ALFRED — By the end of the day on Wednesday, about 1,400 Thanksgiving baskets, filled with turkey, potatoes, canned vegetables, stuffing, gravy packets, squash, apples, pie and cranberry sauce will have been distributed to families from the York County Shelter Programs Inc. food pantry on Swetts Bridge Road in Alfred. It is a figure that […]

BIDDEFORD — The members of Biddeford High School’s civil rights club are leaders for inclusivity and equality in the hallways. Every month, the club hosts “Eater-Action” events to promote interaction between students and eating food from multiple cultures. “The Eater-Action, or eating and interaction events reach out to many students,” said civil rights co-advisor Jon […]

  OLD ORCHARD BEACH — The Old Orchard Beach Police Department has released the names of individuals arrested or issued a summons from Oct. 8 to Oct. 21. • James Turner, 53, of Biddeford, was issued a summons for operating after habitual offender revocation and leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident at 2:29 […]

SANFORD — Residents in Sanford are paying attention to the sort of items they put into their recycling bins and that has translated into some good news. The “contamination” rate for Sanford ‘s recycling is for the most part down to 1 percent and sometimes ventures into 2 or 3 percent, said City Manager Steve […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The dance floor is thinning over at ABC. The Nielsen company says viewership is down for ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” franchise, which concluded its fall season on Monday with country radio host Bobby Bones beating Disney star Milo Manheim, actress Evanna Lynch and model Alexis Ren. Each episode averaged 8.2 […]

About 30 vehicles slid off the highway or were damaged Tuesday afternoon when a tractor-trailer jackknifed in the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 in Etna. The pileup in Penobscot County was caused by a change in weather conditions exacerbated by a sudden, intense snow squall that created whiteout conditions, Maine Department of Transportation spokesman Ted […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the urgency of addressing climate change grows more and more apparent, York County members of the non-partisan Citizens’ Climate Lobby traveled to Washington, D.C., where they joined with 19 other Maine volunteers and with hundreds of volunteers from around the nation last week, urging Congress to enact policies to reduce the heat-trapping […]

A University of New England professor has reached a settlement with the school over a 2016 lawsuit in which she said her department chairman retaliated against her after she accused him of sexual harassment. Lara Carlson’s attorney and a spokeswoman for the University of New England confirmed Tuesday that a settlement had been reached, but […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials in the U.S. and Canada told people Tuesday to stop eating romaine lettuce because of a new E. coli outbreak. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it is working with officials in Canada on the outbreak, which has sickened 32 people in 11 states and 18 people in […]