16+ hour, 54+ min ago  (432+ words) Local and state leaders and dignitaries gathered Thursday morning at the Sweetser campus in Saco for the groundbreaking of Maine's first youth psychiatric residential treatment facility. The need for such a facility is great, and really struck a chord with…...

21+ hour, 35+ min ago  (200+ words) A local man died after he was struck by a train in Old Orchard Beach on Thursday afternoon. Old Orchard Beach Police and Fire/Rescue units were dispatched to the area of the railroad tracks near 133 Temple Ave. around 2: 18 p. m. on…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (432+ words) Every year, hundreds of young people from around the globe come to Old Orchard Beach and other southern Maine communities for summer employment. This summer, there are 409 international students in Old Orchard Beach through the J-1 Visa Summer Work Travel Program,…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (348+ words) The Biddeford City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved the hiring of Cornell Knight as interim City Manager. Knight will replace Truc Devers, who in April, after just nine months on the job, submitted a letter of resignation effective Aug. 3. "My…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (141+ words) If you're headed to Old Orchard Beach this summer, prepare to budget a little extra for parking. The Old Orchard Beach Town Council on Tuesday voted to increase fees for metered parking from $4 to $5 an hour. How does Old Orchard…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago  (173+ words) With some help from the undesignated fund balance, the Old Orchard Beach Town Council approved a fiscal year 2027 budget that will keep the mil rate under $12. On Tuesday, the Town Council approved a nearly $28. 6 million municipal operating budget, covering expenses…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (135+ words) Thornton Academy and the Saco School Department have agreed on a contract. The Saco School Board on Tuesday unanimously approved a five-year contract with TA, which had previously been approved by the Thornton Academy Board of Trustees. Thornton Academy, a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1012+ words) The sign over New Morning Natural Foods in downtown Biddeford is about to change. Sheila Ouellette has been running the Main Street staple since she and her late husband, Paul, opened the store 50 years ago. The store will change hands…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (532+ words) While many long-time regulars mourned the closing of Mulligans at 23 Lincoln St. , Biddeford on June 1, a community of young people were also mourning a space that had become sacred to many of them. Rumors, the music venue in the space…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (818+ words) Canadian-born textile artist Larry Weyand is wrapping up a decade in Newfoundland to take on a new position as Art of Biddeford's first program director. "Given that I have such a connection to Biddeford, it just felt really right to…...