BIDDEFORD — Although the renovation of Biddeford High School won’t be complete until September 2012, construction crews, working two shifts, have finished the new addition, which houses administrative offices, and the new library. As well, two-thirds of the classrooms have been renovated. Construction began last year, after voters approved a $34 million bond in November […]

Biddeford High School Principal Britton Wolfe gives a tour of the new main office at Biddeford High School on Tuesday. JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune

ALFRED — No one will ever know why Daniel Davis Jr. hid in the bushes alongside what is now Route 4, took careful aim and fired two musket shots, killing Old Bet on July 24, 1816. There are plenty of tales that go around about Davis’ reasons for killing the elephant, which had been on […]

The monument to Old Bet the elephant, as seen in Alfred recently. TAMMY WELLS/ Journal Tribune

SPRINGVALE — The Mill Street dam, known locally as the Alpaca dam because it used to service the nearby mill of the same name, has held back water for about 100 years. And while a recent report from Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting published a week ago notes the dam, along with others classified […]

WEST NEWFIELD — Transformers were down and utility wires were hanging in the breeze Wednesday on Cheryl Durfee’s road, but she was taking heart ”“ Central Maine Power crews were hard at work nearby. Like her neighbors, she was hoping to be back on the grid soon. Chances seemed good. Durfee, who was buying lunch […]

19th Century Willowbrook Village on Elm Street in Newfield was sporting this sign Wednesday ”“ likely left from Monday, since the museum is usually closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. More than 1,000 Central Maine Power Company customers in Newfield had no electricity Wednesday, but that had improved by this morning, when the number of outages […]

Personnel from Waterboro Fire Department were out helping the town’s public works agency remove tree limbs from roads in the community Monday and Tuesday after Tropical Storm Irene blew through Maine. Pictured above are crews working here on Blueberry Road Tuesday morning. (TAMMY WELLS/Journal Tribune)

SHAPLEIGH — At 9 a.m. today, 98 percent of Central Maine Power customers in Newfield didn’t have electricity and 94 percent of customers in Shapleigh didn’t either, a CMP spokesman said this morning. John Carroll said the company’s goal is to have everyone back on the grid by Thursday night. Tropical Storm Irene tore through […]

Arborist Mark Becker steps back after cutting a branch resting on power lines Monday in Buxton, during the cleanup following Tropical Storm Irene. (AP WIREPHOTO/Joel Page)