SACO — State Representative Maggie O’Neil, a Democrat, has announced that she is running for re-election for the District 15 seat. District 15 includes the north and west sides of Saco. The first-term Democrat won the open District 15 seat in 2016 with 66 percent of the vote. She is currently the youngest woman serving […]

BIDDEFORD — On Tuesday, Biddeford City Council approved the appointment of a new director of the Public Works Department unanimously —Councilor Laura Seaver was absent — replacing longtime director Guy Casavant who is retiring after 37 years with the department. Like his predecessor, Jeffrey Demers is an internal candidate, having worked for the city for […]

BIDDEFORD — Southern Maine Health Care has named Nathan Howell, a health care executive with national experience and ties to Maine, as the organization’s new chief executive officer. Howell will assume his new duties May 21 and succeed Ed McGeachey in the role. McGeachey is retiring after serving as SMHC CEO for the past 30 […]

DAYTON — They went for the gold and they got it. Dayton Consolidated School, a school that serves Kindergarten through fifth grade in the small, rural town of Dayton, beat out 15 other schools in the statewide WinterKids Winter Games Challenge. Through the competition, one school in selected in each of Maine’s 16 counties competed to […]

LEBANON — Chief Steven Merrill stood beside the big red fire truck emblazoned with the words Lebanon Fire Dept. Also painted on the truck were the words Blaisdell Corner. He remembers the name from the early 1980s, when he was a young volunteer at the Port Village station in Kennebunkport, and the Blaisdell Corner station […]

A private forecasting company took a routine National Weather Service test message and sent it to people’s phones as an official tsunami warning Tuesday morning, the latest in a spate of false alarms since last month. The National Tsunami Warning Center sent the test message around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. Users of the popular AccuWeather app […]

NEW YORK — After big swings higher and lower, U.S. stocks were up slightly in afternoon trading Tuesday as investors look for calm after a global sell-off. The swings came one day after the steepest drop in 6 ½ years. Major indexes in Asia and Europe fell following Monday’s 1,175-point drop in the Dow Jones […]

BIDDEFORD — No other music form is quite like jazz and a deep appreciation for its free-form interpretation has led Biddeford High School’s Jazz Combo to an upcoming performance in the most prestigous festival for young musicians in the United States.     The eight-person BHS combo will perform Saturday at the High School Jazz Festival at […]