POWNAL — When an American kestrel flew into his childhood home, Zane Baker said, he realized birds would always be a major part of his life.  His father caught it and let it go, but Baker’s interest in all things avian remained.  That passion has literally inspired Baker to climb mountains. He spent a windy […]

BRUNSWICK — Rodney Easler was sitting in his truck at a windy job site in Somerville on Thursday, waiting for a coworker to show up, when he heard a crackling sound overhead. He glanced up and saw a pine tree “was coming right at me” from about 30 feet in the air, he said. “I […]

BRUNSWICK — Richard Bubier, 93, of Lewiston was one of the earliest members of Civil Air Patrol, founded days before the attack on Pearl Harbor. At only 15 or 16 he joined the Auburn based squadron under the command of Roland Maheu. In October of 1943 at age 17, he enlisted in the U.S. Army […]

RICHMOND — Sophie Moore, 8, doesn’t always like to read, but on Thursday she sat down with a treasured book and read it, meticulously, completely and out loud to Lily, a fellow 8-year-old.  The finer points of “The Wonky Donkey,” a surprise hit of a children’s book that owes its recent popularity to the viral […]

AUGUSTA — The Maine House voted Thursday to ban restaurants, coffee shops and other businesses statewide from using foam food and beverage containers. If enacted, the bill would make Maine among the first states nationwide to prohibit single-use food and drink containers made from polystyrene. The debate at the State House comes at a time […]

Friends of Merrymeeting Bay’s seventh presentation of their 23rd annual Winter Speaker Series. “Dresden Falls-Kennebec Life 1776-9,000 Years Ago” features Arthur Spiess and Leith Smith, archaeologists with the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. This event takes place in the Morrill Meeting Room of Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick on Wednesday, April 10 at 7 p.m.  The Dresden Falls Archaeology […]