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When it comes to fresh food, you can’t get fresher than a local farm. Maine Open Farm Day is an annual, state-wide celebration of the agricultural industry that dates back to 1989. Held on the fourth ...
Norman Belanger, City Councilor from Ward 6, has announced his candidacy for Mayor of the City of Biddeford. The Ward 6 Councilor announced his candidacy in a July 22 press release. Belanger was born ...
Step inside Rift Arcade in downtown Biddeford and you’ll feel like you’re being welcomed back to the 1990s. “When you walk in here, it’s like time-traveling,” said Casi Buckman, who owns the arcade at ...
Homeowners who maintain a lawn or do some gardening in hopes of outwitting the chipmunks and woodchucks know they’re got more than varmints to worry about: if American bittersweet or Japanese knotweed ...
Nestled in between Dairy Queen and Bill’s Pizza in downtown Old Orchard Beach is a new coffee shop. Tide and Grind opened this week, and will remain open for the season from 7 a.m. – 2 p.m. daily. The ...
The Jubilee Island Music Series is back in downtown Saco for another round of summer sounds, and the first concert is scheduled for this weekend. Every year, Saco Parks and Recreation Department hosts ...
In a 3-2 vote, the Biddeford Planning Board approved on Wednesday the preliminary site plan shoreline zoning for a permanent marine science center research pier that the University of New England is ...
The first-ever Firestone Complete Auto Care store in Maine is opening in Biddeford next month. Bridgestone Retail Operations, LLC, a subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas, Inc., announced in a press ...
You can’t escape the sunrise at The Voyager Motel in Old Orchard Beach. The image is on coffee mugs, clocks, cornhole boards and room number signs. It’s the motel’s logo, and with good reason. “The ...
ALFRED – York County’s $28.6 million budget for the fiscal year that began July 1 is now in effect following a unanimous July 2 vote to ratify by York County Commissioners. The York County Budget ...
Fran Day has lived and worked in several resort communities, but none quite like Ocean Park. Day started last month as the Executive Director for the Ocean Park Association, the organization that ...
History, of sorts, was made in Saco on July 8 when a team of public works employees installed speed tables and signage, flexible delineator posts and painted pavement markings adjacent to the ...