TOPSHAM — Dozens of Mid-coast residents braved single-digit temperatures to attend the New Year’s event at the Topsham Fairgrounds. The event kicked off a year-long celebration of the town’s 250th anniversary. Residents bundled in winter gear young and old gathered around a blazing bonfire starting at 8 p.m. Children seem unphased by the cold and […]
2013
Posted inJournal Tribune
Sanford reduces waste with PAYT
SANFORD — From Sept. 16 through Nov. 15, Sanford residents threw away 803 tons of garbage. And if that sounds like a lot, consider this: During the same period in 2012, city residents threw away 1,368 tons of trash, or 41 percent more. The figures are from Waste Zero, the company that supplies the special […]
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York County poised for growth in new year
2013 has been a year full of change, and as 2014 begins, we should all remember the good and make note of how to learn from the not so good. Biddeford’s renaissance is well under way, according to Mayor Alan Casavant, who was elected to a second term and recently inaugurated. Under his leadership ”“ […]
Posted inJournal Tribune, Obituaries
Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013
Shirley Ruck Ackerman, 56, of Biddeford, died Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013, following a long illness. Visiting hours will be 4-7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014 at Hope Memorial Chapel, 480 Elm St., Biddeford, ME 04005. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 at St. Joseph Church Parish […]
Posted inJournal Tribune
Farewell to 2013, and to those who really mattered
From the time I was old enough to remember anything to until after I graduated from high school, my family lived on Austin Drive, a small road in a small town in a small state. There were five houses on that tenth-of-a-mile span, including ours. When we were young, the house next door got new […]
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Third-quarter run sends Warriors past Falcons
WELLS — Many times, the biggest shots in a basketball game are taken at the end of a half. Very few times are those shots thrown up at the end of the first half. Wells, however, desperately needed someone, anyone, to make a big shot just before halftime on Monday night against Freeport. And, just […]
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
Some Mainers left in cold as ice, snow stymie fuel trucks
After a series of winter storms, drivers are forced to deny some oil deliveries if they deem conditions unsafe.
Posted inMaine, News
Some Mainers left in cold as ice, snow stymie fuel trucks
After a series of winter storms, drivers are forced to deny some oil deliveries if they deem conditions unsafe.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, Politics
Tax breaks for research, the energy conscious and the charitable to expire
Congress, in a nearly annual dance, allows 55 popular tax breaks expire at midnight.
Posted inSports
Bulletin Board
The Portland Elks will hold a foul-shooting contest at McAuley High on Jan. 5. There will be competition in boys’ and girls’ divisions in three age categories: 8 and 9, 10 and 11, and 12 and 13. Registration starts at 9 a.m. Winners will move on to the state competition at Oceanside High in Rockland […]