SACO — A new pocket park offers downtown visitors a peaceful place to relax. Local downtown economic development group Saco Main Street, with the help of several sponsors and the City of Saco, recently developed a piece of unused land on the U. S. Post Office property, adjacent to the post office building on Main […]

SANFORD — Students at Sanford High School are going to get a big welcome on Friday morning. Organizers of the welcome — members of the high school’s Peer Helpers group and Strategies for a Stronger Sanford — decided it was time to come together and rally for students after learning the results of a survey […]

LEBANON — The  chance discovery of a sodden, dirty pillowcase along the roadside during an annual town-wide clean-up day has meant the return of some of the items a local couple had thought were gone forever. Richard and Joanne Couture were away from their Lebanon home for just a short time one day last winter, […]

YORK COUNTY — Personal Development author Wayne Dyer once said that “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Not sure if Dyer had the journaltribune.com website in mind when he came up with that, but starting Tuesday morning, visitors to the newpaper’s website will experience a big […]

SACO — Ryan Sommer has come full circle in life, and he couldn’t be happier. Sommer, 42, worked early on in his career in the field of recreation as a recreation technician for the City of Saco from 1998 to 2003. Now he’s back working for the city, and started the position of Saco Parks […]

WELLS — A rare North Atlantic right whale has been seen swimming near the coast of Wells. Local police issued an alert warning boaters to stay clear and not to interfere with the juvenile whale, which is one of the rarest large whales in the world. The police department received numerous reports over the weekend […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The Federal Transit Administration is giving a ferry line in Maine $6 million to replace an aging boat. The administration is providing the money to Casco Bay Lines in Portland. The boat that will be replaced is aging to the point where it’s no longer useful. Elected officials in the state say […]

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli soldiers shot and killed at least 52 Palestinians during mass protests along the Gaza border on Monday. It was the deadliest day there since a devastating 2014 cross-border war and cast a shadow over Israel’s festive inauguration of the new U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem. In a show of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprising overture to China, President Donald Trump says he would help a Chinese telecommunications company get “back into business,” saying too many jobs in China are at stake after the U.S. government cut off access to its American suppliers. The U.S. Commerce Department last month blocked the ZTE Corp., a […]