SANFORD — The 35-day partial shutdown of the federal government played a role in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Stenton Trust project timeline, a spokesman said. Now, the River Street remediation is set to move forward this spring with removal of asbestos in the front tower, called Tower A, and with a tentative May 1 […]

YORK COUNTY — The median sales price for existing homes in York County was nearly 10 percent higher in the three month period of Nov. 1 through Jan. 31 than in the same time frame a year ago, but the volume was off by more than 13 percent. That is according to the Maine Association […]

ROCKLAND — A 37-year-old South Thomaston woman accused of bludgeoning an 83-year-old Owls Head woman to death after being caught stealing her debit card remains held without bail after her initial court appearance. Sarah Richards is charged with murder in the death of Helen Carver. Richards had been shoveling snow for the wheelchair-bound woman this […]

SKOWHEGAN — Chickadee or not chickadee? It’s the Maine state bird, this flitting, cheery-sounding bird, but which one is it – the boreal chickadee or the black-capped chickadee? That question is to be addressed Wednesday when state Rep. Betty Austin, D-Skowhegan, and others are scheduled to make a presentation before the Legislature’s State and Local […]

WACO, Texas (AP) — Chip and Joanna Gaines’ latest home project is quite the fixer-upper. The Texas couple made famous by HGTV’s “Fixer Upper” home improvement show closed last week on the historic but rundown Cottonland Castle in Waco. A spokesman for the Gaines’ business, Magnolia, says the couple has long admired the castle and previously made […]

MIAMI (AP) — A former worker on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign claims in a lawsuit filed Monday that he abruptly grabbed her by the hand and planted an unwanted kiss on her face during a Florida meeting with staff and volunteers. Alva Johnson, who lives in the Huntsville, Alabama area, contends in the federal […]

The Regional School Unit 21 board will meet Monday night in Kennebunk to discuss for the first time racist incidents reported in recent Maine Sunday Telegram/Portland Press Herald stories. The meeting originally was scheduled to take place behind closed doors but was changed to allow part of the session to be public to discuss the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The segregation-era road-trip drama “Green Book” was crowned best picture at the 91st Academy Awards on Sunday, handing Hollywood’s top award to a film seen as a feel-good throwback by some and ridiculed as an outdated inversion of “Driving Miss Daisy” by others. In a year where Hollywood could have made […]

SKOWHEGAN — A group including Native Americans who say they support the use of tribal imagery and nicknames in sports told backers of the Skowhegan “Indians” name Sunday they are honored by it and that to encourage the disuse of the name is a disservice to Native American heritage. “It’s the first time I’ve been […]

NEWFIELD — On a late winter morning in the quiet village of Newfield, at Curran Homestead, formerly known as Willowbrook, young people engaged in an activity that could have easily taken place 100 years, or 200 years earlier. They cleaned and carded large pelts of Shetland fleece, spun it with drop spindles, observed the dyeing […]