The National Science Foundation has awarded Bigelow Laboratory in Boothbay Harbor a $603,631 grant to study iron oxidizing bacteria.

NORRIDGEWOCK — A woman was rushed to a hospital by helicopter Thursday afternoon after her car struck a driveway embankment.

Maine’s photographic community is mourning the death of Madeleine de Sinety, just days before her first solo exhibition in the United States is scheduled to close at the Portland Museum of Art.

Cold weather and holidays are taking a toll on Occupy Maine. Only five people attended the daily general assembly at 6 p.m. Thursday in Lincoln Park, far fewer than the two dozen people who were attending earlier this month, and the 30 to 40 people in November and October.

At 1:02 p.m., theft was reported at Mid Maine Maintenance Inc. on Northern Avenue.