2018
Marean deserves credit for solar power vote
Editor, As State Representative Don Marean returns to Augusta this January to make decisions about solar energy, I’d like to thank him for supporting solar power last summer by voting to overturn the flawed Public Utilities Commission rule. Using the power of the sun that shines on Maine homes and businesses—and putting Mainers to work […]
The price they paid
Some think that the Bundy’s got off scot-free when U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro dismissed cases against Cliven and sons Ammon and Ryan and co-defendant Ryan Payne and accused their prosecutors, the government, of willfully withholding evidence from Bundy lawyers in violation of the federal Brady rule thus denying them due process. She referred to […]
OOB Police Log
OLD ORCHARD BEACH — The Old Orchard Beach Police Department has released the names of individuals arrested or cited from Dec. 25 to Jan. 7. William Rice, 55, of 38 Preble St., Portland, was arrested at 3:58 p.m. on Dec. 27 and charged on a warrant. Anthony Lallis, 63, of 21 Wilson St., Biddeford was […]
Catholic order invests 3 Good Shepherd Parish members
BIDDEFORD — Three members of Good Shepherd Parish have been invested into the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem by Sean Cardinal O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston. According to Good Shepherd Parish Monsignor René Mathieu, Deacon Kevin Jacques with his wife Aline, and Deborah Hollis were honored in November at a Mass celebrated in St. Mary Church, Bristol, […]
Berwick crash claims life of Sanford driver
BERWICK — A 31-year-old Sanford man was pronounced dead at a New Hampshire hospital Wednesday afternoon after the 2006 Ford Fusion he was driving was rear-ended and sent into the path of an oncoming school bus. Police on Thursday were continuing to investigate the cause of the 1:39 p.m. crash that claimed the life of […]
Shapleigh suspect faces domestic assault charge
SHAPLEIGH — A 28-year-old Shapleigh man remained at York County Jail this morning, held on a misdemeanor domestic violence assault charge after he allegedly beat up his girlfriend Wednesday night. The woman fled from the home they shared and called the York County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff William King said Nicholas Tapscott was arrested without incident […]