SACO — The partially decomposed body of an unidentified man was found in a field in Saco Friday morning. On Friday, May 13 at 10:47 a.m. the Saco Police Department responded to Flag Pond Road after receiving a call from a property owner who told police he discovered a dead body in the wood line […]

Bill Robbins holds a tray of seedlings at his home in Biddeford Thursday. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

BIDDEFORD — Recyclers who visit the Biddeford Recycling Center/Transfer Station on Saturday are in for a nice surprise. Not only will they have a warm feeling of doing something good for the environment ”“ by reducing the amount of solid waste that enters the waste stream ”“ but they will also be rewarded for their […]

Biddeford Mayor Joanne Twomey gestures Wednesday while Ethan Strimling, executive director of LearningWorks, listens to her speech Tuesday during the open house event. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

BIDDEFORD — Keeping youth who have committed crimes in their communities, near their support systems and community services, plays an important role in reducing repeat criminal activity by young people, according to an administrator with the Maine Department of Corrections. That’s why opening a branch of LearningWorks at the J. Richard Martin Community Center is […]

KENNEBUNK — Regional School Unit 21 took its first step toward buying out its contract with Thornton Academy Middle School Tuesday night, after the majority of nearly 700 voters cast their votes in favor of allocating $1.2 million to end the contract. “By buying out the contract, we’re saving money, and giving kids a choice,” […]

SACO — The City Council is looking to reduce the draw on the undesignated fund as it continues to work on a municipal budget. The council was initially scheduled to vote on the municipal budget May 16, but Mayor Roland “Ron” Michaud said at a budget workshop Monday night that it wasn’t going to happen. […]

BIDDEFORD — Lisa Flynn worked at WestPoint Home until the end. “I never thought we’d shut down,” she said Saturday, seated around a table in the vast North Dam mill  with several former co-workers, reminiscing. “We had a popular blanket and it was in demand,” said her husband Dan Flynn, who left the mill a […]

Longtime textile mill worker and Biddeford Historical Society President Ray Gaudette chats with mill owner Doug Sanford at a bean supper Saturday where former mill workers and others came together to talk about old times and the prospects of a Biddeford Mills Museum. (TAMMY WELLS/Journal Tribune)

AUGUSTA — The Biddeford Downs racino effort received a minor setback Friday as the Maine Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs delivered a divided report on LD 1203, a bill that proposes legislative approval of the Biddeford racino project and a racino in Calais. Supporters of Biddeford Downs, however, are unfazed by […]