Bike riders of all ages and experience levels are invited to take part in the Explore Merrymeeting Bay Bike Tour on July   28, sponsored by Merrymeeting Trailblazers and Maine Farmland Trust.  Three free guided bike rides will visit open farms and art studios. Merrymeeting Wheelers, Maine Farmland Trust and Kennebec Estuary Land Trust will be supporting the rides.  All rides leave […]

FALMOUTH — West Falmouth’s easy accessibility from Maine Turnpike Exit 53 and points west and north make it an attractive place for a new Amtrak Downeaster stop, the Town Council was told Monday.  If the new passenger rail stop is eventually approved, adding it to the passenger rail schedule would likely still be several years […]

DRESDEN — The Dresden Summerfest was like a family gathering.  “It is a community experience where we see familiar faces,” said Amy Plourde, of Chelsea. “My family is here. My sister’s on the (Dresden Fire) squad, so we get to see a lot of the faces (we know) come through as we sit.  “It’s nice to come […]

While the Affordable Care Act is under attack in the courts, Maine’s three providers of individual insurance in the ACA marketplace have requested relatively small average rate increases for 2020, ranging from 1 percent to just under 8 percent.  Insurers in Maine said lower rate increase requests stem from lower-than-expected claims in 2018 and the […]

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft joined leather-clad bikers from across the country at a memorial Saturday for the seven motorcyclists killed in a collision with a truck last month and pledged to donate $100,000 to help the victims’ families.  Bikers from as far as Louisiana and Arizona rode in for the […]

Eight out-of-state residents were injured in two traffic crashes Sunday in southern Maine, forcing police to close sections of the Maine Turnpike and Route 202 for several hours.  A pickup truck operated by Robert Rapino, 18, of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, crossed the centerline on Route 202 in Lebanon around 11 a.m. and struck two vehicles in the […]

Hank Homer’s family for years has fought for the 46-year-old to live in Maine, scrambling for suitable housing at a time when group homes for adults with intellectual disabilities like Hank are in critically short supply.  He nearly was shipped to facilities in Illinois or Virginia in 2015. This year, the Maine Department of Health […]

WOOLWICH — One person was critically injured and three others injured in a four-vehicle crash Monday morning on Route 1 near Taste of Maine in Woolwich. The crash was reported at 6:50 a.m. Chief Deputy Brett Strout said a Penske rental truck headed north “appears to have crossed the centerline, hitting a Subaru and then […]

LISBON — Claudia Williams, daughter of late Red Sox left fielder and Hall of Famer Ted Williams, visited Lisbon this weekend to celebrate a divisive beverage that her father used his fame to promote. “I’ve always known my dad was a spokesman for Moxie and when I learned there was this Moxie Festival I decided […]