SANFORD — Kick up your heels at an old fashioned barn dance, listen to some Franco music and learn about nine farms in the area at the Springvale Farm Walk . Sanford is marking its 250th birthday this year and there are a number of events — some sponsored by the 250th Committee and some […]

BIDDEFORD — For residents of some neighborhoods off South Street in Biddeford, the shortest distance between two points is currently under construction. A massive project involving multiple agencies stretching from Highland Drive to Briarwood Drive along South Street has limited access to motorists and is expected to continue throughout the summer. Construction includes the reconstruction […]

BIDDEFORD — The Biddeford City Council is slated to vote on Tuesday whether to approve  a new city assessor. City Manager James Bennett nominated the city’s current assistant assessor, Nicholas Desjardins, for the position which is shared with the city of Saco. The vote will take place at the Biddeford City Council’s next regularly scheduled […]

SANFORD — For years, this community’s policy has been “carry in, carry out,” which meant there have been no trash cans in selected areas downtown and in the city’s parks. Officials have maintained over the years that when the community did place litter containers around, people tended to use them to dispose of household trash. […]

LONDON (AP) — There’s a character called Don Logan, played by Ben Kingsley in the British film “Sexy Beast” — a bullying and mercurial individual who wreaks havoc on the life of a retired former underworld cohort when he visits him in exile in Spain. He intimidates, humiliates, taunts and worse. He is a most […]

Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling and City Councilor Pious Ali are bringing forward a proposal to allow some non-citizens to vote in local elections. The proposal would allow adult non-citizens who are legally present in the U.S., including asylum seekers and refugees, to vote in municipal elections such as local referendums including school budgets, and races […]

A judge has ruled that a 39-year-old murder case can move forward because a crime was committed when a 4-month-old infant died in his crib. Cumberland County Superior Court Justice Thomas Warren ruled this week that evidence that has come to light since Nathan Hagar was found dead in his crib in a Brunswick apartment […]

A two-engine plane with two people aboard landed without its landing gear at the Portland International Jetport on Thursday morning, causing a 90-minute shutdown of the airport that affected more than a dozen flights. The small aircraft came to rest on the runway on its belly at about 10:30 a.m. Fire and emergency personnel surrounded […]

AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage says if a court tells him he must expand Medicaid without budgeted state funding, he’d go to jail before putting Maine in “red ink.” LePage made the remark Wednesday during a call-in on WVOM-FM, a Bangor station that frequently hosts the governor on its morning talk show. While the governor continues […]