BIDDEFORD — Eugene Arthur Benner, 85, passed on into everlasting life on Wednesday August 10, 2022, at his home surrounded by his family. Gene was born on 06/23/37 in South Thomaston, ME, the son of the late Ginnie (Graves) and Oren Benner. Gene was a veteran having served in the United States Army and the […]
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Obituary: Patricia LeBlanc Cote
BIDDEFORD —Patricia LeBlanc Cote, age 77, of Biddeford, Maine, passed away suddenly on August 26th, 2022 at Maine Medical Center in Portland. She was born on May 10th, 1945, to George and Grace (Cyr) Gagne in Biddeford, Maine. She graduated from Saint Andre’s High School in 1963, and received a two-year business associate’s degree in […]
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Ceremony marks General Lafayette’s Biddeford visit on 1825 America tour
The legislation designating the Lafayette Trail in Maine was sponsored by Sen. Susan Deschambault of Biddeford. The unveiling of the first trail marker to be installed in Maine took place in the city on Aug. 18.
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Major grant allows UNE center to continue pain treatment research
The Center of Biomedical Research Excellence helps discover and develop new therapies, including new, non-opioid drugs and other non-pharmaceutical treatment options,
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Ruralist Lament: Ghost dancing toward the edge
The local paper reports that the year has been dry. And 2020 was dry too: “… Maine’s driest year in almost two decades.” Of course we dirt farmers have been trying to deal with the drought for most of the summer season. The water in the irrigation pond is low. You have to decide which […]
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Acton Fair returns Aug. 25-28
Rides, fair food, cows and oxen, goats and more, and the ever-popular pig scramble return for the 157th year.
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Obituary: Ethel Rapp
BIDDEFORD — Ethel M. Barley McCurry Rapp, 84, of Biddeford, Maine, passed away Aug. 19, 2022, surrounded by her loved ones at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House. Ethel was born on March 18, 1938, in Newburgh, New York, to John and Ethel (McCauley) Barley. Ethel was known by her friends as Maddy. She was a loving […]
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Biddeford takes option on Water Street parcel
The matter will return to the City Council for a vote whether to buy the land
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Growing Biddeford considers new fire station to speed coastal response times
It takes emergency responders over twice as long to reach coastal areas from the city’s only fully-staffed station downtown, the fire chief says.
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BSOOB awarded federal funding for two additional electric buses
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, the ranking member of the Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee, secured the funding for the buses, which will replace two aging diesel models.