The George T. Files American Legion Post 20 announced that Bowdoin College has pledged $25,000 toward the construction of the proposed Veterans Plaza to be built on the north side of the Brunswick Downtown Mall.  This puts the effort at 70% toward reaching the $250,000 goal: $210,000 for construction to be supported by a $40,000 […]

Bob Ryan spent months preparing for D-Day as a Seabee in the Navy, building barges that were used to transport tanks, equipment and troops for the Allied invasion of Normandy.  When Ryan, then 18 and now 93, arrived at Omaha Beach in the late afternoon of June 6, 1944, after crossing the English Channel, he […]

WOOLWICH — A Massachusetts couple is pushing back after the Bath Water District blocked an access road the family has used for a century to access their Woolwich camp on Nequasset Lake. The water district argues it can no longer allow access to the camp over the road, which will be demolished as a result […]

U.S. Senator Susan Collins, the Chairman of the Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee, announced that nine airports across Maine have been awarded a total of $3,490,995 from the Department of Transportation. That includes $369,000 for Wiscasset Municipal Airport to remove obstructions.  This funding will support the removal of tree obstructions from the Runway 7 approach surface.  Specifically, this […]

AUGUSTA — Maine lawmakers could end up funding Maine’s online Advanced Placement program that’s run out of money.  The Legislature’s Education and Cultural Affairs Committee held a hearing Wednesday on a Republican bill to fund the $150,000-a-year program, which was previously funded by a statewide laptop initiative.  Education officials said the program’s contract ends in […]

AUGUSTA — A proposed alternative to a controversial “red flag” gun confiscation law received support from law enforcement, gun safety groups and sportsmen Wednesday.  The question now facing lawmakers is whether to pass one, both or neither of the bills that supporters predict would help keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people – […]

Two brothers whose canoes capsized on a remote lake in Maine say a crew of fast-thinking Boy Scouts from New Hampshire helped save their lives.  Michael Fiori, 67, of Brunswick, Maine, said he was shivering after more than an hour in the 50-degree Fahrenheit (10-degree Celsius) water when the Scouts, who were camping nearby, found […]