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A 78-year-old man is dead following a two-vehicle crash Wednesday on Grammar Road in Sanford. Deputy Police Chief Craig Sanford said Norman Girard later died of his injuries at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Police and emergency medical units were called to the crash site near the intersection of Grammar Road and Grammar Street at […]

SACO — An application for a proposed CVS in the downtown has been deemed incomplete, and the developer must get a determination of historical significance for all structures on or adjacent to the site. Planning board members decided at their Tuesday night meeting to reverse their decision on the application made by John Grammas, which […]

The home of former Saco Mayor Mark Johnston, seen Tuesday, with a sign proclaiming his opposition to the proposed CVS store slated to be built in the city’s downtown. JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune

Volunteer Joe Hepp measures a length of wood indicating the dimensions of a window at a Biddeford home on Friday. Hepp and others are providing weatherization help for area families looking to save on heating costs. (Jeff Lagasse/ Journal Tribune)

BIDDEFORD — Carol Bishop’s two-unit home on Clifford Street is an older building that was very expensive to heat. But the divorcee, who is unemployed and living on a fixed income, didn’t have the financial resources to make improvements to her home in order to bring down her heating costs. Lucky for her, there are […]

A man drives a horse-drawn plow down the sidewalks of Saco, circa 1910, in this photograph provided by McArthur Library in Biddeford. Before automobiles became widely used, plowing was done only on the trolley tracks and sidewalks. The photo is attributed to Charles Moody and is featured in “The Old Photographs Series: Saco,” as compiled […]

Lisa Lassey watches a slideshow from her last trip to Haiti, which took place just four weeks ago, on her laptop Saturday in her Kennebunk home. Lassey is director of program development for Partners in Development, a humanitarian aid organization based in Ipswich, Mass. that provides relief for impoverished Haitians. The recent earthquake that struck […]

BIDDEFORD — During a major snowstorm, the City of Biddeford deploys 13 vehicles that plow every street, according to Public Works Director Guy Casavant, using computerized dispensers that distribute sand and salt as they go. The major roads are cleared to the tar and motorists can be confident that the roads will be passable whenever […]

John L. Middleton, vice president of Business Administration at The Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, points out a plow blade Jan. 7 under the plow trolley car that is on the track at the museum this winter.