Gov. John Baldacci, spoke at the opening ceremony of the 12th annual Mary’s Walk and Kerrymen Pub 5K on Sunday in Saco. Baldacci, is a friend to many members of the extended family of the late Mary Kerry Libby, for whom the race is named. Here, he greets the late woman’s 97-year-old mother, Grace Kelly. […]

Kyle O’Brien watches his nephew, Zachary Shannon, via a live Web cam feed at home in Wells Wednesday. O’Brien and his family have been able to watch Shannon for the past few weeks thanks to a new program called ANGEL Eye at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Ark., where Shannon […]

AUGUSTA Deadlines approaching for moose permit applications Paper applications for the 2010 moose permit lottery are due by 5 p.m. Thursday at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in Augusta. The applications must be postmarked or delivered to IFW by the deadline, which provides adequate time for the department to process the paperwork […]

Less than 24 hours before the inaugural Maine 100 Pro-Am Cross Country Snowmobile Race scheduled for March 20, things were looking very grim, or more specifically, very brown. A week of temperatures in the 50s in Greenville had melted the snow off all of Bullwinkle’s raceway, leaving only dirt. “When we took the USCC (United […]

Maureen Heffernan, director of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, spoke about native plants for Maine gardens at the Portland Flower Show earlier this month. Cheryl Rich of Southern Maine Community College spoke about blooms throughout the season. What I found interesting was that they ended up talking about a lot of the same plants. But they […]

When you’re taught by the Roman Catholic nuns and brothers, you hear a lot of parables over the years. But decades later, I still remember one by heart. It’s the story of the Good Samaritan. According to the Gospel of Luke, it all started one day when a lawyer-type questioned Jesus on the commandment that […]

Stories on Israel flawed from any angle After many years of hearing and reading about a bias against Israel in the mainstream media, I thought I’d see how my hometown newspaper stacks up against this charge. With Israel in the news of late due to the tension between the Obama administration and the Israeli government […]

SANFORD — An 18 year-old Sanford High School student remained in custody at York County Jail late Thursday, charged with aggravated assault in connection with the  stabbing of another student earlier in the day. Mitchell J. Farah, 18, of Acton is held in lieu of $2,500 cash bail, jail corrections staff said. The incident took […]

Police said Mitchell Farah, 18, of Acton was taken to the York County Jail after he allegedly attacked a fellow student at Sanford High School early Thursday afternoon.

Sanford Maine Stage Company Director and Company Manager Mary Stair looks at a wood carving of the Tin Man, left over from a production of the Wizard of Oz, Monday at the Sanford Maine Stage theater in Springvale. Stair said she hopes the theater company will be able to continue productions at their Hilltop Lane […]