The Bath Area Family YMCA has broken ground on an early learning center, the final phase in a multi-year expansion that will bring capacity up to 200 at its Centre Street campus, when completed by fall 2026.
The plan is to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars over the next several months to upgrade building systems and improvements like a new boiler, siding and roofing.
The ship will be named after Cpl. Kyle Carpenter, who received the Medal of Honor in 2014 after shielding a fellow Marine from a grenade blast in Afghanistan.
Maine’s First Ship is at “a pivotal transitional place” as it creates programming for the reconstruction of the 1607 sailing ship Virginia, said the nonprofit’s new director.
Amy Vendt, who has served as the COO at the Bath Area YMCA for two years, steps in on an interim basis to replace Rob Gray, who left for a YMCA post in Alabama.
The public-private partnership, paid for in part with a Maine DOT grant, is expected to make it easier and more affordable for employees to commute from Portland to Bath.
Bath Housing Authority is finishing construction on its first new housing project in 40 years targeted to households whose income does not exceed 80% of the area mean income.