OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Parlez-vous Francais? Old Orchard Beach High School French students are looking for fluent French speakers with whom they can chat. French teacher Catherine Charles said many of her students have summer jobs where they have to communicate with French-speaking customers from Canada. Charles said talking with a native speaker can be […]
October 2014
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Library to offer fine amnesty for month
SANFORD — The Goodall Memorial Library is offering fine amnesty for the month of October. The library will erase fines when patrons donate non-perishable food items. This event will be held in conjunction with the library’s annual pre-holiday food drive. Donations go to the York County Food Pantry, to be distributed to local families in […]
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Volquez looks to continue revival against Giants in NL Wildcard game
PITTSBURGH — Edinson Volquez’s renaissance began with a simple game of catch. During his brief session with Pittsburgh Pirates pitching coach Ray Searage on that January day at the team’s training facility in Florida, the talented but erratic right-hander listened as Searage outlined a plan to help the 31-year-old regain the form that once made […]
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Royals return to playoffs in dramatic fashion, walkoff against A’s
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It had been 29 years since the Kansas City Royals had last been to the postseason ”“ nearly three decades spent mostly in baseball’s backwater, a small-market organization on a shoe-string budget trying in vain to compete with the big boys. On Tuesday night, they returned to the game’s grand stage […]
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Oxford woman faces sentencing in fatal crash
PARIS (AP) — A Maine woman convicted of manslaughter for being behind the wheel during a crash that killed two of her passengers faces sentencing. Kristina Lowe is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday in Oxford County Superior Court in connection with the January 2012 crash in West Paris that took the lives of 19-year-old Logan […]
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Support strong for Sanford school plans
SANFORD — All but a handful of the 217 Sanford residents who cast ballots in a two-part straw poll Tuesday on the concept design of a new high school an technical center supported the proposal. A binding vote will follow at a referendum, currently scheduled for January. And while one resident voiced his dismay about […]
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Kiwanis Club seeks businesses to join expo
SACO — The Saco River Valley Kiwanis Club will be hosting a Business Expo on Wednesday, Nov. 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All area businesses are invited to take part. Tables are available on a first-come, first-served basis for $75. There will be a drawing for a lobster dinner for four, a 50/50 […]
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Woman gets 9 months for embezzlement
PORTLAND (AP) — A Portland woman has been sentenced to nine months in prison for embezzling more than $330,000 from a Chinese company that planned to invest in a Baileyville paper mill. Jody Flynn was also sentenced to three years of probation, ordered to perform 500 hours of community service, and to pay full restitution. […]
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Doris M. Sanborn
ARUNDEL — Doris M. Sanborn, 86, of Arundel, passed away Monday morning on Sept. 29, 2014, at her residence. She was born in Deer Isle on Sept. 23, 1928, a daughter of Mark and Josephine (Fournell) Bishop. She was educated in Biddeford schools. Mrs. Sanborn was a homemaker, who loved raising her family. She enjoyed […]
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Judge hearing Aaron Hernandez bid to suppress evidence
FALL RIVER, Mass. — A Massachusetts prosecutor in the murder case against former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez testified Tuesday against his lawyers’ efforts to suppress cellphone evidence, saying they had agreed to turn the phone over to investigators. Bristol County Assistant District Attorney Patrick Bomberg said Hernandez’s lawyers told him in an initial meeting at the […]