SANFORD — Independent film buffs can see almost 80 films next week in an array of genres, as the Sanford International Film Festival returns for its fifth year. The film festival debuts Tuesday evening with a triple feature and winds down on Sunday. There’s an awards ceremony Saturday night, where the “Tommy Awards,” named for […]

SANFORD — Three tenants of a condemned Sanford apartment building have reached a settlement with the owner and the property manager. The city of Sanford condemned 60 Riverside Ave., a 10-unit apartment building, as unfit for human occupancy in July.  The tenants had sought an injunction against Hill Street Apartments LLC,  MaineLy Property Management and Timothy […]

ARUNDEL — Regional School Unit 21 will appeal the decision of the Maine Superior Court that Arundel middle school students have the right to attend private school Thornton Academy Middle School in Saco and their tuition paid through public funding. RSU 21 oversees education in Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Arundel. In 2016, Thornton Academy and several […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Making a movie about Neil Armstrong may not necessarily be on par with, say, successfully landing on the moon but the pressure involved isn’t a giant leap from that either. There are astronauts who were there, for one, in Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, in addition to all the people who […]

SANFORD — The Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine suspended the medical license of Sanford physician Malathy Sundaram this week, ruling she did not comply with the terms of an August 2017 consent agreement. Sundaram, reached by telephone on Friday morning, said she has been working on the terms of the consent decree for some […]

SACO — The University of Maine at Augusta recently honored 90 students as Rising Scholars, including three students who attend UMA’s Saco Center. These students were recognized as part of UMA’s 2018 Convocation ceremony held at the Augusta Civic Center on Sept.21. Journalist and author Ben Bradlee Jr. delivered the keynote address and spoke about […]

MEXICO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Search and rescue teams have found a body in the Florida Panhandle town nearly wiped out by Hurricane Michael, and authorities said there is little doubt the death toll will rise further. The tally of lives lost across the South stood at 14, including the victim found in the rubble […]

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Linda Marquardt rode out Hurricane Michael with her husband at their home in Mexico Beach. When their house filled with surging ocean water, they fled upstairs. Now their home is full of mud and everywhere they look there’s utter devastation in their Florida Panhandle community: fishing boats tossed like toys, […]