SANFORD — Gilles Auger has been creating a database of Franco-Americans who came to Sanford from Quebec to work in the mills. As he records those who came and their relations in Quebec and elsewhere, the database has grown to 80,000 names. As well, he reads a half-dozen French language newspapers daily on the Internet, […]

Gilles and Claire Auger hold certificates commemorating their induction into Maine’s Franco-American Hall of Fame, at their home in Sanford on Tuesday. Above right:”ˆA closeup of the pin they each received. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

On Saturday, Biddeford Code Enforcement Officer Roby Fecteau ordered the ground floor of the 66-unit Mill at Saco Falls apartment complex evacuated. Tenants were moved as a precaution in case of future flooding into the building. Rapid water rise and increased water pressure last week caused a breach in the river wall in front of […]

BIDDEFORD — The tenants of six first-floor apartments at the Mill at Saco Falls were evacuated Saturday after elevated water levels of the Saco River caused a breach in the river wall. Although no water has entered the 66-unit apartment complex, which opened last fall, tenants were evacuated as a precaution, said the building’s developer […]

Brett Davis asks a question of Maine Governor Paul LePage and his panel Friday at Thornton Academy in Saco. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

Maine Gov. Paul LePage, right, walks onto the auditorium stage at Thornton Academy in Saco Friday night, joined by Darryl Brown, center, commissioner of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, and Steve Bowen, Maine’s commissioner of education. LePage engaged the public in a question-and-answer session in the second of his monthly “Capitol for a Day” […]

SACO — On Friday night, York County became the second county in the state to host Gov. Paul LePage and his “Capitol for a Day” event, a monthly town hall-style meeting that will take place in each of Maine’s 16 counties. Attendees at the event, held at Thornton Academy in Saco, consisted largely of LePage […]

Bruce Bryant, whose sons own Hilltop Boilers in Newfield, replaces a sap bucket onto a maple tree on Tuesday after pouring its contents into plastic containers. The sap Bryant collected was later boiled and made into maple syrup in preparation for Maine Maple Sunday, which will take place on March 27. JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune

WEST NEWFIELD — On a 40 degree spring day you can hear the sap drip, drip, dripping from the maple trees and into the buckets, veteran maple syrup producer Bruce Bryant said. It was Tuesday and his sons, Michael and Mark, owners of Hilltop Boilers, were out on the road in their pick-up trucks, collecting sap […]

WATERBORO — When Massabesic High School student Ashley Hunter smashed into her victim, her impairment was clear. Swerving from side to side, Hunter was demonstrably struggling with her coordination and depth perception, unable to make the necessary adjustments behind the wheel to avoid bearing down on her unintended prey. Fortunately for Hunter, the victim ”“ […]