SEGUIN ISLAND — The nonprofit organization that owns Seguin Island says the island’s historic lighthouse won’t be opening for tours this season until power is restored to the island. Last month, The U.S. Coast Guard, which is responsible for the lighthouse’s light, found there was no electricity reaching the island through an underwater cable that […]
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Brunswick town and school budgets would mean 5.3% tax increase
BRUNSWICK — Brunswick residents could be in for a nearly 5.3% tax bump if both the town and school budgets are adopted as drafted. The most recent proposed municipal budget includes a $25 million spending plan, a $1.6 million increase over last year, which would raise taxes by 1.63%. The Brunswick School Department’s $40 million budget […]
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Two New Yorkers accused of setting Richmond house, car on fire to settle drug debt
RICHMOND — Maine drug enforcement agents and state fire marshals have charged a man and woman from New York City with selling heroin and attempting to burn down a Richmond house Wednesday to settle an alleged drug debt. Fire marshals have charged 26-year-old Todd Dickson and 25-year-old Joris Gomez, both of New York City, with […]
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Loss of funding cripples 3 Midcoast school districts’ efforts to cope with spike in homeless students
BRUNSWICK — In 2007, Greg Bartlett, Brunswick’s assistant school superintendent, worked with six homeless students in Brunswick. By January 2019, that number had skyrocketed to 76. Within another four months, it swelled to nearly 100. In neighboring Maine School Administrative District 75, which serves the Topsham area and the Bath-area Regional School Unit 1, the […]
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Lewiston police officer died from fentanyl overdose
LEWISTON — A Lewiston police officer died in February of an accidental opioid overdose. The cause of death of Nicholas Meserve, 34, died from acute fentanyl intoxication, according to a news release from police Chief Brian T. O’Malley. He said an investigation by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined the cause and manner […]
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Maine briefs: Police: 1 killed, 1 injured in crash in Pembroke; Bill for terminally ill to get life-ending meds moves ahead
Police: 1 killed, 1 injured in crash in Pembroke PEMBROKE, Maine (AP) — Maine State Police say a pickup truck towing a trailer went out of control and crashed into a tree in Pembroke, killing the driver and seriously injuring his passenger. Officials say 35-year-old Michael Kilby, of Edmunds, was killed and 40-year-old Matthew Seeley, also of […]
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Maine considers allowing non-doctors to perform abortions
AUGUSTA (AP) — Rights and religious groups debated on Wednesday expanding the kinds of health care providers who can perform abortions in Maine. The 40-year-old law, which states that only physicians can provide abortions, is already the subject of a federal lawsuit seeking to strike it down. At a public hearing Wednesday, supporters and opponents discussed […]
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Police say robbery suspect driven to bank by unwitting father
AUBURN — A father dropped his son off at the bank Tuesday to cash a check. Or so he thought. A short time later, the father realized his son had robbed the bank and the father had unwittingly driven the getaway car. Keith Tilton left his son, Joseph, 39, at Androscoggin Bank’s Sabattus Street branch […]
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First-grader on bike is hit and killed by school bus in Rumford
A 6-year-old boy was struck and killed by a school bus in Rumford on Wednesday afternoon after falling off his bicycle in an intersection two blocks from his school. Western Foothills School District officials confirmed the boy was a first-grader at Rumford Elementary School. “Our entire RSU #10 community is grieving this loss,” the district […]
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Domestic violence charges against former Oxford County officer dismissed
SOUTH PARIS — An Oxford County judge dismissed two misdemeanor charges Wednesday against a former sheriff’s lieutenant in a case that was connected to the abrupt resignation of the defendant’s boss, Sheriff Wayne Gallant, who was accused of sexually harassing employees. District Court Judge Charles Dow dismissed two counts of misdemeanor domestic violence terrorizing against former […]