OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Residents in Old Orchard Beach voted 298 to 230 to approve a $15 million fiscal year 2020 Regional School Unit 23 budget. The RSU 23 budget, covering education in Old Orchard Beach, was approved at Tuesday’s referendum. The budget is $210,000 more than the school budget proposal approved by the school […]

ALFRED – Voters handed incumbent Selectmen Glenn “Doc” Dochtermann a decisive victory in Tuesday’s election in Alfred, outpacing his closest opponent in the three-way race more than 3 to 1. Dochtermann, who now begins his fourth term on the three-person Selectman’s Board, earned 473 votes, according to  unofficial totals from Town Clerk  Donna Buckley. His […]

SACO — Erosion brought about by the Saco Jetty is often referred to as a Camp Ellis problem, but Saco Mayor Marston Lovell says it should be thought of as a Saco Bay problem. The Saco River Jetty begins at the mouth of the Saco River on the edge of the Camp Ellis neighborhood in […]

SANFORD – A company with roots five generations deep in the Maine forest products industry is up and running in Sanford, taking sawmill residue and turning it into wood pellets to heat homes in Maine and across New England. The pellets are sold wholesale to independent dealers in Maine – including just up the road […]

ALFRED — A Buxton selectwoman accused of assaulting a town employee is asking for the court to consider dismissing the charge, given that the two had a long-time, friendly working relationship in which she would occasionally give him a “Gibbs smack” to the back of the head. Jean Harmon, 55, vice chairwoman of the Buxton […]

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden repeatedly laid into each other while traveling Tuesday in the battleground state of Iowa, unleashing verbal attacks that at times felt more appropriate for the final weeks before Election Day than a lazy summer about 17 months before voters go to the […]

WATERBORO – Voters in Waterboro elected two incumbent selectmen from a field of three candidates Tuesday and approved the municipal budget for the coming year, along with a vote validating the RSU 57 budget. Incumbent Tim Neill prevailed in his bid for re-election to the Selectman’s Board, despite a sign campaign against him. In a […]

FARMINGTON — A man who worked as a camp counselor agreed Monday to plead guilty to assaulting a woman during a party attended by counselors and others in Rangeley last summer. Peter Michael Rocafort-Stravecky, 20, of San Juan, Puerto Rico entered the plea in Franklin County Superior Court in the presence of his attorney, Walter […]

Kennebunk on Tuesday became the second town in Maine to ban the intentional release of balloons and the first community to prohibit people from displaying balloons outside. Residents overwhelmingly supported the measure by a vote of 852 to 376. “Kennebunk’s strong stand against balloon trash in the ocean has not just saved countless animal lives […]

PORTLAND – Maine Medical Center received sizable donations from two prominent Maine families on Tuesday – totaling $10.5 million. Paul and Giselaine Coulombe of Boothbay Harbor, and their daughter, Michelle Coulombe-Hagerty, donated $7.5 million to Maine Med. The East Tower, which is getting a two-story addition as part of the hospital’s ongoing expansion project, will […]