SANFORD — Loreen Terroni has spent a career in the company of children, pre-K boys and girls whose parents enrolled them in York County Community Action Corporation’s Head Start program. But she didn’t plan it that way. Back in 1982, newly arrived in Maine from Pennsylvania, Loreen and her young family lived in Westbrook. “My […]

SACO – Seventh-grader Sebastian Shields received a hero’s sendoff as he left Saco Middle School on Friday afternoon. Sebastian was headed the next day with his family to Washington, D.C., to compete in the 92nd Scripps National Spelling Bee. Students lined the halls and the walkway outside the school with homemade signs and chanting, “196,” […]

BIDDEFORD — The Lincoln Mill clock tower, which for years had sat rotting on the ground next to the building it once topped, was saved days before it was due to be chopped up and tossed in a dumpster. Five years later, a group of residents is again trying to save the iconic clock tower […]

YORK COUNTY — Residents in York County’s cities and its small towns will mark Memorial Day on  with parades and ceremonies to honor veterans who died while serving in the military. While most events are on Monday, Arundel’s service is scheduled for Sunday. Here is a list of some of them: In Alfred, a parade […]

Fishermen already dealing with a dramatic reduction in the amount of a key bait fish they are allowed to harvest will likely face an additional cut next year that could drive up the price of lobster for consumers. Regulators on the East Coast are contending with a drop in the population of herring, a key […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Jack Kuntz picked his way through the rows of gravestones at Forest City Cemetery in South Portland hunting for fellow veterans, with a makeshift hole digger in hand and dozens of American flags tucked under his suspenders. The 70-year-old Marine veteran from Portland scanned each headstone for any mention of military, police […]

One of the oldest bald eagles ever documented in America died over the Memorial Day weekend at a wild bird sanctuary in Maine. The female bald eagle was banded as a nestling in Canada in June 1983, rescued in Maine in the spring of 2017 after an apparent fight with another eagle and euthanized Saturday […]

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A powerful magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck a remote part of the Amazon jungle in Peru early Sunday, collapsing buildings and knocking out power to some areas but causing only one reported death. The quake struck at 2:41 a.m. and was centered in a vast nature preserve 57 miles (92 kilometers) east […]

LONDON (AP) — The race to succeed British Prime Minister Theresa May is heating up, the field of Conservative contenders is quickly growing and the focus is squarely on how to handle Brexit. Former House of Commons leader Andrea Leadsom and former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab joined the fray Saturday night. Both had earlier resigned […]

HALLOWELL — Lori Beaucage of Belgrade walked around the Hallowell Cemetery while her car was being repaired at a nearby auto body shop earlier this month and was dismayed by damage to some tombstones. “I think it’s sad,” Beaucage said of the estimated 10 broken stones she saw, noting that one monument was broken in […]