Zechariah Thomas from Phippsburg has filled a vacancy in the Maine Marine Patrol’s Bristol-Bremen patrol. A graduate of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy’s Pre-Service Training Program, Thomas will serve through the summer and fall and then resume his duties after graduating from the academy’s Basic Law Enforcement Training Program, which begins in December and concludes in the Spring […]

HARPSWELL — The town of Harpswell will now charge a $5 per day fee for storing abandoned property, including boats and fishing gear that need to be removed for navigational or environmental reasons. The fee comes a year after two sunken and abandoned vessels in Harpswell created a navigational hazard for other boats and needed to be […]

BRUNSWICK — Construction on the Cook’s Corner connector road is “cranking away,” and drivers should be able to start using the new road sometime in mid-September, according to Steve Levesque, executive director of the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority.  The majority of work will be completed by Aug. 15, Town Manager John Eldridge said Tuesday, with […]

TOPSHAM — Days after a pair of mass shootings left a pair of U.S. communities reeling, families who attended a Tuesday event meant to build bonds with law enforcement said they feel safe, thanks in part to their local police. Deputy Zac Kindelan with the sheriff’s office organized the first local National Night Out, a […]

Navatek, a hydrodynamic engineering firm with offices in Portland, has received an $8 million contract from the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research to design safer hulls and a new propulsion system for the Navy’s small, high speed boats, the company announced last week.  The contract, which will run through 2022, will allow the company […]

Utility regulators have put an indefinite hold on Central Maine Power’s request for a rate hike until an investigation into the company’s billing and metering methods is complete.  Three members of the Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday approved a motion brought by the Public Advocate, the state’s utilities watchdog, to stay a decision on CMP’s request for […]

PORTLAND — The Maine Public Utilities Commission’s approval of a proposed 145-mile  transmission line that would bring Canadian hydropower to the New England power grid was “replete with errors,” according to a company that’s suing to stop the project.  In an appeal of that approval to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, NextEra Energy Resources accused the […]

Shawna Gatto, the Wiscasset woman convicted in April of murdering 4-year-old Kendall Chick, has filed a notice of appeal with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.  Gatto is appealing both the verdict by Superior Court Justice William Stokes and the 50-year prison sentence that was handed down in June.  Gatto, 44, had been held at Two Bridges Regional […]