SANFORD — The city of Sanford is spending about $1.4 million each year in work to the city’s streets and roads, but to keep up with the work plan, it should be spending $1 million more each year, City Manager Steve Buck told the Sanford Budget Committee on Thursday. Now, the budget board is grappling […]

WELLS — An agreement between York County Community College and the University of Maine Augusta will allow YCCC students to transfer credits received for a Veterinary Technology Associates Degree toward a Veterinary Technology Baccalaureate Degree at UMA. The announcement of the agreement was made Monday at the Maine Veterinary Medical Center in Scarborough. “This agreement represents […]

AUGUSTA – Opponents of Central Maine Power’s proposal to build a high-voltage transmission line through Maine are urging lawmakers to order state environmental regulators to consider the project’s impacts on greenhouse gas emissions when reviewing the application. Dozens of people have gathered at the State House to testify on both sides of a bill that […]

SACO – A proposed $41.8 million fiscal year 2020 school budget received its first round of approval Wednesday night. After more than three hours of deliberation Wednesday night, the School Board voted to approve the suggested budget. The budget still needs to be approved by the city council, then in June by voters at a […]

A 22-year-old man from Morrill was charged Friday with murder, accused of shooting and killing another man earlier in the day, News Center Maine (WCSH) has reported. Austin McDevitt is charged with the murder of Shane Sauer, 26, of Belfast. The shooting took place at a home on Oak Hill Road, near the Belfast city […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Months after being fired over old tweets, James Gunn has been rehired as director of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.” Representatives for the Walt Disney Co. and for Gunn on Friday confirmed that Gunn has been reinstated as writer-director of the Marvel franchise he has guided from the start. Gunn […]

Scarborough school officials announced Friday that they are seeking applicants for the principal’s position at Scarborough High School. The district posted the job opening on ServingSchools.com and emailed a letter to the school community from Assistant Superintendent Jo Anne Sizemore and Director of Special Services Alison Marchese, who head a principal’s search committee including high […]

KENNEBUNK — The Astronomical Society of Northern New England recently welcomed Professor Fabian Kislat of the University of New Hampshire’s Department of Physics and Astronomy during a meeting at The New School in Kennebunk. Professor Kislat received his Doctorate in Physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.  Subsequently, he was a post-doc and research […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia woman parlayed a feeling to purchase 30 lottery tickets with the same numbers to win $150,000. Deborah Brown says she purchased 20 Pick 4 tickets with the numbers 1-0-3-1 after seeing those numbers “a couple of times during the day.” She then bought 10 more because she was really […]

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Mass shootings at two mosques full of worshippers attending Friday prayers killed 49 people on what the prime minister called “one of New Zealand’s darkest days,” as authorities charged one person, detained three others and defused explosive devices in what appeared to be a carefully planned racist attack. Prime Minister […]