ALFRED — A Gorham suspect in a burglary earlier this year turned herself in to authorities earlier this week and remained incarcerated at York County Jail on Thursday. Jennifer Talbot, 34, is accused of stealing a handgun — a .22 caliber Beretta — and about $200 from a home on Clark’s Mills Road back in January. […]
March 2018
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Baseball author set for library appearance
KENNEBUNK — As the 2018 baseball season opens, Carl Johnson, who covers the Red Sox for the Biddeford Journal Tribune, will be at the Kennebunk Free Library on Wednesday, April 4th, at 6 p.m., to talk baseball and introduce his latest book ‘Life After Big Papi. ‘ The book analyzes the Red Sox’s future without […]
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Volunteer Fair coming to Wells Reserve
WELLS — A Volunteer Fair will be held at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm from 11 a.m. to noon Thursday, March 29. Discover what hundreds of energetic people already know: It’s rewarding to volunteer at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm. Many enjoy being tour guides, citizen scientists, event planners, and hospitality specialists because of the reserve’s natural […]
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Wells Junior High singers participate in music festival
WELLS — Thirteen Wells Junior High School students participated in the Southern Maine Middle School Honors Festival for seventh- and eighth-grade students on March 2 and March 3 at South Portland High School. Students from about a dozen middle schools participated in this annual event that highlights talented junior high singers. The festival for sixth-grade […]
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Saco School Board approves school budget
SACO — The Saco School Board has approved a nearly $39.3 million budget proposal to be forwarded to the City Council. The School Board approved the budget proposal unanimously Wednesday night, with School Board member Lynn Leary absent. Wednesday’s approval was the first of three approvals needed for the school budget. The City Council must […]
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Kurt A. Rosell
BELGRADE LAKES – Heaven was blessed in the early morning hours of Wednesday March 21, 2018, with the readmittance of a self-taught chef, builder, craftsman and woodworker extraordinaire who used his God-given talents to make this world a better place than when he first arrived on March 10, 1952. Kurt Allan Rosell, age 66, “middle […]
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Woman charged after allegedly using drugs in public restroom
SANFORD — Police, responding to a report of someone allegedly using drugs in the public restroom of a convenience store Wednesday night, took a 40-year-old Berwick woman into custody. Christiane Hollis was charged with seven counts of unlawful possession of scheduled drugs, said Sanford Deputy Police Chief Tim Strout. He said police were called to […]
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Marie A. Jacques
SACO — Marie A. Jacques, 95, of Saco and formerly of Old Orchard Beach died Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at Seal Rock Health Care. She was born June 27, 1922 in Biddeford a daughter of Edouard and Arabella (Martineau) Goudreau and was educated in Biddeford Schools. On Dec. 27, 1941, she married Gerard F. Jacques […]
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Maine Maple Sunday
This weekend, sugar houses across the state are opening their doors to the public for Maine Maple Sunday, an annual tradition now in its 35th year. During Maple Sunday, which some farms observe on Saturday, maple producers offer tours of their operations. Some also have farm and barn tours. Others have breakfasts and some have […]
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Biddeford Rising smoothes transition for immigrant families
BIDDEFORD — Developing a thriving city begins by accepting that we all share the human experience and are interconnected in many different ways in our community. By exploring common ground and extending friendship to newcomers hailing from faraway countries, Biddeford school administrators created Biddeford Rising last fall, a regular event that serves to build bridges between […]