ARUNDEL — On Route 111 in Arundel, two time-worn farmhouses stand about a mile apart, some of the last remaining architectural links to a past that is slowly coming into focus. The Arundel Historical Society, formed in 2008, is slowly coaxing that history from obscurity, researching documents, collecting photographs and pulling oral histories from the […]

Arundel Historical Society President Jake Hawkins, and Vice President Suzanne Madore, pictured last week in front of the Lunt House in Arundel, have been pursuing efforts, along with the rest of the historical society, to move that house and the nearby Burnham House to a central location to be used as the society’s headquarters, as […]

KENNEBUNK — In August 2008, Martin Mead, of Kennebunkport, was working for the town part-time as an emergency medical technician when he faced his own medical problem. After finding a lump in his groin, Mead’s diagnosis was cancerous melanoma that had invaded his lymph nodes and required surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Although Mead’s cancer was […]

KENNEBUNK — The Regional School Unit 21 and Wells-Ogunquit Community School District school boards are feeling the pressure to make a decision on whether to form a new $60 million two-district high school, as the two boards are establishing plans to renovate their current schools. “We can’t wait six or nine months to see if […]

Members of the Regional School Unit 21 and Wells-Ogunquit Community School District boards meet Thursday morning at Kennebunk Elementary School to discuss possible plans for a combined high school construction project. (MATT KIERNAN/Journal Tribune)

ALFRED — The man who confessed to killing Frances Moulton, the Sanford woman whose remains were found in a Lebanon well in June 2009, lied to police to protect someone else. Prosecutors won’t discuss the continuing investigation into Moulton’s death, but on Wednesday, Robert Copley, 24, of Hiram, originally charged with murder, pleaded guilty to […]

Frances Moulton (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

This man, who declined to give his name, was one of a few area residents gathered in front of U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe’s office on Main Street in Biddeford Tuesday to protest debt ceiling legislation that could cause cuts to Medicare and Social Security. The rally was organized by the new American Dream Movement, which […]

BIDDEFORD — On Tuesday, as U.S. senators in Washington, D.C. were voting in favor of legislation to increase the amount the federal government can borrow ”“ just hours before a deadline that would have forced a default on the national debt ”“ a small group of area residents descended on U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe’s Main […]

Firefighters battle a fire at 10 East Grand Ave. Monday morning. (Liz Gotthelf/Journal Tribune)