KENNEBUNKPORT — Dogs have a knack of finding owners who need them, and then making them realize what’s truly important in this world. In Liz Baker’s case, sharing her dog Cecil’s journey from abandonment to finding a forever home in her Kennebunkport household last year prompted her write a children’s book about the experience, becoming […]

The Maine Republican Party’s claim in a federal lawsuit that ranked-choice voting could lead to the election of a candidate who isn’t the party’s true “standard bearer” is based on speculation, says an attorney for Secretary of State Matt Dunlap in a formal response to the suit. “The underlying factual assumptions for this theory are […]

SANFORD — There was upbeat music, people holding signs with messages like “we value you,” and “you shine,”  flurries of bubbles, and applause as the community welcomed Sanford High School students on Friday. Students arriving at Sanford High School Friday morning found a joyous and noisy crowd of people from the community and some from […]

  ALFRED — Some of the faces of the five people in residence at the Layman Way Recovery Center may look familiar. They’ve been in trouble with the law, and their mug shots may have appeared in newspapers or on television. They are at the recovery center because they’ve been arrested and taken to York County […]