SACO — More than 200 Thornton Academy students and community members stood on the sidewalk in front of the school on Wednesday afternoon protesting the recent elimination of eight staff positions. Students sang chants such as “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Budget cuts have cut to go,” and held signs. Motorists passing by on Route 1 […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — A $15 million proposed Old Orchard Beach school budget will go to voters in June for a final vote. The school board for Regional School Unit 23, covering the town of Old Orchard Beach, voted on a $14.8 million school budget proposal for fiscal year 2020. The budget proposal went for […]

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s as if Mick Jagger is saying “Start Me Up.” The 75-year-old rocker tweeted a video Wednesday of him dancing around a studio in front of a mirror weeks after he underwent medical treatment , reportedly for a heart valve issue. The treatment forced the Rolling Stones to postpone its No Filter tour. Jagger was […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A newly married couple, a pilot who used his family’s savings to buy his own plane, a devoted family man from Australia and an office manager at an insurance company with a vivacious personality and a heart of gold were among the six victims in this week’s deadly midair collision of […]

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Russia and the United States voiced hope Tuesday that badly strained relations could begin to improve despite wide differences on multiple fronts and deep mutual suspicion deepened by Russian meddling in American elections. With tensions running high over Iran, Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed vindication from the […]

KENNEBUNK — While attending high school in Scotch Plains Township, New Jersey, Joan Fricke often wondered why her father was seldom home, but believed that his work was sure to help the United States prevail in World War II. Her father, Victor Joseph Duplin Sr., had attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as […]

SACO — The Saco City Council approved the Fiscal Year 2020 budget which will add an estimated 11 cents to the tax rate on Monday evening, but during deliberations, the council reduced the school department’s proposed FY 2020 budget, to begin July 1, by nearly $1.4 million. The vote was made after midnight as Monday […]

ALFRED — Jury selection for the trial of Peter Leon, the Wells pastor accused by police of befriending an elderly incapacitated woman and then allegedly attempting to gain control of her finances, has been set for Sept. 17. However, Leon will first face an Aug. 8 appearance at York County Superior Court, where a motion […]

SACO — In light of recent staff reductions, some Thornton Academy students are asking for a dialogue with school faculty. Thornton Academy is a private high school and middle school in Saco that serves publicly funded students, tuition-paying students from local communities and private-pay boarding students. As Saco does not have a public high school, […]

SANFORD — There’s a small memorial stone at Notre Dame cemetery in Springvale etched with the name Paul Lesperance. The granite memorial gives the year of his birth, 1908, and of his death in 1944. It notes he was awarded a purple heart. His stone, and those of many others who fought and died for […]