BIDDEFORD — With more than 9 percent of students this year coming from immigrants new to Maine, the Biddeford School Department continues to seek new ways to reach out and welcome parents and families adjusting to life in a new country. By exploring common ground and extending friendship to newcomers hailing from faraway countries, Biddeford […]
October 2018
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State on high alert as whooping cough cases soar in York County
Pertussis is circulating at sky-high rates in York County, with 97 cases so far this year, including 25 cases of the highly infectious disease in September. Kennebunk Elementary School and The Middle School of the Kennebunks reported pertussis outbreaks shortly after school started in September. Maine in recent years has consistently recorded one of the […]
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High School Roundup: OOB dominates Traip
OLD ORCHARD BEACH — The Old Orchard Beach High School football team secured a spot in the Class E playoffs with a dominant 46-0 win over visiting Traip Academy on Friday night. Dale Lord led the way for the Seagulls as the senior quarterback ran for 108 yards and two scores in the win. OOB […]
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Rams rally past Mustangs
PORTLAND — The Massabesic football team closed out their season by dropping a heartbreaker 27-16 to Deering at Memorial Stadium on Friday night. “We came ready to play. We tried to win this game but what we’ve done over the last three weeks is we’ve improved so much as a team that we’re really happy […]
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‘Transit Angel’ program delivers bus passes for those in need
SACO — Local communities and social service agencies have a powerful new tool to help build resilience and assist those in need. On Friday morning, Shuttle Bus Zoom’s Transit Angel Project gave the city of Biddeford, the city of Saco, the town of Old Orchard Beach and the Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center hundreds of public […]
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Trojans fall in Class A South prelim
SCARBOROUGH — Regardless of its late-season struggles, the idea of Scarborough’s perennial powerhouse boys’ soccer team being viewed as an underdog just doesn’t seem proper — or realistic. And you can be assured that the higher seeded teams in the region don’t view the Red Storm that way and that Scarborough will relish in that […]
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Gordon Weil: Big money gives campaigns national role
This weeks’ political quiz. One the following is true and one is false. (a) “All politics is local.” (b) Money is the lifeblood of politics. The correct answer is (b). It makes (a) false. The reverse was once true, with election campaigns conducted on a “retail” face-to-face basis on issues that were matters of state […]
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Home Country: ‘Thanks for the dance’
Mrs. Doc watched the dancers swirl around the cleared hardwood floor of the Legion hall, and smiled to see her husband, Doc, waltzing with Ardis Fisher. But Mrs. Doc was never one to sit out a waltz, so she looked around at the menu. Over in the corner, smiling and tapping his foot, was Pop […]
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Actor Bruce Dern released from hospital after fall while jogging
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Bruce Dern has been released from the hospital after a fall during his daily jog in Los Angeles. A representative for the 82-year-old Dern says he was released Friday evening following his fall earlier in the day. The Oscar-nominated actor’s representative says he is in good spirits. No further details […]
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Missing Parsonsfield man found at friend’s house in Sanford
A 51-year-old Parsonsfield man missing since Monday afternoon was found Friday at a friend’s house in Sanford, according to a family member. Game wardens and the York County Sheriff’s Office were searching for Todd Pierce, who had last been seen on Stagecoach Road in Parsonsfield. Pierce, who is deaf and has had recent health issues, […]
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