News in Bath/Topsham/Harpswell

MRRA cancels Brunswick air show

BRUNSWICK — The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority has canceled the 2013 Great State of Maine Air Show, because of the sequester. The show was scheduled for Sept. 14-15 at Brunswick Landing. In a statement Wednesday, MRRA said it would have lost the air show's major att...

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Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 8:00 am

Harpswell Police Beat: March 29

No arrests or summonses were reported from March 18-25.

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Topsham Police Beat: March 29

Arrests No arrests or summonses were reported from March 19-24. Two men drive into a lot ... 3/23 at 6:10 p.m. A clerk at the Gibbs gas station on Lewiston Road reported seeing two vehicles drive into the parking lot, wh...

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Bath Police Beat: March 29

Arrests 3/20 at about 11 a.m. Christopher Graffam, 30, of Bath, was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault. 3/21 at 10:34 p.m. William Hanley, 58, of Pit Road, Phippsburg, was arrested on High Street by Officer Ted Raedel on a...

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Regional School Unit 1 taxes estimated to rise 6%

BATH — The total tax assessment to the five communities in Regional School Unit 1 could increase 6.09 percent next year, to $18.4 million. The district's preliminary fiscal 2014 budget, discussed Monday by the RSU 1 Board of Directors, does not yet state how the assessment would be b...

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 12:00 pm

Brunswick church OK'd to rebuild after 2011 fire

BRUNSWICK — Nearly two years after a fire destroyed the Unitarian Universalist Church, the congregation has been authorized to rebuild on Pleasant Street. The Planning Board on Tuesday u...

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 11:30 am

Health-care costs add to SAD 75 tax bite

HARPSWELL — A larger-than-expected hike in health insurance costs has increased the total proposed tax increase in School Administrative District 75 to nearly $720,000. The tax increase for the district's four communities, to cover a gap between revenues and expenses in fiscal year 2...

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 10:40 am

Bath turf field nears funding goal, heads to council

BATH — An artificial turf field planned for several years could become a reality this summer at the Edward J. McMann Outdoor Athletic Complex. Fields for Our Future, the group raising money to install the...

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 8:50 am

Federal aid little relief for southern Maine budgets buried by snow

PORTLAND — Federal aid is on the way to municipalities in four Maine counties hit by a February blizzard. The immensity of the Feb. 8 storm stretched public works winter operations budgets thin, with many towns now operating on reserves. A survey of cities and towns in souther...

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 9:10 am

People & Business

New hires and promotions Joseph Siviski joined Perkins Thompson as an associate attorney and will practice primarily in the areas of business law and environmental law. Siviski, a Yarmouth native, earned his law degree from the University of Maine School of ...

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013