2024
Posted inBiddeford-Saco-OOB Courier
Ruralist Lament: Thoughts on the darkest day
What the Romans called “the new sun” rises. The seed catalogs are arriving and though the wood stove’s fire struggles against the strengthening cold, a new year is being born. This theme of death and rebirth, ebb and the flow has long occupied human thought and practice. Huge stones, hauled great distances and erected with […]
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Posted inKennebunk Post
School board chair, vice-chair step down
Chair Lesley Stoeffler and Claudia Sayre will step down effective Jan. 6. Both will still remain on the school board.
Posted inBiddeford-Saco-OOB Courier, Kennebunk Post
Shuttered restaurants cite rising costs, post-pandemic shift
Small restaurants in Saco, Biddeford, and Kennebunk are shutting their doors before 2025.
Posted inPortland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Seafood and creativity on display at Portland Feast of the Seven Fishes
Portland restaurants Bissell Brothers and Regards offered seven-course seafood menus for the traditionally Italian American celebration of Christmas Eve.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Biden and gang say don’t sweat the drones
The Wall Street Journal has just published a “blockbuster” story that President Biden has been in significant mental and physical decline for the past four years. The WSJ’s headline is such old news, and so out of date, that it reads like it was written in 2022 — when it should have been if the […]
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, Portland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Falmouth testing Metro’s first-ever on-demand shuttle service
The new Metro Connect aims to service areas where the Route 7 bus will no longer stop as of Dec. 29.
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
It Happened in Windham: Old-time Christmas memories of a Windham old-timer
One of the most popular features on the Windham Maine Historical Society’s Facebook page is the daily account from the diary of Depression-era housewife Alice Gilman. In 1938, Alice and her family lived in the Newhall section of town off of River Road. If you follow the daily entries, you know that she has a […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly, Northern Forecaster, Portland Forecaster, Scarborough Leader, South Portland Sentry, The Forecaster
DA office awarded grant to track, test sexual assault kits
The nearly $2.5 million three-year federal grant for the project will make it so Maine is no longer the sole state to not inventory any sexual assault kits.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Tickets on sale for Shania Twain in July, 12/OC in August
Local country band 12/OC is headlining at Thompson’s Point in Portland on Aug. 23.