ANSON — A Madison man was killed Friday after losing control of a motorcycle he had just purchased and was riding home on, police said. Barry K. Morriss, 66, was traveling south on Valley Road around noon Friday when he lost control, went into the shoulder of the roadway and was thrown from the motorcycle […]

Hunger rates have grown more rapidly in Maine than any other state over the past decade, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and between 2014 and 2016, more than 16 percent of Maine households struggled to put food on the table. The Brunswick Topsham Land Trust Farmers’ Market at Crystal Spring Farm is trying […]

FARMINGTON — A Franklin County justice sentenced a Rumford man Friday to serve three years of a 10-year sentence for driving drunk and under the influence of drugs when his car crashed in Weld on May 31, 2018, and a Dixfield man was killed. Upon his release from prison, Ethyn Eric Buotte, 19, who pleaded […]

BIDDEFORD — On Tuesday, the Biddeford City Council will determine whether to transfer the Hills Beach Fire Station to the Hills Beach Association. The association hopes to use the station as a community center for the area. The 2,756-square-foot building was built by the Hills Beach Volunteer Fire and Rescue Unit in 1984 on land […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Instead of walking the halls of Old Orchard Beach High School, graduating senior Cierra Albert has spent the past year in another country immersing herself in another culture. Albert is spending a year with a host family in Krassolzheim, Germany, through Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange, a scholarship program jointly funded and administered […]

KITTERY —People who commute to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, those considering a career there and  those interested in the shipyard and the area are invited to take an online survey and drop by a public meeting on Wednesday to hear and talk about transportation, housing, transit funding, road capacity and a host of other […]

BIDDEFORD — A public presentation hosted by the Biddeford Cultural and Heritage Center on Monday evening will focus on one of Biddeford’s most historic social service facilities. Dr. Michael Guignard will discuss “St. Andre’s Home: A History”  during a presentation from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday in the basement of St. Joseph’s Church on Elm Street […]

Community members lined up Thursday at the Saco Community Center to get lunch at the SENIORity program’s spring barbecue. Facilities Manager Don Roth and Parks and Recreation Family and Youth Program Coordinator Steve Brown cooked the food while other city staff members served it. This was the sixth annual event, and had the largest turnout […]

BOSTON (AP) — The man who accused Kevin Spacey of groping him at a bar in 2016 deleted text messages that would support Spacey’s claims of innocence, the actor’s lawyer said in court documents filed Friday. Defense attorney Alan Jackson is urging the court to order prosecutors to hand over a “complete and unaltered” forensic […]

It took Chris Wasileski and his father, John Wasileski, 25 years to complete development on their company’s magnum opus, an upscale, age-restricted community of 400 homes called OceanView at Falmouth. Now the father-and-son company, Topsham-based Sea Coast Management Co., has embarked on its next project, an age-restricted community of as many as 105 homes to […]