, 20-12 vote during a one-day special session.  Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat who won her party’s gubernatorial nomination in the nation’s first […]

PORTLAND — Gov. Janet Mills’ office on Tuesday called lawmakers’ failed attempt to ensure additional $1 million in funding for nursing homes a “political act with no productive goal.”  Lawmakers in the final hours of this year’s session passed $1 million in Medicaid funding for nursing homes, on top of $8.5 million in state funding in Mills’ budget […]

Maine and New Hampshire are expected to jointly pay $5 million to Pittsfield contractor Cianbro Corp. to settle its claim that inadequate design work created cost overruns and delayed the opening of a major bridge between the two states for months.  The payment caps a contract dispute about construction of the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge […]

BRUNSWICK– On a late August afternoon in 1968, trolling for bluefish off Block Island in Rhode Island with his family, 12-year-old William “Tip” Koehler was bored.  To entertain himself, he went below deck and composed a letter “To whom it may concern,” introducing himself, and asking that whoever found his letter please include “where, when” […]

BATH – Construction of the new Morse High School building is going smoothly and as planned according to Patrick Manuel, Regional School Unit 1 superintendent. “The building footings and foundation walls are 95% complete,” said Manuel at Monday’s RSU 1 Board of Education meeting. “With the steel beams up it’s becoming clearer what the campus is going to […]