[maxgallery id=”255147″] RICHMOND — As children paddled down the Kennebec River on crocodile-themed floats, raced across floating lobster traps, devoured bowls of fries and zip-lined down Maine Street, Richmond continued its decades-long tradition of trying to prove a town critic wrong through a community-wide celebration, Richmond Days. In 1969, Journalist William H. Williamson called Richmond […]

Merrymeeting Gleaners announced the have collected more than 100,000 pounds of donations since their inception in 2016.  The gleaners project was started by the Merrymeeting Food Council’s Food Security Working Group. The gleaners partner with nonprofits to deliver fresh surplus produce to locations from Freeport to Wiscasset, and from Richmond to Georgetown.  “Food from over two dozen farms, delivered to 30 different organizations, has been harvested […]

BATH — Bath officials are trying to make waterfront parks safer after a man fell from a city-owned pier into the Kennebec River last week. “If someone falls in the river, what mechanism do they have to grab onto something?” City Manager Peter Owen said. “Fortunately, it was high tide and the person didn’t fall […]

WISCASSET — Camp Chewonki in Wiscasset announced plans to expand its campus by adding five new girls’ cabins, a washhouse, activity spaces and living space for support staff. The camp currently offers 10-day programs for younger boys and girls. The boys’ program is held the larger Wiscasset campus and the girls’ program at a smaller campus […]

LEWISTON — A local police officer who died in February from an accidental drug overdose pocketed drugs from a traffic stop in January, police said.  An independent investigation into the incident involving Officer Nicholas Meserve concluded that no other Lewiston police officers were aware of Meserve’s drug use or his possession of illegal drugs.  The incident came […]