Mainers’ personal location data, scraped from cellphone apps and other devices, will be used by state and local governments to analyze traffic and plan highway projects. But it is also prompting privacy concerns. Four state and local transportation agencies recently purchased a subscription to San Francisco-based Streetlight Data for detailed data on traffic flows, congestion, […]

AUGUSTA — “She was fine 10 minutes ago.”  Assistant Attorney General Donald Macomber repeated the sentence as each photo was displayed on a screen in the courtroom at the Capital Judicial Center on Monday.  The photos showed 4-year-old Kendall Chick on an autopsy table, pale and covered in bruises.  This is how the murder trial […]

BATH — Voters will get a first chance to chime in on a proposed $33.7 million proposed school budget for Regional School Unit 1 tonight at Bath Middle School . The school board gave a first reading of the budget last Monday, kicking off the nearly three month budget season for the district. Tonight’s public hearing […]

BOWDOINHAM — Bowdoinham is looking for help maintaining its more than 65 cemeteries. The Bowdoinham Cemetery Advisory Committee is holding a dinner tonight at the Merrymeeting Community Center to thank those that have already helped with this work, and to invite anyone interested in cemetery maintenance. Elaine Diaz is the volunteer coordinator for the cemetery advisory committee. […]

TOPSHAM — School Administrative District 75 officials expect still-unknown salary increases, and an increased assessment from Region 10 Technical High School, to contribute to an anticipated budget hike.  Business Manager Mark Conrad and Interim Superintendent Bob Lucy presented a draft fiscal year 2020 budget March 19, after which the district held three public budget hearings, which […]

BATH — The story of the Bath-Tsugaru sister city relationship is one of tragedy turned to friendship, of unlikely circumstances forging common bonds among people from two greatly diverse societies, separated by more than 6,000 miles.  The tale began in 1889, when a typhoon caused the Bath-built ship Cheseborough to crash on a shoal a mile offshore […]

A federal judge has ruled that the Aroostook County Jail must make an opioid treatment drug accessible to a Madawaska woman while she serves her 40-day jail sentence.  The 28-page ruling released Wednesday is a “landmark” decision, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, which argued on behalf of Brenda Smith, who uses […]