Maine will provide $5.1 million in subsidies to encourage residents and companies to buy electric vehicles. The state also will add at least 50 public vehicle charging stations as part of the initiative. Gov. Janet Mills announced the financial incentives Thursday. Funding comes from a 2017 awardMaine received as part of a multi-state settlement with Volkswagen […]

 LISBON — Grace Tibbetts of Lisbon Falls, a senior at Lisbon High School, has been selected to receive the 2019 Principal’s Award. The award, sponsored by the Maine Principals’ Association, is given in recognition of a high school senior’s academic achievement and citizenship.  “Throughout her years at Lisbon High School, Grace has represented herself, the community […]

AUGUSTA — Maine will receive $2.3 million in federal money to support an expansion of medication-assisted treatment programs for opioid use disorder, which continues to claim lives from overdoses at the rate of one a day in the state. Medication-assisted treatment, which combines the use of drugs that suppress withdrawal symptoms with intensive counseling and other social […]

SKOWHEGAN — Supporters of keeping the Skowhegan “Indians” nickname for School Administrative District 54 teams turned out in force at a school board meeting Thursday night and asked that the issue be put to a referendum vote. As police officers stood by, supporters decked out in “Indian Pride” black and orange and displaying signs and […]

The U.S. Coast Guard broke the ice Thursday on the Kennebec River.  The ice-breaking mission came about four days earlier than planned because of a storm expected to hit the region late Thursday or early Friday, bringing a half-inch to an inch of rain.  While there are ice-free stretches on the Kennebec River, particularly between […]

BATH — Regional School Unit 1 officials have chosen New Hampshire-based Harvey Construction as the general contractor to build a new high school in Bath that will replace Morse High School. The building also will serve as the home of the future Bath Regional Career and Technical Center. Harvey Construction submitted the lowest bid for […]

TOPSHAM– The Maine Department of Transportation announced Tuesday that work on an Interstate 295 bridge in Topsham will reduce traffic to one lane. The department states that maintenance work has begun on the bridge spanning the Androscoggin River in. The work, a bridge joint repair, will require traffic to be reduced to one lane. The project is slated […]

BRUNSWICK — Lisbon’s road crews are using up to 2 tons of pothole filler by lunchtime just trying to keep up with the potholes springing up. Thanks to a wet winter, this year’s potholes are the worst that local public works directors can recall. Topsham Public Works Director Dennis Cox said he’s doubled his spending on […]

AUBURN (AP) — A Maine judge denied a bail request Wednesday for a man who is wanted in Alaska for killing a woman more than two decades ago. Steven Downs, 44, of Auburn, Maine, is charged with the sexual assault and murder of 20-year-old Sophie Sergie at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1993, when […]

AUBURN — When Dr. Michael Kelley gets to talking about the opioid epidemic, you can hardly blame him for using a string of superlatives. The Chief Medical Officer for Behavioral Services at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, when Kelley got started in 1997, there were 34 drug overdoses in Maine the whole year. Fast forward […]