HOLLIS — State Rep. Donald Marean has unenrolled from the Republican Party. Marean is a retired small business owner and lives in Hollis. He is serving his third consecutive term as the representative for House District 16, which covers Hollis and part of Buxton and Saco. He also served in the position from 2004 to […]

ALFRED – A former Massachusetts priest found guilty of sexually abusing a young altar boy on trips to Maine in the late 1980s has been scheduled to be sentenced on March 5. Ronald Paquin, 76, was convicted on 11 of 24 counts of gross sexual misconduct at York County Superior Court on Nov. 28. Keith […]

YORK COUNTY — People who serve on juries in Maine are paid $15 a day, a rate that Rep. Donna Bailey of Saco believed has stayed the same for decades. Bailey, a longtime attorney and former York County Judge of Probate, has submitted a bill, L.D. 9, which would increase the daily rate for jurors […]

The notoriously congested interchange connecting Interstate 295 and Franklin Street in Portland is slated for a $5.4 million reconstruction. Portland and the Maine Department of Transportation plan to widen the entrance ramps at Exit 7 and redesign part of Franklin Street, a broad thoroughfare that serves as a primary gateway to the downtown. Traffic engineers […]

BANGOR — Data shows that Maine electricity customers had longer and more frequent power outages than those in any other state in 2017. Maine Public Radio reported that data collected by the federal Energy Information Administration shows Maine electricity users averaged three service interruptions in 2017. The service failures lasted over 40 hours on average. […]

Former Maine human services commissioner Mary Mayhew’s tenure as head of the federal Medicaid program has ended less than three months after it began. The former head of Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services and Republican primary candidate for governor in 2018 has resigned to take a position in the administration of the soon-to-be […]

ARUNDEL — The design and construction of the proposed new Arundel Municipal Facility was discussed at a special Board of Selectmen’s meeting in December and after interviewing five different firms, the Town Municipal Building Committee has chosen the Port City Architecture Team of Portland to work on the project. The company was chosen based on their […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Despite widespread attention and protest over gender inequality in film, a new study finds that the number of female directors in the top 250 domestic grossing films last year dipped to 8 percent. That was down 3 percentage points from 2017, according to the 21st annual Celluloid Ceiling report released Thursday […]

SANFORD – The following people were arrested or issued a summons by Sanford Police Dec. 21 to Jan. 3: • Melody G. Emerson, 40, Sanford was arrested on a warrant on River Street. • Alisha L. Jones, 26, Sanford, was issued a summons charging shoplifting theft on Main Street. • Eric Gordinas, 40, Sanford, was […]