ALFRED — When Sandra Howe began thinking about a mural she’d been commissioned to paint at the Alfred Shaker Museum, she looked to some historical sketches that showed details of where buildings stood in the once-thriving United Society of Believers community in about 1875. She looked at engravings by Phares Goist, an artist who specialized […]

SANFORD — When her 2-month-old baby boy stopped breathing, a young mother said she drew on what she’d learned back at her New Hampshire junior high school to perform cardio pulmonary resuscitation. Apparently fully recovered, baby Kayden Reynolds smiled, drank from a baby bottle and snuggled close to his mother, Christina Reynolds, earlier this week. […]

LYMAN — A new roof has been installed on the Cousens Memorial School, the first of many steps in shoring up the building for possible future use. The building was purchased by the town in June 2008, at a cost of $21,755. It had been used by Regional School Unit 57 until 2007, when the […]

Leon Moody of Ruck Roofing & Siding climbs a ladder to the roof of the former Cousens Memorial School in Lyman on Tuesday. The town-owned building is being shored up as the town considers plans for its future use. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

Saco Bay Trails founder John Andrews, center, President Emeritus of the Eastern Trail Alliance, performs the ceremonial ribbon cutting at the dedication of the Cascade Falls Trail in Saco Tuesday. Also pictured are Elaine Vadeboncoeur, president of Saco Bay Trails, and Saco Mayor Ron Michaud. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

SACO — The first phase of a new trail system at Cascade Falls is complete. In 2008, as part of a contract zone agreement, Developer Elliott Chamberlain gave the city about 17 acres off Cascade Road that includes the Cascade waterfall. Chamberlain also cleared out a parking lot on Cascade Road and agreed to give […]

KENNEBUNK — Firefighters and police closed off the right lane of the northbound Maine Turnpike under the Limerick Road overpass Monday, not for an accident scene, but for a movie scene. “You’re going to become a Hollywood star,” joked Bill Thompson, highway maintenance foreman of the Maine Turnpike Authority, to Saco Fire Chief John Duross, […]

Wells firefighter Jeff Cullen, left, listens to direction from Lee Cote, far right, and Denise Dupuis of Kennebunk-based Video Creations while shooting a scene for a project Monday by the side of the northbound lane of the Maine Turnpike in Kennebunk. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

On Sunday, Don Lauzier of Saco plays the trumpet at a ceremony at Biddeford’s Veterans Memorial Park in remembrance of the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The event was organized by the AMVETS Post 1 in Biddeford. The ceremony was a joint effort by Biddeford, Saco and surrounding communities. (DINA MENDROS/Journal Tribune)