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Biddeford Mayor Martin “Marty” Grohman has announced that he is running for reelection. Grohman made the announcement Thursday afternoon on a post on his Facebook page “Marty Grohman’s Community ...
Lewis is part of Biddeford Community Gardens, where she and other volunteers harvest more than a 1,000 pounds of produce that’s donated to local food pantries and meal programs. She is also helping ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A decade-and-a-half-long project is finally off the ground and into the water in Saco. About fifteen years ago, James Attianese of Casco embarked on building a 38-foot wood and fiberglass catamaran ...
Tensions about a proposed pier that the University of New England wants to construct on the Saco River prompted Biddeford City Manager James Bennett to remove the city’s harbormaster from the review ...
The weather was cloudy and dreary, but it didn’t put a damper on the spirits of public safety and county officials who gathered Thursday morning at Layman Way in Alfred for a ground-breaking ceremony ...
L.L. Bean has announced plans to open a retail store next year in Biddeford. L.L. Bean was founded in 1912 by Leon Leonwood Bean, and is a privately held, family-owned company headquartered in ...
The oldest bookstore in the state will be opening a shop in Saco this year. Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops will be opening a bookstore next to Shaw's in the Saco Valley Shopping Center, 4 Scammon St ...
Renovations underway at a Biddeford building have unveiled beautiful – and intriguing – local art. Original murals and floor tiles about a century old were discovered by Seth Harkness, the owner of a ...