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OOB considers year-round train stop

OLD ORCHARD BEACH - There’s a strong desire among business owners, town leaders and town staff to make Old Orchard Beach a year-round stop for the Downeaster train, which currently runs between Portla

Eliot Cutler to visit Thornton on May 1

SACO - Eliot Cutler will visit Thornton Academy in Saco on Tuesday, May 1, to share his experiences in business, law and public service.

Crosstown trail proposed for Old Orchard Beach

In order to take better advantage of a new section of the Eastern Trail, which runs off Cascade Road, the Conservation Commission in Old Orchard Beach is proposing the creation of a new cross-town tra

Conflict charge on Scarborough pesticide flap heads to hearing

SCARBOROUGH – Within 24 hours late last week, Scarborough did two 180-degree turns on an updated pesticide-use policy, ending up exactly where it started – with the exception that one town councilor n

Councilors: Close Hinckley Street for South Portland Farmers' Market

SOUTH PORTLAND – It appears city councilors are set to approve moving the South Portland Farmers’ Market out of Thomas Knight Park, where it struggled though its first summer last year, and onto Hinck

Lyman’s charter panel tackles the issues

LYMAN - The two-month-old Lyman Charter Commission so far has agreed to keep the annual town meeting as the means of approving the municipal budget, but now it’s getting ready to tackle the “hard stuf

Busy summer in Waterboro

WATERBORO - The department is gearing up for its 19th year of day camp at the Waterboro Elementary School campus. The camp includes fun weekly themes, Tuesday visits to Bunganut Lake for swimming, plu

Vandals hit Shapleigh's fields

SHAPLEIGH - In the past three weeks or so, someone has vandalized the recreational fields off Route 11, which are owned and operated by the town of Shapleigh. And it didn’t happen just once, but repea

Sanford Maine Stage looking 
for new location

A financially troubled community theater company is looking for a new home, but the group’s organizers have pledged this week that this is not the final curtain call for a company that has been perfor

INSIDE ACTON - 4/24

Assistant sought 
in town office