Editor, I find it admirable for John M. Flagler of Alfred to defend Cierra Albert’s column about gun violence, but your letter to the editor does not differ much from her article. Due to your inaccurate use of the facts on the issue, your statements stating “Inventor’s family says it’s an Assault Rifle,” is correct. […]
May 2018
Biddeford Police Log
BIDDEFORD — The following individuals were arrested or issued a summons by Biddeford Police from April 13 to April 20, 2018: • Emil H. Girard, 18, of Biddeord, was arrested for aggravated criminal mischief, burglary of a motor vehicle and criminal mischief. • Celina M. Ryan-Davis, 34, of Old Orchard Beach, was arrested for an outstanding warrant. […]
Donna Bryant
SACO — Donna Bryant, 77, of Flag Pond Road Saco, passed away peacefully Sunday April 29, 2018 at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough. She was born in Portland, Maine on Feb. 4, 1941 the daughter of Mike and Kathleen Stubbs Reynolds. She attended local schools and later graduated from Samuel D. Hanson High […]
Alice T. Langdon
OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Alice Therese Murphy Langdon passed away peacefully on April 27, 2018 at her home in Old Orchard Beach. She was born and raised in Bronx, New York and was the daughter of Alice Acquinas O’Neill Murphy and James Francis Murphy. She graduated from St. Nicholas of Tolentine and attended Fordham University […]
Patricia A. Bolduc
SCARBOROUGH — Patricia A Bolduc, 59, died April 18, 2018 at Gosnell Memorial house, in Scarborough, Maine after a short illness. Her Memorial Service will be held this Saturday at the Free Baptist Church, 213 Main St., East Waterboro, Maine. The Celebration of Her life will start at 10 a.m. and Service at 10:30 a.m. […]
New turf proposed for Biddeford field
BIDDEFORD — It was just about a year ago that the future of Waterhouse Field, where for generations Biddeford residents have cheered the Biddeford High School Tiger football and other sports teams, was in question. The bleachers were deemed unsafe and the field was closed. But thanks to the generosity of volunteers and some creative […]
Israel’s Mossad spy agency shrouded in mystery and mystique
JERUSALEM — Israel’s seizure of Iran’s purported nuclear program archive and the dramatic display of the documents taken from a facility in the heart of Tehran marked a rare case of Israel going public about the operations of its top-secret Mossad spy agency. The Mossad, long shrouded in mystery and mythology, is legendary in international […]
Annual Supreme Court guessing game: Will Kennedy stay or go?
WASHINGTON— Justice Anthony Kennedy has his law clerks lined up for next year. He plans to teach in Salzburg, Austria, in July, as he has done almost every summer for more than two decades. In short, there are no outward signs that the 81-year-old justice is in his final months on the Supreme Court. So […]
US wants proof Canada saves whales, but some scientists balk
PORTLAND — A group of Democratic senators says the U.S. should audit the job Canada is doing to protect endangered whales, but the Canadian government and some U.S. scientists are reacting coolly to the idea. The senators, led by Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts, cite the dire status of North Atlantic right whales as a […]
YCCC to expand offerings at Sanford facility
SANFORD — Jeff Skeats of Wells carefully bent to his task, fashioning brass plumb bob on a lathe. Julie Allen of North Berwick, at a nearby lathe, put the finishing touches on hers. Both are students in the precision machining technology programs at York County Community College’s instructional facility in Sanford. “I like it, it’s […]