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Biddeford-Saco-OOB Courier
News from Biddeford, Saco and Old Orchard Beach from Mainely Media.
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Postponed Family Fun Festival now a breakfast event
BIDDEFORD — Extreme heat prompted Biddeford officials to postpone the annual Family Fun Festival this past weekend, but the event, now called the Family Fun BreakFast-ival, will take place Aug. 20. “We’ll be having a Family Fun “BreakFast-ival” from 9 a.m. to noon celebrating families and neighborhoods with free food, music, and activities,” organizers said. […]
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Domestic violence resource center needs Helpline volunteers
The number of calls, and the severity, has increased at a time when Caring Unlimited has 50 to 60 percent fewer volunteer advocates.
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From Augusta: Save it for a rainy day
In day-to-day life, the phrase “save it for a rainy day,” can mean many things: Maybe it’s what you do with that big tip that you got waiting tables in Old Orchard Beach. Maybe your teenager is saving up as they collect wages working at the car wash or serving ice cream cones all summer. […]
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SMHC now offers screening mammograms without referrals
BIDDEFORD — Southern Maine Health Care has expanded mammogram screening services to reach all women in York County, whether or not they are current patients, hospital officials have announced. Director of Communications and Public Affairs Alison Kenty said women living in Biddeford, Saco, Old Orchard Beach, Arundel, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Sanford, Springvale, Lebanon, Shapleigh, Newfield, North […]
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Ribbon cutting Thursday for new Biddeford business
BIDDEFORD — Chaya Studio Jewelry recently opened in Biddeford and on Thursday, Aug. 11, there will be a soldering demonstration at the studio, and the Biddeford & Saco Chamber of Commerce will hold a ribbon cutting at The Hidden Gem in honor of the new business. On Thursday, there will be informal networking and refreshments […]
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Letters to the editor, Aug. 11
Additional funds should have been secured for asylum seeker children to attend Saco schools To the editor, Did everybody see the Saco School Department’s notice about the children of asylum seekers Augusta is relocating to Saco? Mayor William Doyle reposted that memo on his Facebook page. It looks like Saco will most likely have to […]
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Wave goodbye to summer, say hello to fall
Things heated up in July, at least with regard to the temperature, and then, just like that, the last week heading into the last month of our too-short summer things cooled off a bit, and July reminded us that fall is barreling toward us. Not to worry too much though, there is still some summer […]
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Library Links: The granite kiss
Mr. Morin lived next door to me when I was growing up. On weekends he would go out to abandoned farmhouses and follow the stone walls to a corner of the property where two walls intersected marking boundaries. There he would dig, scraping through layers of refuse left behind by long ago occupants of the […]
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Old loom will be a centerpiece of Biddeford Mills Museum
The miniature loom is undergoing repairs in Lowell, Mass.