Shop Talk: High-tech tools to catch cancer early

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and two of the best tools for prevention are performing a monthly breast self-exam and getting a mammogram or breast ultrasound. Individual women are responsible for the former, and folks like breast care radiologist Amanda Demetri Lewis, D.O., are responsible for the latter. Demetri Lewis works in York […]

Wells native part of team trying to build a better surgical sponge

Jonathan Guerrette is part of a team of inventors competing for a $10,000 prize.

Maine families team up to manage waste

Since being founded by the late Frank Blow in 1953, Blow Bros. septic service has been a family affair. Anchored in Old Orchard Beach, the business was incorporated in 1970, expanding its services to include portable toilets. In 2000, the company merged with the Bestway solid waste service company owned by fellow Old Orchard Beach natives Archie and Paul St. Hilaire. Today, the two families run the business, including at satellite operations in Bangor, Belmont, N.H., and Brentwood, N.H. We recently spoke with James Blow, vice president of the Blow Bros.’ liquid waste division.

Q: Your business slogan or mantra is "We’re No. 1 in the No. 2 business." Are you, in fact, number one in this business?

A: Yes, we are — at least in Maine and New Hampshire.

No-melt fudge is madeto order for U.S. troops    

Roly’s English Fudge owner/maker Marybeth Munroe is guaranteeing that there will be no meltdowns associated with her planned military operation this week — at least as far as the product is concerned. On Saturday, the Kennebunkport shop will take orders of its melt-proof fudge to be shipped to soldiers stationed in Afghanistan or elsewhere on […]

Nobleboro teen hailed as environmental hero

Chloe Maxmin of Nobleboro wins a national prize and continues her work to better the world.

In Biddeford, taking art to the streets

The sixth annual Chalk on the Walk art event, planned for Saturday, has an animal theme.

Old Orchard Beach: Not just a summer town

The nonprofit OOB365 plans community events year round, including an fall celebration this Saturday.

Shop Talk: Nothing like a good cigar

Though smoking has been banned in most public places, DAD’s Cigar Parlor & Tobacco Shoppe offers a welcome respite — at least for smokers of cigars and pipes.

Entering the Biddeford business is like walking into the gentlemen’s parlors of old.

Here, the regulars sit in comfortable lounge chairs, puff on the stogies and ponder life’s issues — their conversation filling the air along with the curling wisps of smoke being emitted from their cigars.

Bethel Historical Society acquires 1835 map drawn by girl

The depiction of Oxford County is valued as a rare form of folk art.

Thanks to Rotarians, Saco clothing charity to get a new home

Rotarians are spearheading a project to construct a building for Open Hands – Open Heart.