Attorney Amy Fairfield argues before Justice G. Arthur Brennan Wednesday at York County Superior Court that he should overturn a jury’s guilty verdict in an aggravated assault case against her client, Gary Traynham of Kennebunk, while Assistant District Attorney Thaddeus West looks on. (TAMMY WELLS/Journal Tribune)

SANFORD — A tenant of one of the apartment buildings on Acorn Street slated for demolition to make way for a new Walgreens vowed Tuesday to mount a petition drive to overturn the council’s approval of a contract zone that allows the $7 million project to move ahead. Janet Zappala told the Town Council she […]

SANFORD — On Friday night, Sanford High School senior Jen Halstead was dressed like trash. And that’s exactly how she wanted it. Halstead, who is president of the Sanford High School Environmental Club, was one of the masterminds behind the school’s first-ever Green Fashion Show. Wearing an outfit made from shredded newspaper and empty candy […]

A participant walks the runway at the Sanford High School Environmental Club’s Green Fashion Show on Friday. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

Sanford High School Environmental Club President Jan Halstead, left, and Vice President Catherine Murley talk prior to the start of the school’s Green Fashion Show, in which club members and other participants modeled outfits made of trash and recyclable materials, on Friday. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

Scott Clark, project manager for Ledgewood Construction, leads a tour of an addition currently being built at Biddeford High School, on Friday.

BIDDEFORD — On Friday, members of the Biddeford High School chorus were excited as they moved items from their old quarters to their new home, in a newly completed portion of the building. They were excited not only because it was the last day of school before vacation, but also because it was the first […]

SCARBOROUGH — It’s been 12 years since their friend Ashley Ouellette’s death, but Angie Presby-Hilton and Christina Barber still think about her every day. The two are holding a dance in May in Ouellette’s honor, to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Maine. The event, said Presby-Hilton, will be a night of remembrance, a “celebration of […]

Julia Dobson sits outside with her sons Riley, left, and Jackson during a recent visit to the YMCA Day Care in Biddeford. JEFF LAGASSE/ Journal Tribune

Friends Christina Barber and Angie Presby-Hilton hang up a flyer for a benefit dance in memory of Ashley Ouellette on a community bulletin board at Barber’s workplace, Able Home Health, in Saco. LIZ GOTTHELF/ Journal Tribune