ACTON — Festival attendees stood in a long, wrapping line on a sweltering Saturday at the Acton Fairgrounds. It was the opening day of Maine’s Renaissance Faire, and peasants, pirates, knights and fairies mingle as far as the eye can see. The gates opened at 10 a.m. and closed at 5 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday, July […]

GILROY, Calif. (AP) — Only a few days ago, Gilroy was known for one thing: garlic. The rural community near San Francisco lived and breathed the prized, pungent crop. Now it’s the site of the latest American mass shooting. On Sunday evening, a 19-year-old gunman with apparent white supremacist views slipped into the annual Gilroy […]

STANDISH — Edward Hawkins Jr,. 50, of Old Orchard Beach, died Friday night in a motorcycle accident in Standish. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office and Standish Fire and Rescue responded to a call at 11:20 p.m. on Friday of a motorcycle crash at 170 Pequawket Trail. Police found Hawkins dead by his motorcycle, a 1990 […]

WATERBORO — An 18-year-old ATV operator was arrested and two other teens were issued summons after they were observed by a York County Sheriff’s deputy riding in the travel lane of West Road in Waterboro and then fleeing the scene. According to York County Sheriff William L. King Jr., Sergeant David Chauvette observed three All Terrain […]

BIDDEFORD — Clifford Park, situated off Pool Street, is a winding and rocky trail of ecological, historical, and leisurely interest and on Saturday, the Friends of Clifford Park, a community-based organization dedicated to the support and maintenance of the park, hosted a donation-based nature walk to share the park’s history with participants. About 60 hikers participated […]

BIDDEFORD — Chief Roger Beaupre of the Biddeford Police Department has announced that the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA®) has completed its Year 1 annual accreditation review and assessment of the department and found it to be in compliance with the reviewed national standards without exception. The Biddeford Police Department was awarded its first national accreditation at the CALEA conference in […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing growing accusations of racism over his incendiary tweets, President Donald Trump on Sunday tried to deflect the criticism by labeling a prominent minority congressman as himself racist and accusing Democrats of trying to “play the race card.” Trump assailed Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., as a racist after the president’s criticisms of […]

GORHAM — More than a hundred farms around Maine celebrated the 30th annual Open Farm Day on Sunday, a chance for the public to meet farmers and support agricultural businesses from Kennebunkport to Caribou. Strawberry picking, wine tastings, goat-milk yogurt, goat-milk caramel sauce – visitors had a chance to sample it all, as well as […]