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News in Bath/Topsham/Harpswell

RSU 1 elections to be uncontested

BATH — There are no contested races for the Regional School Unit 1 Board of Directors after nomination papers were due back Monday, Sept. 24. Kyle Yacoben of West Bath is seeking the District 4 seat (Bath and West Bath) being vacated Chet Garrison. Stephen August of Bath is running f...

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Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 9:30 am

Topsham fireworks question goes to referendum

TOPSHAM — Voters will decide whether to overturn a town ban on sale and use of consumer fireworks. The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Sept. 20 to send the question to a Nov. 6 referendum. Selectman David Douglass, who in June launched a petition to overturn the ban, had ...

Alex Lear • News •
Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 9:20 am

Bath residents vie for vacated House District 62 seat

BATH — Neither candidate in state House District 62 is a stranger to the political scene, with one having served several years on the City Council, and the other involved with the Maine Democratic Party and Democratic National Committee. Councilor Kyle Rogers, a Republican is ru...

Alex Lear • News •
Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 8:50 am

Bath Police Beat: Sept. 28

Arrests 9/25 Stephanie A. Walker, 37, of Phippsburg, was arrested on Water Street on a warrant. Summonses 9/17 Christa Gallagher, 38, of High Street, was issued a summons on Route 1 by Officer Richard Ros...

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Topsham Police Beat: Sept. 28

Arrests 9/16 at 5:08 a.m. Christopher Ashley, 19, of Hawthorne Lane, was arrested on Hawthorne Lane by Detective Mark LaFountain on a charge of domestic violence assault. 9/19 at 6:12 p.m. Carol Palesky, 72, of Sokokis Circle, was...

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Chebeague Island mourns victim of boating accident

CHEBEAGUE ISLAND — The boating death on Sept. 21 of a longtime landscaper on the island has cast a pall over Chebeague, one resident said this week. David Hill, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, said Charles "Bill" Whetham had lived on the island for "quite a few years" while his c...

Alex Lear • News •
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 2:50 pm

Immigrants seen as vital part of Maine economic growth

PORTLAND — After a Brown University study recently showed Maine is one of the most racially homogenous states in the nation, representatives of businesses, faith communities, and cultural organizatio...

Marena Blanchard • News •
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 10:50 am

Fair-weather event in Cumberland

The Cumberland Fairgrounds midway is packed with people on Sunday, Sept. 23, opening day of the Cumberland County Fair.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 10:10 am

People and Business

Appointments  Tom Federle has been appointed by the Yarmouth Town Council to serve as a member of the Yarmouth Planning Board. Federle is an attorney with extensive experience in land use law and zoning and works in the Portland office of Federle Maho...

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 9:40 am

Pews unscathed in fire find new life in Bath luthier’s custom guitar to benefit Brunswick church

BATH — After a couple hours of painstaking chiseling and sanding on the inner ribs of a custom guitar made from the wood of a burned-down church, Carter Ruff held the top face of the emerging instrument near his ear and tapped, first on the edges and then in the center near the sound hole.

Christopher Cousins, Bangor Daily News • News •
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 8:20 am
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