BIDDEFORD — The City of Biddeford received $125,000 through funding was awarded through the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring Program. Biddeford is one of four Maine municipalities and well as Penobscot County to receive such funding to be used to hire law enforcement officers. In total, Maine received […]
Dina Mendros
Dina is Executive Editor for the Biddeford-Saco-OOB Courier, the Kennebunk Post, the Scarborough Leader and the South Portland-Cape Elizabeth Sentry. She is a born and bred Mainer living in Saco.
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TA Players to perform Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’
SACO — The Thornton Academy Players present a popular rendition of Homer’s classic, “The Odyssey,” Nov. 18 – 20, at Thornton’s Harry P. Garland II Auditorium in Saco. The Odyssey, written in the eighth or seventh century BC, follows the mythical Greek hero Odysseus’ journey home after the Trojan War and the many perils he […]
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UNE receives $300K grant to boost Maine’s public health workforce
The University of New England has received a gift of $300,000 from the Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation to support scholarships for UNE Online’s Graduate Programs in Public Health. Maine faces a public health workforce shortage that is projected to get larger in the near future. This is of greatest concern to many Maine communities where […]
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‘Christmas My Way’: A Sinatra holiday bash at City Theater in Biddeford
BIDDEFORD — It’s beginning to look a lot like a free fresh, knocked out, coo-coo, groovy Sinatra Rat Pack Christmas at City Theater in Biddeford. Ring in the holidays with “Christmas My Way,” a fresh, swingin’ musical conceived by David Grapes and Todd Olson. “Christmas My Way” includes classic Sinatra tunes to seasonal favorites Rat […]
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AARP Maine’s 2022 Winner of Annual Andrus Award for Community Service is Saco woman
The honor goes to retired hospital administrator Jean Saunders.
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Letters to the editor, Nov. 10
St. James students should get free lunches To the editor, I just got through reading Mr. Ryan Fecteau’s article in the Courier about celebrating free meals week at the Biddeford High School cafeteria. My husband and I volunteer at the St. James School cafeteria and noticed that fewer children have school lunch, and I asked […]
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UNE students help brighten downtown Biddeford for the holidays
BIDDEFORD — Twenty students from the University of New England recently fanned out in downtown Biddeford on a sunny Saturday morning to spread holiday cheer and brighten the holidays for residents and those less fortunate. The event was held a bit earlier in the season this year, but students had no idea temperatures would be […]
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Democrats win Maine Legislature elections for Scarborough
SCARBOROUGH — In unofficial results, Anne Carney, a Democrat will return to the Maine Senate to represent residents of District 29. She had 14,588 votes compared to her opponent, Republican John Lewis, with 4,699 votes. SD 29 includes Cape Elizabeth, South Portland and part of Scarborough. “I am so grateful to the people of District […]
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Oak Hill Players perform ‘Little Shop of Horrors’
Noah Lyford, playing Seymour, and Anish Pradeep, playing Mr. Mushnik, in a scene from Oak Hill Players production of “Little Shop Of Horrors.” The show is running at Winslow Homer Center for the Arts from Nov. 4 to 13. Suggested age for audience members is ages 10 and older. For details and tickets go to […]
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Guest Column: Scarborough library proposed expansion prepares for current and future needs
The public library has always been the place where a community can combine and pool assets to provide resources and tools that individuals and groups use for a wide range of benefits — for education, for self-improvement, for simple enjoyment. Traditionally, those resources have taken the form of the library’s collection (books, videos, magazines, etc.) […]