BIDDEFORD — Each year many high school graduating classes hold reunions. High school reunions provide an opportunity to bring together friends and acquaintances from the past that time and distance have kept apart. Five, 10 and even 25-year reunions are common. However, as the years come and go, and life happens, it often becomes more […]

BIDDEFORD — A riverwalk, parking lots, areas of open spaces, pedestrian access and traffic could be part of the future of the mill district, according to design plans that were discussed Wednesday. Consultants from the Boston-based consulting firm Crosby/ Schlessinger/ Smallridge, LLC met with members of the mill district master plan steering committee at City […]

Sections of the Northdam Mill in Biddeford seen on Thursday. Renovations to several buildings in the mill district have already started, with more planned for the coming months. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

BIDDEFORD — While no details are being released, members of the task force that was originally charged with closing the city’s downtown incinerator say progress is being made and a solution may be at hand by the end of the year. A statement released Tuesday said that the group’s progress could lead to closure or […]

Biddeford High School junior John Butler takes a break from text messaging friends on the front steps of the school on Monday. The current entrance would be replaced by a secure entryway that would be part of an addition to the building if voters approve a $34 million renovation project at the school in November. […]

BIDDEFORD — After more than two years of planning, more than 20 meetings by the district’s building committee, and several discussions by the City Council, it will be up to the public to decide in November whether to spend $34 million to renovate Biddeford High School. On Tuesday, in a unanimous vote, the council gave […]

BIDDEFORD — A few of the same young people who were responsible for defacing buildings at the Lincoln Mill with graffiti went to the site Saturday to clean it up. For eight hours in the sweltering heat, a group of more than 15 youth voluntarily pressure-washed brick walls, picked up trash and painted. In the […]

Friends of murder victims Derek Greene, 21, and Gage Greene, 19, worked for eight hours on Saturday cleaning up graffiti at the Lincoln Mill in Biddeford. Since the brothers’ death in Biddeford on June 30, many of their friends formed the Go Greene group which focuses on changing their lives for the better by helping […]

SANFORD — The cable television company that serves Sanford and some rural York County communities said it has no plans to replace a French language channel that was dropped when their service provider stopped supplying a channel out of Sherbrooke, Quebec. In correspondence with resident Gilles Auger, who along with his wife Claire circulated a […]

BIDDEFORD — Paddle boarder Marcio Munch will head to New York City later this month to join more than one hundred other paddlers in an event to raise awareness for autism. Munch, 42, will be attending the third annual SEA Paddle NYC event on Aug. 24. The 28-mile paddle around Manhattan will raise money and […]