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"Wheels" to bring transit to Brunswick-Topsham

by Annee Tara Coastal Journal contributor BRUNSWICK - Every once in a while a project comes along that brings diverse members of the community together to solve a problem that each has identified. "Wheels" is just such a project.
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BIW to cut jobs

BATH - By February 1, General Dynamic will lay off 73 workers at BIW. According to an announcement by the leadership of the Local S-6 of the Machinists union, the layoffs will include 20 shipfitters, 16 insulators, 15 preservation technicians, 12 welders and 10 machine operators.
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Emergency heating aid released to Maine

AUGUSTA – Maine will receive an additional $8.8 million from the federal government to support heating assistance for low-income families.
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A glimmer of soul

The Killers - Sam’s Town

by B. J. Carter

Coastal Journal staff

Sam’s Town inspired the inevitable backlash they had coming their way, and if ever a band was asking for it, it was the Killers. Frontman Brandon Flowers promoted the album as “possibly the best recording of the last 25 years” before it was even finished. What we now know is that Sam’s Town is not the best album of the last 25 years. It wasn’t the best album of 2006 either, not by a long shot. Now that we have some distance on it - distance being the whole point of this column - I’d say that it’s about as good as their glam debut Hot Fuss, which is to say it has at least two great singles and a couple of solid tunes, while the rest scuffles along uncomfortably. But I’m not even really interested in the quality of Sam’s Town from song to song. I’m interested in the notion that, as critics bitterly decried upon its release, Flowers and the Killers have nothing to say.