Laura Brackett, a personal friend of the Greene family, speaks at Holland’s sentencing Monday. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

Tammy Cole, mother of Gage and Derek Greene, speaks at Holland’s sentencing Monday in York County Superior Court in Alfred. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

The funeral Mass for Marc Bellefeuille, a former deputy chief with the Biddeford Fire Department, was held on Saturday. As part of the ceremony surrounding his funeral, a fire truck carrying his casket drove through the Central Fire Station on Alfred Street. Firefighters walked beside the fire truck, and Bellefeuille’s surviving family members walked behind […]

BIDDEFORD — On Saturday, several hundred people filled St. Joseph’s Church in Biddeford for the funeral Mass of Biddeford native Marc Bellefeuille, who died at age 60. Firefighters from Biddeford and other fire departments were among those attending the Mass to honor the former Biddeford deputy fire chief, who died unexpectedly on Jan. 30 after […]

Thornton Academy Bicentennial Coordinator Cathy Coffman peruses the school’s historical documents Monday inside the school’s history room. Thornton Academy, founded in 1811, is commemorating its bicentennial this year. JEFF LAGASSE/ Journal Tribune

BIDDEFORD — A newly constructed, affordable home will soon be available thanks to a collaboration between the Biddeford Housing Authority, Biddeford-Saco Rotary Club and Biddeford Regional Center of Technology. Students in Wayne Hapgood’s building trades class built the home through a program funded by the Biddeford-Saco Rotary, and the BHA will be responsible for selling […]

This ranch at 49 Green St. in Biddeford, seen Thursday, was built last year by students in the Biddeford Regional Center of Technology building trades program. Another house, in a different style, is due to be constructed by the students this year. JEFF LAGASSE/ Journal Tribune

SACO — When Thornton Academy first opened its doors in 1813, the one-building campus on School Street served 50 students. Today, the school boasts 10 buildings on an 80-acre campus on Main Street ”“ and more than 1,300 students. On Feb. 16, the school will mark 200 years since it was founded. The Bicentennial Strategic […]

SANFORD — A move to re-appoint councilor Bradford Littlefield to the Sanford Regional Economic Growth Council resulted in no action Tuesday when the vote was tied 3-3. The three councilors who voted against Littlefield’s appointment ”“ Richard Wilkins, Vice Chairman Alan Walsh and Chairman Gordon Paul ”“ indicated they themselves had no interest in filling […]

Sanford Fire Chief Jeffrey H. Rowe took the oath of office, administered by Sanford Town Clerk Claire Morrison, Tuesday as his wife Cathy and daughter Mackenzie looked on. (TAMMY WELLS/Journal Tribune)