Leland and Melissa Boutilier check out a toy farm for their 2-year-old at The Kennebunk Toy Co. on Small Business Saturday. Melissa was raised in Kennebunk, and while the couple and their children now live in Medford, Mass., they said they enjoy shopping at local stores. (TAMMY WELLS/Journal Tribune)

WELLS — As the Maine Department of Transportation finishes one project in Wells, another is set to start this spring. “I think it’s just fabulous for the town,” said Town Manager Jane Duncan, in phone interview Tuesday. Project Resident Clarence Baxter of the Department of Transportation said work is now complete to realign the intersection […]

Sanford Regional Airport Manager Dana Parry shows off newly re-furbished runway 7-25, one of three airport projects recently completed at York County’s largest airport. -Tammy Wells/Journal Tribune

Staff Writer SANFORD — Sanford Regional Airport Manager Dana Parry stopped the red Ford Focus, looked carefully up into the skies and then at the runway as he spoke into the radio. He was letting possible incoming pilots know there would be a car on the runway for a brief period ”“ the little red […]

Sanford Regional Airport Manager Dana Parry shows off newly re-furbished runway 7-25, one of three airport projects recently completed at York County’s largest airport. -Tammy Wells/Journal Tribune

LYMAN/DAYTON — Five months after voters gave their approval to make Goodwins Mills Fire-Rescue a municipal entity, it’s still a corporation. An advisory committee began working in January to develop a plan that would make Goodwins Mills a municipal department, operated by Lyman and Dayton, and voters approved the plan in June ”“ which included […]

Tammy Cole, mother of the late Derek and Gage Greene, who were murdered by Rory Holland in June 2009, leaves the courthouse Nov. 3 after the guilty verdict was handed down by a jury at the Penobscot County Superior Court in Bangor. Cole has now filed a wrongful death complaint against Holland, seeking damages. (DINA […]

BIDDEFORD — Tammy Cole, the mother of two young men shot to death by Biddeford resident Rory Holland, has filed a wrongful death complaint against Holland. Holland was found guilty of murder on Nov. 3, for the June 2009 shooting deaths of Derek and Gage Greene. He has not yet been sentenced. The one-page suit, […]

ARUNDEL — In a vote that one dissenting selectman described as “malfeasance,” selectmen voted not to renew Town Manager John Fraser’s contract Monday. The board voted 3-2 against renewing Fraser’s contract following an executive session of nearly an hour. Selectmen Thomas Danylik and Velma Jones Hayes voted in favor of renewing Fraser’s contract for one […]

Volunteers Jacqui Deveneau and Debbie Brown peel carrots at the Old Orchard Beach United Methodist Church on Sunday. The volunteers were prepping for a community dinner that will be held at the church on Thanksgiving Day. (LIZ GOTTHELF/Journal Tribune)