SACO — Soon, students at Gov. John Fairfield Elementary School will be climbing a new piece of playground equipment. With financial help from the Fairfield PTO, playground distributor The Playground Guys and a 5210 grant from Coastal Healthy Maine Communities, the school was recently able to purchase and install a climbing wall in the playground. […]

Second grade students Rylee Fletcher, right, Abel Frausto, center, and Grace Tollotson scale a new climbing wall at the Fairfield School in Saco Tuesday. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

ALFRED — Justice Paul A. Fritzsche sentenced Richard Dalli to the maximum 30 years in prison, with all but 20 years suspended, for the death of John Wheeler. Dalli pleaded guilty to manslaughter in mid-October following a mistrial in September in which he was charged with murder for stabbing Wheeler. The stabbing occurred at Dalli’s […]

Richard Dalli, center, appearing with defense attorneys Sarah Churchill, left, and Sharon Ward, reads from a prepared statement Monday during his sentencing at York County Superior Court in Alfred. Dalli will serve 30 years, with all but 20 suspended, for manslaughter. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

Stephanie Quartararo prepares Christmas ornaments Saturday at Fabulous Formals on Main Street in Sanford during Holly Daze. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

SANFORD — It cost Stephanie Quartararo a mere $20 to make some childrens’ holidays a little more colorful. That’s how much the Fabulous Formals employee spent on a trove of festive Christmas ornaments that were being given away for free Saturday at the formal wear outlet on Main Street in Sanford. This was Quartararo’s first […]

Visitors to Fort Williams Park watch the heavy surf explode onto the rocks, Thursday, in Cape Elizabeth. A quick moving storm with winds approaching 50 miles per hour brought record breaking warmth to the region where the temperature reached 68 degrees. (AP WIREPHOTO/Robert F. Bukaty)

SANFORD — Thursday was a shirtsleeves day. It was a day to do yardwork in shorts and a T-shirt, walk the beach, or take the baby out in the stroller for a spin around the block. By noon, the temperature was a balmy 67 degrees in Sanford and in Portland, where the warmth set a […]

Biddeford Police Chief Roger Beaupre explained the Police Department’s bicycle patrol, among other things, to students at the Citizens Police Academy during a class on Wednesday at the Police Department on Alfred Street. (DINA MENDROS/Journal Tribune)

What it takes to become a police officer, the characteristics of being a good witness to a crime and how criminal investigations are handled by police detectives were just some of the points covered in the Citizen Police Academy put on by the Biddeford Police Department this fall. On Wednesday, the eighth and final week […]