SACO — Join the Institute for Family-Owned Business (IFOB) for its first Family Fun Festival to be held on Wednesday, Aug. 17 from 4 to 8 p.m. at River Winds Farm & Estates in Saco. River Winds Farm (an IFOB member) is a family-owned and operated event venue and horse farm on 160 sprawling acres of […]
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Thornton Academy Middle School announces 4th quarter honor roll
6th Grade First Honors – Ava Barber, Brennan Belanger, Emery Boudreau, Isabelle Bryant, Malia Collins, Tyler Crook, Evan Dewitt, Addison Harris, Benjamin MacDougall, Violet Miller, Jack Perkins, Sri Prisha Pillai, Acadia Regan, Kiera Shea, Shelby Shepherd, Sophia Sirois, Anthony Tarr, William Tripp, Mclean Van Der Riet, Brianna Warde, Althea Webber 6th Grade Second Honors – […]
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MaineCF grants support hospice services
More than $30,000 in grants from the Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) will support hospice services in southern Maine. MaineCF’s Hospice Fund committee awarded five grants totaling $29,5000. Donors with advised funds awarded three additional grants that totaled $7,000. The 2022 grantees include: • Center for Grieving Children, Portland, to provide peer-support groups for grieving children […]
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September training event to address climate change, coastal erosion
SACO — Save our Shorelines: Saco Bay (SOS Saco Bay) announces its first annual conference on Coastal Erosion at Ferry Beach Retreat & Conference Center in Saco on Tuesday, Sept. 27. The conference will focus on the dual threats of climate change and coastal erosion. Coastal Erosion is a naturally occurring process, but at Camp […]
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SACO UMA drones visit Saco skies
SACO – The University of Maine at Augusta’s Aviation Studies program has been hosting drone flying demonstrations and educational sessions about them at several of its facilities across the state. Recently, it held an event on July 14 at its Saco Center located on 4 Scammon St. The UMA Aviation Studies program’s purpose in holding […]
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Domestic violence survivors spread their message
Members of Finding Our Voices placed posters in Biddeford and Saco storefronts last week and will do the same in Scarborough and other areas of Cumberland County on July 25.
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Giant-ER Annual Book Sale at the Dyer Library
Yesterday was the Great Book Carry Down Day. A significant number of intrepid volunteers showed up to help as we slid hundreds of bags and boxes of books down a corrugated plastic, homemade ramp on the attic stairs. In the 16 years I’ve worked here, the book sale has steadily grown both in the number […]
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Building on our successes in Biddeford and Saco
Watching the national news these days can be a sobering experience, with all the challenges associated with inflation, wars, Supreme Court decisions, violence, and more, some of which feel intractable at times to solve. But a good antidote to that is just to go outside and interact with neighbors and community members locally, and see […]
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Saco Classic Car Show returns Saturday morning
SACO — Love those older automobiles? Do you swoon at the thought of chrome and tail fins, or older vehicles once called horseless carriages? How about the muscle cars of the 1960s and 1970s? More than 150 vehicles will be on display on Main Street from 8 a.m. 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 23 — […]
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Road closure on lower Main Street in Biddeford on July 21
BIDDEFORD — A full road closure on lower Main Street in Biddeford will take place on Thursday, July 21 starting at about 4 a.m. until the estimated completion time of 1 p.m. During this time, a 30-inch diameter sewer pipe to be used in upcoming storm drain work will be moved across the road. Access […]