SANFORD — She’s been a teacher and more recently, an assistant principal, and now Pam Lydon has been named principal at Sanford Junior High School. Superintendent David Theoharides announced Lydon’s new job Monday afternoon. Lyndon, in the teaching profession for 14 years, was chosen from a field of 18 applicants. She was one of four […]
2015
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Mainers late rally falls short in loss
SANFORD — The Sanford Mainers (6-7) offense awoke in the final two innings of the game, but it was too little too late as the Moose fell to the North Adams SteepleCats (8-6) by the score of 8-5 Monday night at Goodall Park. For the second time in three nights, the Mainers bats were quieted […]
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Rollande Nanos
BIDDEFORD — Rollande Nanos, 88, of Biddeford, died Thursday, June 18, 2015 at Seal Rock Health Care in Saco. She was born May 30, 1927 in Biddeford, a daughter of Majorique and Evelyn (Pettigrew) Lessard and was educated locally. On Aug. 31, 1952 she married Michael Nanos in Biddeford. Rollande is preceded in death by: […]
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Maine briefs
Lawmakers overturn 13 LePage vetoes, sustain 9 AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine lawmakers have overturned Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of a bill that seeks to expand access to medicine that counteracts allergic reactions. The House and Senate overrode LePage’s veto of Democratic Rep. Matt Peterson’s bill on Monday. It will now become law. It will […]
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Home in fatal Kennebunk fire lacked smoke detectors
KENNEBUNK — The Maine Department of Public Safety says that the man who died in a Kennebunk house fire early Monday morning and another who escaped were visiting Maine to see their sick mother. Kyle Szlosek, 25, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, and 31-year-old Jonathan Cressey of Suffolk, Virginia, were staying in the two-story, colonial-style home […]
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Attorney says Dylan Collins was detained illegally
BIDDEFORD — The attorney for Dylan Collins, the Biddeford teenager who has been charged with murder and arson in connection with an apartment fire that killed two people last year, has filed a motion to suppress certain evidence from the trial, arguing in part that Collins was detained illegally. Attorney William Ashe filed the motion […]
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Morgan, Lloyd score in US win over Colombia
EDMONTON, Alberta — Now that Alex Morgan has a goal, she doesn’t want to look back on the opportunities she’s missed. She wants to look forward to the goals to come. “I don’t remember the last goal I’ve had with this team,” said Morgan, who had been hampered by a bone bruise in her left […]
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Nature often works miracles when and where we least expect them
When the eastern phoebes returned to this area recently from their annual southerly winter migration, I noticed how close they were keeping to my little porch. Knowing that those sweet little birds like building their nests in covered or protected areas, I suspected they had chosen the underside of the porch for that purpose. I […]
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Fun with food
Culinary Arts students at Old Orchard Beach High School recently made food sculptures for a class project.
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Experts say great white sighting likely basking shark
WELLS — Pictures of a reported great white shark off the coast of Moody Beach in Wells are likely of a harmless basking shark, a professor of Marine Science with shark research experience has told the Journal Tribune. The sighting was reported by a charter fishing boat that reported the sighting 1.2 miles from Moody […]