KENNEBUNK — A Hannaford supermarket will open this spring in the former Stop ‘n’ Shop location at the Shops at Long Bank Shopping Center on Route 1. The purchase of the 56,800-square-foot supermarket and a 4,300-square-foot adjacent retail space was announced Tuesday. The new store is expected to employ about 150 full- and part-time associates. […]

Debra Gagon, left, director of Bon Appetit, and Josie Meriello prepare food for a community dinner in the kitchen of the Second Congregational Church Monday in Biddeford. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

WELLS — After finishing the turkey and stuffing remnants of Thanksgiving, many are ready for the annual trek to the corners of a attic or basement to dig out the holiday decorations ”“ chief among them, strands of Christmas lights. But for people like Stan Norton and Gabriel Letourneau, the process of planning and placing […]

Stan Norton stands in the midst of his extravagant Christmas light display on the lawn in front of his home in Wells on Wednesday. The Nortons choreographed their lights to coincide with a low-frequency radio transmission, allowing passersby to enjoy the lights in sync to holiday music from their vehicles. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

Laurent Geoffrey takes his pulse Friday at his home in Saco with a well@home telehealth unit that allows SMMC Visiting Nurses to remotely monitor the blood pressure, pulse, and weight of its patients. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

A telehealth unit, which allows SMMC Visiting Nurses to remotely monitor the blood pressure, pulse, and weight of its patients, seen at the hospital on Friday. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

BIDDEFORD — Every morning for the past month, Laurent Geoffrey wakes up, steps on the scale to measure his weight, takes his blood pressure and measures his pulse. These measurements are taken using a special monitor that transmits the results via telephone line to the medical office of SMMC Visiting Nurses. There, nurse Jan Prewitt-Small […]

York County Jail corrections staff led Robert D. Copley Jr., 22, into York County Superior Court Thursday afternoon. Copley is charged with murder in connection with the death of Frances Moulton, 26, whose remains were found in a Lebanon well in June, three years after she disappeared. He pled innocent to the charge.

ALFRED — The brother of a former Springvale woman whose remains were found in a Lebanon well earlier this year said he doesn’t know Robert Copley Jr., the man charged with murder in connection with his sister’s death, and doesn’t want to. “I never met him and I never want to know him,” said Joshua Noorda, […]

Bill Durkin, of the Friends of Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, stops to take a break from hiking through the Timber Point property on the coastline of Biddeford Tuesday. The Friends group is working with the Trust for Public Land, the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, and the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust to have the 110 acres […]