YORK COUNTY – With all six towns reporting, voters in RSU 57 Tuesday approved the $44.6 million school budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. Overall, unofficial tallies in the district that includes Alfred, Limerick, Lyman, Newfield, Shapleigh and Waterboro show the budget was approved 1,196 to 606. One community, Newfield, rejected the […]

Most municipalities across York County and statewide are casting validation ballots on school referendums – and some on other matters, like choosing a selectman or two for the coming fiscal year, or voting on a municipal warrant.  At 8 a.m. in Waterboro, one hour after the polls opened in that community, voting was light, but […]

SACO — City Administrator Kevin Sutherland of Saco is not seeking renewal of his contract, and will work through the end of the year. Sutherland made the announcement at a Saco City Council workshop on Monday night, reading from a letter he wrote to the council. He requested that the council shift from discussions of […]

SANFORD — Owners hope to break ground on a new, 95-bed senior care facility in Sanford in October. Daniel Maguire of developer Sandy River Corporation told the Sanford City Council last week that the facility, which will feature rehabilitation beds, long-term care beds, and 30 memory care beds, has earned its required Certificate of Need […]

SANFORD — Take a large measure of creativity and enthusiasm and mix in talent, curiosity and smarts and what do you get? You get Paige Wales, one of 218 members of the Class of 2019 – the first class to graduate from the brand new Sanford High School and Regional Technical Center. Wales, 18, who […]

KENNEBUNK — As the school years wraps up, students at St. James School in Biddeford had one more assignment to complete over the weekend and for some, it was a lesson they will never forget. Throughout the school year, St. James science students have been able to study dozens of marine creatures through a “Touch Tank,” a […]

BIDDEFORD — All married couples, particularly those celebrating milestone anniversaries, are invited to receive a special blessing from Bishop Robert P. Deeley at the Silver and Gold Mass at 4 p.m. Saturday, June 22, at St. Joseph Church, 178 Elm St. in Biddeford. A reception will follow in the church hall. The annual Mass is a testimony […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — After months of jabbing each other from afar, President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden will overlap Tuesday in Iowa, a state that’s critical to both their political futures. For Biden, a convincing win in next year’s caucuses would cement him as the Democratic front-runner and reinforce his chief argument […]

A Fryeburg man traveling at high speed had to ditch his motorcycle to avoid colliding with a slow moving farm tractor, and was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries, police said. Jonah Weese, 35, of Fryeburg was driving a 2007 Harley Davidson north on Menotomy Road Sunday night when he encountered the tractor operated by a […]