The department gave millions of dollars in bonuses to avoid claims that needed extra work to document veterans’ injuries.

Mark Bedell is well known in the film industry. If you don’t recognize his name, you may recognize his work in TV shows like “Alias” and “24” or movies like “The Eighteenth Hour,” and even locally from the Haunted Mansion at Funtown/Spalshtown USA. Still don’t recognize the name? That may be because Bedell is a […]

Mark Bedell is well known in the film industry. If you don’t recognize his name, you may recognize his work in TV shows like “Alias” and “24” or movies like “The Eighteenth Hour,” and even locally from the Haunted Mansion at Funtown/Spalshtown USA. Still don’t recognize the name? That may be because Bedell is a […]

Whitney Bridge on Duck Pond Road has reopened to traffic after being closed for most of the summer for rebuilding. The project was completed three days early and on budget at $200,000 by T. Buck Construction, despite two weeks of delays caused by overhead utility moves. Construction work cut off neighbors on Duck Pond Road […]

GORHAM – Members of Gorham’s Boy Scout Troop 73 have quite a story to tell classmates when school starts next week – a harrowing tale of a Scout leader and his son, dumped from their canoe into rapids on the Allagash River. “It happened in a heartbeat,” Chuck Bellantoni said about the canoe capsize he […]

Mike Keon, a former commercial fisherman originally from Lowell, Mass., and Anthony Allen, who grew up in Nantucket, Mass., started Otto Pizza on Congress Street in Portland in 2009. Their pizza — including their signature mashed potato, bacon and scallion — has since won national recognition, including a rating as Maine’s best in Food Network […]

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The media frenzy is gone, and the backup QB’s slow start has him fighting for a roster spot.