PORTLAND — A 27-year-old Portland man who was driving a car when it crashed in Bowdoinham 10 days ago, killing his passenger, has been charged with drunken driving and manslaughter, Maine State Police said Wednesday.  Maine Public Safety Department spokesman Stephen McCausland said in a press release that Matthew Doucette had been drinking in the Old […]

FALMOUTH — Sherpa’s travels from Boston to Falmouth may have been fraught with danger, filled with adventure and full of close calls. Or not. The 1-year-old tortoise-shell cat isn’t likely to share her story and her owners, Kathe and John McKenna, of Montgomery Street in Boston, have no idea how she found her way from […]

CUMBERLAND — The Planning Board unanimously approved the site plan for a Main Street credit union Tuesday, allowing the project to move forward despite a pending lawsuit. Atlantic Regional Federal Credit Union was issued a contract zone by the Town Council in March to build a branch on the former Chase Flower Shop property. Abutters […]

FALMOUTH — Many people picture horrible conditions and unloved, unhappy children packed into cramped spaces when they think of some orphanages overseas. But Flying Kites in Kenya is different, Gina Campbell, of Falmouth, said. “Their premise is that education is the only way to permanently be able to break the cycle of poverty,” she said. […]

YARMOUTH — Like his mother did last year, Miles Kenney-Lazar will leave the country for nearly a year on a Fulbright-sponsored trip. Kenney-Lazar, a recent graduate of the University of Miami, will study the socioeconomic effects of rubber growing on rural households in northern Laos. His mother, Ana Lazar, is an associate professor at the University […]

YARMOUTH — Visitors to the 44th annual Yarmouth Clam Festival were less concerned about the threat of red tide and the economy than expected, and enjoyed the free entertainment and good weekend weather. Food vendors said people spent their money on clams, steamers and lobsters all weekend, and while sales were down for a few craft […]

YARMOUTH — John Day retired a year ago after 28 years of teaching at Greely High School. He relaxed for three days, then accepted a position as the Director of the Palmina F. & Stephen S. Pace Galleries of Art at Fryeburg Academy. For free. Day, a Yarmouth resident, attended Fryeburg Academy as a teen and […]

Noah Martinez, left, a 4-year-old from Scarborough, takes a ride with Tom Cary in the Cumberland resident’s 1909 Ford. Martinez and Cary were at the Falmouth Memorial Library for Library Sundae. The event included a gathering of antique cars, valve cover races, music and ice cream sundaes. (Paul Cunningham photo) Falmouth Public Library Director Lyn […]

Hundreds of demonstrators march down Congress Street in Portland on Saturday after a rally in Monument Square in support of a government-run, single payer health care system. Wayne Gelston of Raymond, one of the minority counter-protesters in Monument Square, listens patiently to the Portland’s Bill Cataldo, who is in favor of a pro-single payer healthcare […]

FALMOUTH — Police say a local man took a hatchet to the entrance door and drive-through window of two Route 1 businesses Monday night. Peter Hamilton, 58, “went on a rampage with a hatchet” at about 9 p.m., shattering the exterior door that led to a lobby with separate interior entrances to Subway and Dunkin’ Donuts, […]