BOWDOINHAM — The Ice and Smelt Festival on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 3-4, at Mailly Waterfront Park will kick off the town’s 250th anniversary celebration. The Merrymeeting Arts Center has coordinated festivities that include a reception from 5:30 to 8 p.m. featuring a reading and storytelling of “Smelt Makes Ice” from “Local Myths,” by Bryce […]
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Area Masons opening doors on national open house day
LISBON FALLS — Ancient York Lodge #155 of Lisbon Falls and the Grand Lodge of Maine will host an open house from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Masonic Lodge on Lisbon Street just off Main Street. Members of Ancient York Lodge are comprised largely of Lisbon and Lisbon Falls residents. […]
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Complaint challenges Central Maine Power’s meters
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A group of Central Maine Power ratepayers has filed a complaint with state regulators about the utility’s use of so-called “smart meters.” Ed Friedman of Bowdoinham is the lead petitioner in the 19-person complaint filed with the Maine Public Utilities Commission challenging CMP’s smart-meter program, in which CMP is replacing 600,000 […]
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Rescued cats up for adoption Thursday
Some of the kittens rescued from an uninhabited Bowdoin home will be made available for adoption from the Coastal Humane Society in Brunswick on Thursday. Since May 10, more than 15 cats and kittens have been caught at the seemingly ransacked home strewn with garbage, feces and parasites on West Burrough Road, and placed in […]
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Caterpillar infestations reported in Maine towns
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Forest Service is warning residents in five towns to be alert to widespread infestations of browntail moth caterpillars. Officials say the caterpillars are most prevalent in Topsham, Bath, West Bath, Brunswick and Bowdoinham. Forest service entomologist Charlene Donahue says the caterpillar is toxic and can leave people with poison […]