Brunswick News

Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, is an institution of good reputation and high quality, where I have some friends.

What started in 1989 as a small music shop in Brunswick now has 11 stores in Maine and New Hampshire that employ 178 people, most of whom are full-time. The Bull Moose store at Elm Plaza here is bursting at the seams and plans to expand this summer into the former Mr.

Dane Bonang, 26, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which took place just before 3 a.m. Saturday, according to a release from Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline.

A 19-year-old man was arrested Sunday night and charged with felony theft after police allegedly found stolen electronics and other items in his home.

In an exclusive interview with Ginni Thomas, National Association of Scholars President Peter Wood details how a disagreement over diversity at a small liberal arts college in Maine has brought campus groupthink into the public eye.

Abandoned cats found in plastic tote in Maine BRUNSWICK, Maine - A Maine animal shelter is seeking homes for more than a dozen cats and kittens that were found abandoned in a plastic storage container.

Unless people dramatically cut the amount of carbon dioxide they're putting into the air and water through industry, farming, landfills and fossil fuel consumption, Maine's largest manufacturing industry will be damaged in ways scientists can only begin to predict.

A bill sponsored by freshman Rep. Matthea Daughtry, D-Brunswick, has fiercely divided Brunswick's legislative delegation and town officials, further inflaming years of conflict over redevelopment of the former Navy base.

David and Charlene Noyes of Bow announce the engagement of their daughter, Sara, to Ryan Grady, son of Robert and Joyceann Grady of Brunswick, Maine.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 10, 2013 Contact: Leon Ouimet Southern Midcoast CareerCenter, 207-373-4000; Julie Rabinowitz, Department of Labor, 207-621-5009 BRUNSWICK-The Southern Midcoast CareerCenter, in conjunction with its partners, offers a variety of services that not only help people find employment or upgrade skills but also assist employers ... (more)

The humane society places the animals, some as young as 3 weeks old, in foster care until they are ready to be adopted BRUNSWICK The Coastal Humane Society in Brunswick has taken in three adult cats and 10 kittens that were found abandoned and left in a covered plastic storage container sealed with duct tape in Freeport.

National Train Day , a celebration of trains, big and small, will be recognized at three locations in Maine on Saturday, May 11.

Over the past 10 years, I have written columns variously titled "Academic Cesspools," "Academic Dishonesty," "The Shame of Higher Education," "Academic Rot" and "Indoctrination of Our Youth." Therefore, I was not surprised by David Feith's April 5th Wall Street Journal article, "The Golf Shot Heard Round the Academic World." In it, Feith tells of a ... (more)

Brunswick police officials went to the apartment of Leishia Williams, 36, on Tuesday to arrest her for selling drugs out of her home, which is near a school.

Coastal Enterprises Inc., a private, nonprofit development corporation based in Wiscasset, has offered to purchase the Brunswick town office, police station and adjacent recreation buildings for an undisclosed amount of money with plans to build a new facility in which to consolidate its statewide offices.

Two Brunswick brothers and their father are in Cumberland County Jail on charges of beating a Portland man with a metal pipe.

Topsham firefighters went to the woods fire with Brunswick and Lisbon departments at 2:55 p.m. Sunday and had the fire under control within about 30 minutes.

John Olsen's love of music was developed as a prisoner in a Guatemalan prison where he listened over and over to a Freedom Rock cassette while hiding under a net to avoid malaria.

Daniel Keough, right, and Charles Derosby inspect a gun at JT Reid's annual gun show in Lewiston on Feb.

Brunswick-based developer George Schott has reached a sales agreement with the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority , and plans on purchasing both the hotel and 190 units of housing at Brunswick Landing.