TIMES RECORD • September 8, 2025
On a rainy morning Friday, a handful of volunteers got to work on the Brunswick Town Mall, picking up cigarette butts, wrappers and other litter. They were participating in a Coastal Cleanup with the Friends of Casco Bay, part of a series of summer litter-picking events scattered across the Casco Bay region. “All of the drops of water that fall today, eventually, if they’re not evaporated, make it into the Androscoggin River and into the bay, and we want to make sure that it stays clean and safe for the animals, the people, the plants,” said Katrina Venhuizen, Friends of Casco Bay cleanups coordinator.