Mayor Joanne Twomey and City Councilor David Bourque gesture during a tour of Hollywood Slots, led by Assistant General Manager Steve Lambert, left, Tuesday. (DINA MENDROS/Journal Tribune)

SANFORD — Clinton E. Springer II was a remarkable solider, his commanding officer told Springer’s father. The elder Springer, who shares the same name as his son, said the officer told him, “When he joined the Army he was a boy and he became a man.” Springer, 21, died Friday in Kabul, Afghanistan. His remains […]

Clinton E. Springer II, of Sanford and Mashpee, Mass., is pictured at left in this photo released by Fort Drum. Springer died Friday in Afghanistan. (SUBMITTED PHOTO/COURTESY FORT DRUM)

ALFRED — A “wolf tree” is a large, prominent tree that often stands alone in a field, dominating the landscape. It was from the wolf tree on their Alfred farm, that Tom Harms and his wife Amy Sprague, conceived of the name of the their 50-acre farm, Wolf Pine Farm. Like the wolf tree the […]

BIDDEFORD — If it was feathery, furry, slimy or scaly, it appeared in chalk drawings on the sidewalks of downtown Biddeford Saturday. The annual Chalk on the Walk festival is a chance for the young and not-so-young to tweak their imaginations to create images that appear only fleeting on the  concrete and asphalt but live […]

A variety of different crops await the winter harvest season Wednesday at the Wolf Pine Farm in Alfred. JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune

Tom Harms kneels in a thatch of butternut squash at his farm, the Wolf Pine Farm in Alfred, on Wednesday. Harms has been busy planting crops for the winter harvest season. JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune

Shania Junkins and Alyssa Wills, students at Biddeford Middle School, worked on a tiger theme for the school’s Chalk on the Walk rendering, during the festival in downtown Biddeford, Saturday. Teacher Denise McGinn said various middle school students worked on the piece during the day. (TAMMY WELLS/ Journal Tribune)

A variety of different crops await the winter harvest season Wednesday at the Wolf Pine Farm in Alfred. JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune

Tom Harms kneels in a thatch of butternut squash at his farm, the Wolf Pine Farm in Alfred, on Wednesday. Harms has been busy planting crops for the winter harvest season. JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune