BATH — With Arbor Week approaching, the city’s Community Forestry Committee has dedicated its new forestry center.  The Forestry Committee wanted to have a building not only to store tools and materials, but also to provide shelter from the elements for the area’s volunteer forestry groups from Hyde School, Bowdoin College and Morse High School, City Arborist Kyle […]

HARPSWELL — A new bill signed into law last week will help lobster and crab fishermen with terminal or serious illnesses maintain their license and continue to bring in income. The law, proposed in a bill by Rep. Jay McCreight, D-Harpswell, allows family members of a terminally ill lobsterman to fish using his or her […]

LISBON — Police say they are investigating an alleged rape that occurred at Lisbon High School late last month. In response to the alleged rape, the fact that the alleged attacker was allowed back on campus and what students say is lack of safety measures taken by the school administration in the weeks since, several students […]

AUGUSTA — Derrick Dupont, who shot James Haskell eight times in a 2017 early morning altercation in West Gardiner, killing him, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on a manslaughter charge Monday.  Dupont, 28, of Whitefield, said in court Monday he feared for his life and for the lives of others in his family’s West Gardiner […]

The family of a West Gardiner woman murdered in 1973 was jubilant Monday that the man convicted of the crime was denied parole for five more years.  “It’s been a very emotional day,” Vicki Dill said.  Dill and members of her family, including two cousins, as well as an investigator in the case spent more […]

Few police departments in Maine test their officers for drug use, and police rarely face the loss of their law enforcement certificate for drug-related conduct, according to state data on drug-testing policy.  In February, Lewiston Police Officer Nicholas Meserve, 34, died of acute fentanyl intoxication, the police department said last week, raising questions about how often […]