The Major League Baseball season started the night before last. That was once a major event in the lives of a significant number of Americans. But even here in the heart of die-hard Red Sox Nation, a surprisingly large bloc of otherwise rational sports fans, which is perhaps a contradiction in terms, barely acknowledged the […]
2015
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County budget: Sheriff seeks new staffer; probate judge wants more hours, salary
ALFRED — The $19 million York County budget as proposed and introduced last week by County Manager Greg Zinser is up 2.17 percent over the prior year, although the overall impact to the municipalities is proposed to increase by about .75 percent. While county officials have been preparing the budget for a while, Wednesday was […]
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Duke wins 5th title with help of 4 freshmen
INDIANAPOLIS — One by one, the grandchildren filed onto the court. One by one, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski lifted them high into the air, never once worrying about his 68-year-old back. He’ll have plenty of time to ice it later. In one of those saccharine moments that make the Final Four so special, the sight […]
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Saudi-led airstrikes hit Yemen’s south amid ground fighting
SANAA, Yemen — Saudi-led coalition jets bombed a military installation in southern Yemen on Tuesday as local tribes battled Shiite rebels and their allies in the area, seizing a makeshift camp and weapons, Yemeni military officials said. The fighting in southern Ibb province came as the U.N. children’s welfare agency warned that more than 100,000 […]
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Celtics sign Babb, assign him back to Red Claws
BOSTON — The Boston Celtics announced Monday that they have signed guard/forward Chris Babb to a multi-year contact. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. In related moves, the Celtics have waived forward Shavlik Randolph and assigned Babb to the Maine Red Claws. Babb, a 6-foot-5 guard/forward, has appeared in 45 matchups […]
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Local lawmaker wants more CO detectors to prevent posioning
BIDDEFORD — Sen. David Dutremble, D-Biddeford, is championing legislation that aims to prevent deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning. Dutremble, who also serves Alfred, Dayton, Kennebunkport and Lyman, has co-sponsored a bill that would add existing single-family homes, motels, inns, bed and breakfasts, other lodging facilities, college dorms, childcare facilities, and fraternity and sorority houses to […]
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Biddeford man arrested for 2 burglaries
BIDDEFORD — A 26-year-old Biddeford man has been arrested and charged with burglary. Just after 11:30 a.m. Monday, Biddeford police arrested Paul S. Desrosiers, of Pool Street, and charged him with the Class B crime, Biddeford Deputy Police Chief JoAnne Fisk said Monday afternoon. Earlier that day, she said the Biddeford Police Department received a […]
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Marion Johnson
SACO — Marion Ruth Johnson, 92, passed away April 5, 2015 in Kennebunk. She was born on May 19, 1922 in Saco, the daughter of Roy Moulton and Ruth Ellen Hill Fogg. Marion graduated from Thornton Academy, Class of 1940. Marion was employed as the secretary at Fairfield and Young Schools for many years, and […]
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The car wheels of fortune
Spring is in the air. You can see signs of it everywhere ”“ the grass seed commercials on TV, the Miracle-Gro commercials on TV, the allergy commercials on TV, my baseball team losing on TV and the grocery stores selling plastic lawn furniture once again. Sue said something about flowers and birds, but I really […]
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Biddeford police pursue 2 along train tracks
BIDDEFORD — As of 8 this morning, Biddeford police were chasing two men who allegedly attempted to break into a storage unit on Lincoln Street. Deputy Police Chief JoAnne Fisk said both are approximately 30-year-old white males, who were wearing hooded sweatshirts at the time of the alleged crime. When police responded to the scene, […]