BRUNSWICK — The Maine Superior Court upheld Brunswick’s per-panel tax on solar panels last week after seven Brunswick families challenged it in court earlier this year.  The families filed an appeal early this year arguing that the town placed an arbitrary and unconstitutional taxable value on the panels that will slow down the growth of […]

AUGUSTA — A judge has ruled that a teenage boy charged with participating in the strangling and stabbing of a Litchfield woman can be prosecuted as an adult.  William Smith, who was 15 at the time of the April 22, 2018, slaying of 47-year-old Kimberly Mironovas, is charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Mironovas was the […]

Five years after a Maine man was run off the road and shot to death on a Pennsylvania interstate, the man accused of murdering him went on trial Monday.  John Wayne Strawser Jr., 42, of Terra Alta, West Virginia, is charged with killing 28-year-old Timothy “Asti” Davison of Poland, Maine, after chasing him down on Interstate 81 […]

AUBURN — Though he does not plan a formal announcement until after Labor Day, Republican Eric Brakey entered the 2nd Congressional District race in Maine on Monday when he filed the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission.  Brakey, a 30-year-old former state senator from Auburn, said Friday he has raised more than $100,000 toward the campaign to take […]

AUBURN – State police released few details Monday on the shooting death of Jean Fournier of Turner in the parking lot at Walmart on Saturday evening.  Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said police are continuing to interview witnesses and that “nothing has changed” as of late Monday night.  McCausland said […]

AUGUSTA — Manchester’s Maggie McQuillen studied hard and learned a lot, both while in school and out, during a life-changing, lesson-filled year studying in Germany through a scholarship program funded by the U.S. State Department.  Now the Maranacook Community High School student, about to start her senior year, would like to get school credit for her studies there, though […]

Six days after Robert McCormick died at age 70 on July 16, his eight children gathered at his home in Sanford to honor him by building a casket for his burial on Friday.  McCormick’s barn hadn’t been opened up for some time. Inside, the siblings found a treasure trove – an assortment of things he collected during […]