A young girl creates a giant bubble during the Bacon Street festival in Biddeford last year. The fourth annual festival is planned for this Sunday, featuring a variety of attractions. (DINA MENDROS/Journal Tribune File Photo)

BIDDEFORD — Bacon Street and the surrounding neighborhood has been one of the city’s more troubled areas, but over the past few years the area has been vastly improved thanks to the work of residents, concerned citizens and the city’s Community Development Coordinator Linda Hardacker. To celebrate those improvements, on Sunday the fourth annual Bacon […]

NEWFIELD — It is Sunday morning on Open Farm Day in Maine, and off a dirt road that winds down to Mirror Lake a herd of red deer and hybrid elk graze in one of a series of fenced-in fields. As a golf cart ferrying a visitor approaches, they lift their heads, the male of […]

Red deer and elk graze in a field at Applegate Deer Farm in Newfield on Sunday, which was Open Farm Day. (TAMMY WELLS/Journal Tribune)

Amelia Chamberlain of the Willowbrook 19th Century village in Newfield sits atop that destination’s carousel on Thursday, June 14. The living, sprawling museum-village is in need of donations to keep it open through future seasons. (Jeff Lagasse/Journal Tribune)

Amelia Chamberlain of the Willowbrook 19th Century village in Newfield sits atop that destination’s carousel on Thursday, June 14. The living, sprawling museum-village is in need of donations to keep it open through future seasons. (Jeff Lagasse/Journal Tribune)

Thornton Academy Headmaster Carl Stasio Jr. addresses the crowd Thursday night at the dedication ceremony for the Carl and Barbara Stasio Residence Hall. Standing next to him is his wife, Barbara. (Liz Gotthelf/Journal Tribune)

NEWFIELD — A Teddy Bear Tea and rides on an 1894 carousel are scheduled at 19th Century Willowbrook Village today. Each Saturday, working blacksmiths are on hand to show visitors how iron was forged in the mid-1800s. There’s a regular farmer’s and artisan’s market on Saturdays, and beginning July 31, folks can enjoy a Sunday […]

SACO — A new residence hall for Thornton Academy’s boarding program has been named in honor of Headmaster Carl Stasio Jr. and his wife Barbara, for their service and dedication to the school. The new dormitory building, located on Main Street, is 21,000 square feet and will house 42 boarding students and four faculty apartments. […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Friends Connor Reeves, Jacob Weese and Ethan Johnson of Skowhegan relaxed barefoot Thursday afternoon in the town square. After a 150-mile journey from Ellsworth on longboards ”“ a long style skateboard ”“ in an effort to raise money for breast cancer, it felt good to take their shoes off, said the […]