Mark Levasseur, chief security officer and production manager for SecureRMS, a new business owned by Waban Projects, activates a machine that aids in the destruction of confidential documents Wednesday in Sanford. Waban, in assisting in the disposal of company documents, also has hired employees with disabilities and plans to hire more. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

SANFORD — What do you call a start-up company that provides a needed service, employs people, produces revenue and contributes to a greener environment? Most savvy business owners would call it a model for success. The owners of Secure Records Management Systems, known as SecureRMS, call it a social enterprise. SecureRMS is a confidential information […]

A conveyor belt carries newly-shredded confidential documents into a compactor Wednesday at SecureRMS in Sanford. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

BIDDEFORD — Next year’s proposed education budget will result in the elimination of some school positions and cutbacks in others, Superintendent of Schools Sarah-Jane Poli told the City Council last week. The reductions are a result of a directive by the council to avoid any tax rate increase from either the city or the education […]

Founders of a pioneering rope-grown mussel operation off Clapboard Island are ready to sell.

The state is right to tax legal sales of the drug, even though the drug is still not really legal.

Joey Shortsleeves, equipped with an autonomous walking device, takes a stroll outside his Biddeford home on Thursday. JEFF LAGASSE/ Journal Tribune

BIDDEFORD — Thursday was a typical afternoon for Joey Shortsleeves, 10, of Biddeford. His mother, Erica Herring, met him when he got off the bus from school. He spent sometime inside watching a video and later went out to play with some of the kids around the neighborhood, his sister Nicole Shortsleeves, 12, and the […]

Joe Abbiati of Lebanon speaks with reporters Wednesday about a March burglary at his home. Four people from New Hampshire have been arrested and charged in connection with that burglary and nine others in Lebanon and Berwick. York County Sheriff Maurice Ouellette said the quartet are suspects in five or 10 more heists. (TAMMY WELLS/Journal […]