BRUNSWICK Eye/Hand, an exhibit featuring fine art prints by Judith Long and photographs by Burke Long, opens on March 7 at the Tao Yuan Restaurant, on Pleasant Street in Brunswick. Curated by Joan Carney, the works will be on display through April 30. Joan Carney assembled six distinctive groups consisting of hand pulled prints (etchings, […]
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Bookbinding workshop at the Farnsworth
ROCKLAND The Farnsworth Art Museum on Saturday will host a bookbinding workshop at the museum’s Gamble Education Center. The program will be led by multi- media artist and teacher Cynthia McGuirl, and will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. In this workshop, participants will create their own sketchbook. Bookbinding techniques such as accurate […]
Lisbon crash leaves Bowdoin man in critical condition
LISBON Police say speed and alcohol are factors in a Saturday night crash in Lisbon that left a Bowdoin man critically injured. Lisbon Police Department was called to a crash at the intersection of Ridge and Gould roads at 11:27 p.m. Saturday, according to Lisbon Police Sgt. Harry Moore. When officers arrived they found a […]
Arundel middle students may be prevented from attending Thornton
ARUNDEL — Middle school students in Arundel may be prevented from attending Thornton Academy beginning next school year, ending a decade-long practice. In a letter to Regional School District 21 Superintendent Katie Hawes dated Feb. 16, attorney Dick Spencer of Drummond Woodsum, which represents the district, said he believes Arundel students will not legally be […]
Trial scheduled for 3 accused of 2013 Biddeford murder
PORTLAND — Almost three years after a Biddeford man was shot to death in the parking lot of an apartment building on Birch Street, a trial for the three men charged with his murder is scheduled to begin this fall. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Nov. 4, and, if necessary, continue to Nov. 7, […]
Bill to increase reimbursements for methadone treatment advances
WATERBORO — In Biddeford, of seven people who died from drug overdoses in 2015, six were from heroin, according to Police Chief Roger Beaupre’s annual report. In Sanford, six people died of overdoses attributed to various drugs in 2015, said Deputy Police Chief Tim Strout. Now, a bill designed to help stem the tide of […]
Zika virus identified in Mainer who’d traveled outside US
AUGUSTA (AP) — A Maine resident tested positive for the Zika virus after traveling to a country that’s dealing with an outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus, representing the first case of a traveler from the state contracting the virus, officials said Thursday. The resident was identified only as a Hancock County adult, age 65 or […]
EDC sues owner of planned Biddeford restaurant
BIDDEFORD — The Biddeford-Saco Area Economic Development Corp. is pursuing legal action to recover money loaned to a restaurant that was slated to open on Main Street next week. The EDC loaned $125,000 to Steer N Stein and its owner, Harold E. Royals, to renovate space at 140 Main St. before opening a bar and […]
Sheriff: Cop who killed Kansas gunman a ‘tremendous hero’
HESSTON, Kan. — A man who wounded three people before storming into the central Kansas factory where he worked and shooting 15 others, killing three of them, had just been served a protection from abuse order that likely triggered the attack, a sheriff said Friday. The attack Thursday evening at the Excel Industries lawnmower parts […]