KENNEBUNK — Kennebunk Police and Fire Rescue personnel have a message for children on bicycles: Watch your heads. The two departments have partnered with Kennebunk Savings and Dairy Queen to offer young bike enthusiasts better access to bicycle helmets. On Monday, town personnel and sponsors gathered at the Summer Street fire station for the official […]

More than 100 farms across Maine opened their doors on Sunday to let non-farmers get a snapshot view of life on a farm. In York County, 16 farms from Saco to Kittery to Bar Mills participated in the event. Two of these small farms, although very different, have found ways to adapt to the times […]

Colin Tonra, 4, enjoys cuddling a kitten Sunday at Open Farm Day in Dayton. This is the eleventh year that Harris Farm in Dayton, owned by the Harris family, participated in Maine’s Open Farm Day. Their farm was one of more than 100 throughout the state taking part in the event celebrating Maine farms. (DINA […]

SANFORD — Seventeen young people spent a week this summer learning a bit of what life is like as a police officer. In a couple of weeks, another group will get the same chance. Welcome to Junior Police Academy, where women are addressed as “ma’am,” men as “sir,” and inspections for tidiness are frequent. There’s […]

Seventeen students from Willard School and Sanford Junior High School took part in Junior Police Academy this week, a program put on by Sanford Police School Resources Officers Mike Thornton and Mike Gordon to give young people a flavor of police work. Here, some of the Junior Police Academy students learn marching skills with Officer […]

KENNEBUNK —  A tourist visiting the Kennebunks for the first time might marvel at its architecture and exclamatory coastline and consider the area ripe for representation in a postcard ”“ one of the oldest forms of casual communication in the country. Evidence that the area lends itself to the medium will be on display at […]

Cynthia Walker, a graduate student at Cooperstown University in New York, arranges postcards on a display Wednesday at the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk. Walker designed the layout of the “Mailed from Maine: Vintage Postcards of the Kennebunks” exhibit, which will run until early 2010. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

BIDDEFORD — The 27th annual La Kermesse festival may be only a memory now for the hundreds of local residents and visitors who enjoyed the festivities last month. However, the heavy rainfall which dampened some of the activities at the festival is having a lasting ”“ and costly ”“ effect on St. Louis field, where […]

Bill Macamber of Youth Organizing for Better Opportunities addresses a group of Biddeford youths who gathered near Williams court to find positive ways of dealing with the shooting deaths of Gage and Derek Greene. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)

BIDDEFORD — Anger and despair were among the first emotions that gripped those closest to the two young men who were killed on a Biddeford street three weeks ago. Now friends and family members of the victims are hoping to create something positive from this tragedy. On June 30, Derek Greene, 21, and Gage Greene, […]