Bath Housing and Development Corporation recently announced three new members of its board. Roberta Jordan served in various capacities over the years as a librarian at the Patten Free Library and for 20 years was the school manager at the K-8 Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb. She also worked as a land protection […]
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Bowdoinham building a new boat launch
Construction on a boat launch on the Cathance River begins this week.
Brunswick Barnes & Noble opens Wednesday
Maine author Lisa Steele will attend and sign copies of her book “The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook.”
Man charged in Bath elementary school arson expected to plead guilty
Authorities said Allan Thomas Vigil, of Bath, set a fire in June 2022 that burned down more than half of the Dike Newell School, rendering it unusable.
First volunteer training for community science project is Tuesday
Schoodic Institute, of Winter Harbor, and Kennebec Estuary Land Trust, of Bath, are hosting training for volunteers to help monitor rockweed on the Maine coast.
Morse High School senior attends Girls Nation leadership summit in D.C.
Morse High School senior Grace Tetreault is representing Maine as one of two delegates in Washington, D.C., this week at the American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation. American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation is a weeklong event that gives participants a firsthand experience with practical insight into how the federal government works. More than 7,000 young women […]
The Conversation: How book-banning campaigns have changed the lives and education of librarians – they now need to learn how to plan for safety and legally protect themselves
THE CONVERSATION — Despite misconceptions and stereotypes – ranging from what librarians Gretchen Keer and Andrew Carlos have described as the “middle-aged, bun-wearing, comfortably shod, shushing librarian” to the “sexy librarian … and the hipster or tattooed librarian” – library professionals are more than book jockeys, and they do more than read at story time. They […]
Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Return of the puffins
A tiny, seemingly nondescript, barren atoll located in outer Muscongus Bay, Eastern Egg Rock, is one of a handful of locations along the Maine coast where Atlantic puffins come to nest. It hasn’t always been that way. The colorful seabirds stopped returning to the rock around 1890. A variety of circumstances had driven them from […]
Bath Iron Works and union start contract talks this week
Machinists Union Local S6 went on strike during the last contract negotiations in 2020 and said it’s willing to strike again if necessary.
Joe Guzzardi: Cooperstown needs to restore excellence, tighten induction standards
With the Hall of Fame induction ceremony set for this weekend, here’s a baseball quiz. The question: What do Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Scott Rolen and Fred McGriff have in common? Although Ruth, Cobb, Rolen and McGriff have widely different skill levels, all four are Hall of Fame inductees. In many scribes’ minds, the vast […]
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