BRUNSWICK — Almost a year into construction, Brunswick’s new Kate Furbish Elementary School is “on track and on schedule,” according to Sarah Singer, school board building committee chairwoman.  Matt Pitzer of CHA Architecture (formerly PDT Architects) said they are just over halfway through the bond, and according to Singer, about halfway through the project. The […]

John Dority, who spent more than half a century with the Department of Transportation and knew nearly every nook and cranny of Maine’s major roads, has died. He was 82.  Dority was the top engineer at the Maine Department of Transportation before retiring and serving as a member of the Maine Turnpike Authority Board for […]

A bail hearing Monday for a Saco roofing contractor foreshadowed the issues that could be central to a trial over his alleged role in a worker’s fatal fall last year.  Shawn D. Purvis, the 44-year-old owner of Purvis Home Improvement in Scarborough, is charged with one count of manslaughter and one count of workplace manslaughter […]

State officials are preparing new regulations that will make Maine the first state in the nation to require paid time off for most employees.  The law, which was passed in May and goes into effect in January 2021, may give tens of thousands of workers up to five paid days off a year.  The Maine […]

The body of a Massachusetts man who was hiking a section of the Appalachian Trail between New Hampshire and Maine was found inside his tent by a Maine game warden searching near Rangeley on Monday morning.  Kyle Hladik discovered Jeffrey Aylward, 63, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, in Township D around 10 a.m., Maine Department of Inland […]

A Hallowell man was subdued and arrested Friday after a woman with whom he was dining told restaurant staff he was holding her against her will.  Nicholas W. Honas, 38, was arrested by Hallowell police Friday night and charged with domestic violence assault, domestic violence criminal threatening and refusing to submit to arrest or detention […]