A proposal to merge two middle schools is being forced through, residents tell school board members.

WARREN – Brooke Walton of Warren found something to be happy about every day. It could be a visit from her young niece, her sister’s progress in school or her mother’s success in her nursing career. “Brooke was happy right up to the very end,” said her father, Mark Walton. “Just an absolute joy, in […]

SOUTH PORTLAND – Thirty-one positions, including teachers, assistant coaches and education technicians, would be eliminated under the $39.4 million school budget Superintendent Suzanne Godin presented to the Board of Education on Wednesday. Twenty-nine of those job eliminations could involve layoffs. The proposal would result in a property tax rate of $10.26 per $1,000 of assessed […]

Helen Harrison of Sanford had a feisty streak that emerged at a young age. It was apparent when she joined the Navy during World War II, when she serenaded her future husband outside a hospital and when she unexpectedly broke into joyful dance. ”Everybody loved her,” said her daughter, Anne Harrison of Sanford. ”I think […]

In a favorite family photograph, Nancy Riley is smiling, basket in hand, in the secret garden behind her Berwick home. The perennials around her are thriving — fittingly so, given the plants’ role in the business and family life she cultivated on the property. Mrs. Riley died Sunday at age 59 after a battle with […]