Lynn DiBiase of Belissimo Hair Salon and Maria Little, whose family owns Fresh Look Cleaners enjoy the festivities that launched the South Portland Buy Local initiative on March 16. The Snow Squall restaurant was filled with local business represenatives displaying their products and services, and community supporters.

Civilian and military personnel join forces in the tug o’ war at Blarney Days in downtown Bath on Saturday, March 13.

Bella Hall of South Portland, just 5 months young, is pretty in pink for volunteer Jessica Begley, photographer Dennis Griggs and big brother Aiden, right, during a casting call for the $500 Harold Alfond College Challenge at the Maine Mall on March 13. Organizers said 253 babies were photographed in the search for fresh faces […]

TOPSHAM — A Winter Street resident arrested Monday, March 15, on a charge of criminal restraint after allegedly enticing a 5-year-old girl into his apartment will undergo psychological evaluation. Stuart Bull, 39, allegedly lured the child into his Whispering Pines apartment at 53 Winter St. at about 3:30 p.m. while she rode her bicycle. A witness, […]

Brook Mitchell, 13, of Bath, plays soccer and lacrosse, but has the form of a javelin thrower while pitching limbs onto a brush fire on Friday, March 12. With temperatures in the 50s, it was a great day to clear up winter’s mess.