After an earlier private service, there has now been a very public goodbye to the late and longtime LL Bean executive Leon Gorman. He was remembered at a memorial service in Westbrook for his efforts to preserve land for conservation and his work on behalf...
A threat from Governor LePage to give major regulatory power over water back to the federal environmental protection agency would likely result in long delays in water permitting. So says Ken Moraff, the director of the agency's water quality office. The governor is frustrated by...
An alleged assault--likely in Freeport-- has now led to the arrest of a man from Eliot. 59-year-old Wayne Covington is charged with domestic violent assault in connection with injuries to a woman found early this morning lying along the southbound ramp of the Desert Road...
It's only September 8, but we already know the name of Brunswick's next at-large town councilor. In January, community activist Alison Harris will replace John Richardson, who is leaving the council. Harris is the only one of two potential candidates to be certified as having gained...
This is the day of the closing of the walk-in clinic at Parkview Hospital in Brunswick, a move announced late in August just a few days after court approval of Parkview's merger with Mid Coast Hospital. To accommodate the additional patients requiring services, the Mid...
There has been yet ANOTHER motorcycle fatality in Maine--the twenty-second motorcyclist to die this year. Ryan Goslin, a New Hampshire man, has expired at Maine Medical Center in Portlnad after slamming into a utility pole on Route 202 in Lebanon on Saturday night. Earlier Saturday,...
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Breaking news from Radio 9 WCME: A young motorcyclist from Richmond has died at Maine Medical Center in Portland shortly after arriving with injuries in a crash with a car on northbound I-295 in Falmouth. State police say 21-year-old Alexander Small was operating his cycle erratically...
In Bath, municipal tax bills are going out this week, and in a sudden surprise, the projected tax rate increase has been cut in half--from nearly five percent to two and a half percent. The city is receiving some money from Regional School Unit 1,...
The integration of Brunswick’s two hospitals--Midcoast and Parkview has now won court approval, which had been generally expected. But hospital officials and others are now breathing a sigh of relief at the action. The sale of Parkview Adventist Medical Center to Mid Coast Health is scheduled...