WATERBORO — The 25th annual Old Home Days brought the community together with family-friendly activities this past weekend. The festival began Friday night with music and remote-controlled airplanes. On Saturday morning, people lined Main Street to watch the parade, which included Shriner mini-cars circling around the street, local officials, fire engines, ambulances, community, school and […]

NORTH BERWICK — A tractor trailer truck carrying garbage collided with an Amtrak Downeaster train carrying 112 passengers on the grade-level crossing on Route 4 in North Berwick between 11-11:30 a.m. this morning. Deputy Fire Chief Larry Straffin has confirmed that the driver of the tractor trailer died in the collision. Six passengers on the […]

Christopher Gallot talks about the Bison Project, a venture he is undertaking with friend Conor Guptill, Wednesday at the Hackmatack Farm in Berwick as bison roam in a field behind an electrified fence. JEFF LAGASSE/ Journal Tribune

BERWICK — Two childhood friends have come back home to raise bison, educate others and honor their southern Maine heritage.  Christopher Gallot, 24, and Conor Guptill, 25, have begun The Bison Project and have started a bison ranch on the Guptill family property in Berwick. The two bought their first bison in April and currently […]

KENNEBUNK — Walking up the driveway of Michael and Kathy Landrum’s home, visitors pass the perennial garden lining a rock wall and enter into a backyard filled with ornamental plants and fresh foods meant for friends and neighbors to eat. Their garden ”“ one of 10 on the 17th annual Private Gardens of the Kennebunks […]

KENNEBUNK — Regional School Unit 21 and Wells-Ogunquit Community School District school board members brainstormed Thursday on the possibility of building a high school that would combine the two districts’ approximately 1,200-person student body. The two boards considered the positives, negatives and unknowns. “We don’t have data to make any decisions,” said Maureen King, RSU […]

Ken Ridolfi and his two dogs are safe today after a fire ripped through his home on H Road in Acton overnight. He said smoke detectors that sounded at about 3 a.m. saved his life. (TAMMY WELLS/Journal Tribune)

ACTON — Ken Ridolfi had set his alarm clock for 3:30 a.m., intending to get up early,  but when alarms reverberated through his home at 3 a.m., it was smoke detectors sounding. His home was on fire. This morning, all that remained of the two-story structure was a pile of smoking rubble. Fire investigators were […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — A new ordinance would allow the sale of alcohol at The Ballpark, but baseball fans likely won’t be able to enjoy a brew during a game until next season. The Ballpark has a home team for the first time in more than 20 years, the Raging Tide, after a huge community […]

Old Orchard Beach Raging Tide intern Bobby LeBlanc opens a sports drink at The Ballpark’s concession stand on Tuesday, June 21. The town council decided this Tuesday to approve an ordinance that will allow sale of beer at The Ballpark. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)