The Times Record

BATH — The Maine Office of Tourism’s top official likely had to set her alarm clock to beat sunrise Saturday in order to take in downtown Bath, as advertised. Full Story »

BATH — A Red Cross blood drive hosted by Bath Middle School seventh-graders Friday offered lessons that spanned the educational spectrum. Full Story »

WOOLWICH — A Woolwich woman was killed this weekend in a car crash on Route 127 less than a mile from her home, according to the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Department. Full Story »

BRUNSWICK — A Brunswick teen was charged Thursday with arson and five other teens with lesser crimes in connection with an Oct. 29 fire in a vacant building on Mill Street. Full Story »

BRUNSWICK — With snowplows revving up for the winter and parking bans not far off, some local towing companies are objecting to what they say is an unfair decision by town government to allow competitors to remain in the towing rotation despite serious overcharging issues over recent years. Full Story »

BATH — Bath city officials are laying the groundwork for an eventual sale of the former nunnery building on Sheridan Road. Full Story »

BRUNSWICK — A modified school lockdown drill at Brunswick High School on Thursday revealed more than a well-developed emergency management plan, when bomb-sniffing dogs detected drugs packaged for resale and scales in a student’s car. Full Story »

BRUNSWICK — As students at St. John’s Catholic School line up late this morning to receive H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccinations and Brunswick public schools begin flu clinics next week, Mid-coast health-care professionals are coping with what Maine’s top heath official calls a “surge” in the virus. Full Story »

With the exception of Question 1, the effort to repeal the gay marriage law, Mid-coast voters agreed with the rest of the state on Tuesday’s seven ballot questions. The following gives the voter breakdown for each of the communities in The Times Record’s readership area. Full Story »

WEST BATH — Before his father died in 1996, Frank Vigneau Jr. wanted to thank him for not becoming a Hollywood star. Full Story »

BRUNSWICK — Despite a difficult economy, the United Way of Mid Coast Maine surpassed its goal this year and raised more than $2 million for partner agencies in Bruns-wick, Harpswell and Sagadahoc and Lincoln counties. Full Story »

BATH — Bath Iron Works is studying the prospect of expanding its massive 106-foot-tall Ultra Hall as it anticipates significant contract talks with the Navy. Full Story »

FREEPORT — A 14-year-old Freeport boy is in critical condition at Maine Medical Center today after he was struck by a car on Hunter Road on Wednesday night. Full Story »

BATH — With few funding sources available for marketing base properties to companies that might move here, the group leading the civilian redevelopment of Brunswick Naval Air Station is turning to area municipalities for help. Full Story »

TOPSHAM — Donald Russell won a seat on the Board of Selectmen by a margin of 197 votes — 2,096 to 1,899 — Tuesday against James X. Morris in a race that matched experience versus the promise of youth. Full Story »

BOWDOINHAM — An attempt to arrest a man on Post Road Sunday morning triggered a bizarre pursuit by police in a car and on foot. The chase ended near White Road in Richmond. Full Story »

TOPSHAM — According to Topsham police, an Edgecomb man was summonsed for six counts of theft by unauthorized taking Sunday, and two counts of receiving stolen property. Full Story »

WOOLWICH — A Tuesday morning fire badly damaged a single-family home on a Woolwich farm known for its Wensleydale sheep. Full Story »

BRUNSWICK — By nearly a 2-to-1 margin, Brunswick voters on Tuesday returned At-large Town Councilor Joanne King to the Town Council in a decisive victory over Town Councilor Karen Klatt, who currently represents District 4. Full Story »

BATH — Mainers have voted against scuttling the state’s school district consolidation law. Full Story »

AUGUSTA — Maine voters rejected by wide margins two initiatives aimed at controlling taxation and government spending at state and local levels. The so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR 2) failed for the third time in five years, as did an initiative to reduce automotive excise taxes. Full Story »

PORTLAND — Cecelia Burnett and Ann Swanson had already set their wedding date. When they joined about 1,000 other gay marriage supporters for an election night party Tuesday in a Holiday Inn ballroom, they hoped to celebrate the vote that would make it possible. Full Story »

FREEPORT — Officials in Regional School Unit 5 — the district that encompasses Freeport, Dur-ham and Pownal — are bracing for a drastic cut in state aid to education for the current year. School officials fear they’ll have to cut approximately $650,000 from the budget crafted to pay the new regional district’s expenses between now and June 30, 2010. Full Story »

BRUNSWICK — A 37-year-old man was arrested Monday afternoon after allegedly threatening his wife and another man with a loaded handgun. Full Story »

TOPSHAM — Following an executive session Thursday regarding Town Manager James Ashe’s annual performance evaluation, the five-person Board of Selectmen voted to give Ashe a raise and a “thumbs up” on the job he’s been doing. Full Story »