ACTON — Voters in County Commission District 1 have elected a new commissioner to represent them. Political newcomer Republican Robert Andrews of Acton will take office for the four-year term on  Jan. 1. He beat incumbent Sallie V. Chandler of Lebanon by 358 votes in the 10 communities that make up the district. Andrews earned […]

ARUNDEL —  Democrat Henry Ingwersen beat Republican James Booth for the House District 10 seat, serving Arundel, Dayton and Lyman. The seat is being vacated by Republican Wayne Parry, who will be termed out of office. Ingwersen beat Booth 2,369 to 2,213. Ingwersen beat Booth in two of the three communities, winning the Arundel vote […]

SACO — Democrat Allen Sicard beat incumbent Republican Cynthia Chadwick-Granger for the District 3 County Commission seat, representing Buxton, Dayton, Hollis, Old Orchard Beach and Saco. Sicard beat Chadwick-Granger 10,981 to 9,338. Sicard won the two largest municipalities, beating Chadwick-Granger 2,628 to 1,881 in Old Orchard Beach and 5,318 to 3,493 in Saco. Chadwick-Granger bested […]

  SACO — Democrat incumbent Justin Chenette was re-elected to the State Senate District 31 seat, serving Hollis, Limington, Old Orchard Beach, Saco and part of Buxton. Chenette, who lives in Saco, ran against Hollis resident Stavros Mendros. Chenette beat Mendros 12,097 to 6,101. Chenette won three out of five municipalities, beating Mendros 3,297 to 1,338 […]

OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Voters re-elected three current town councilors in Old Orchard Beach. There were five candidates running for three Town Council seats — current councilors Kenneth Blow, Michael Tousignant and Shawn O’Neil, former town councilor Roxanne Frenette and community volunteer Israel Colllins. The winners were O’Neil with 2,606 votes, Tousignant with 2,429 votes […]

WATERBORO – Incumbent Republican Sen. David Woodsome of Waterboro sailed to a third term in Senate District 33 Tuesday, besting his Democratic opponent John Tuttle of Sanford by more than 2,500 votes. It was the second match-up for the two former Sanford High School classmates — they were opponents in the 2014 contest when Woodsome […]

WASHINGTON (AP)  — Democrats have won a House majority, gaining power to investigate President Donald Trump and help shape the nation’s political agenda for the next two years. Democrats picked up at least two dozen House seats Tuesday, capturing the 218 seats needed to break Republicans’ eight-year hold on the House that began with the tea […]

  Outgoing District 12 Independent State Representative Marty Grohman of Biddeford, left, greets his replacement, newly elected State Represenative Victoria Foley of Biddeford outside Tiger Gym at Biddeford High School on Tuesday. Foley was unopposed in her bid for the Maine House. Grohman gave up the seat to run for U.S. Congress, but lost to […]

Democrat Janet Mills won the governor’s race early Wednesday, becoming Maine’s first woman to hold the office. “I am so excited for what lies ahead,” Mills said after dancing her way up to the podium amid cheers at the campaign party at the Aura nightclub in Portland. “It is time, they say, for hope once […]

NEW YORK (AP) — There is now a museum for pizza lovers everywhere that’s popped-up in arguably America’s pizza capital, New York City. The Museum of Pizza is dedicated to all things cheese and sauce, but there’s more to it than meets the tongue. “It’s often that the simplest ideas are the best. And we wanted […]