Dina Mendros

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Published
December 26, 2023

Strategies for supporting affordable housing related to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard spotlighted in report

Strategies to support local housing production and to make affordable housing easier to build and are spotlighted in a new Housing Report from the Joint Land Use Study (JLUS), funded through a US Department of Defense grant with the Town of Kittery, Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission (SMPDC), and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS). […]
Published
December 26, 2023

Pathfinders provide holiday gift baskets

Since 2013 during the holiday season, the Saco Pathfinders Snowmobile Club, has provided six holiday dinner baskets delivered by the First Parish Congrational Church in Saco. Three of these baskets were delivered for Thansgiving and three for Christmas. The Snowmobile Club clears, maintains and grooms approximately 42 miles of trails in Saco, Scarboro, Biddeford and […]
Published
December 26, 2023

Maine DHHS extends deadline for SNAP recipients to apply for help replacing food

Recipients now have until Jan. 18 to apply for benefits to replace food lost as a result of last weeks’s storm.
Published
December 26, 2023

AMVETS breakfast benefits Toys for Tots

When Santa’s helpers need helpers, Northern York County Toys for Tots volunteers showed up to pick up toys from AMVETS Post 1, in Biddeford. In addition to the toys, was a cash donation from the proceeds of the December AMVETS breakfast. The post kitchen prepared and served over 130 breakfasts. “It was a good breakfast; […]
Published
December 26, 2023

Veterans graves get wreaths thanks to AMVETS Post 1 volunteers

On a recent, Saturday morning earlier this month, beneath sunny, warm skies, 12 AMVETS Post 1 volunteers placed hundreds of Christmas wreathes on veterans’ graves throughout Woodlawn Cemetery. Wreaths were provided by Wreathes Across America. Graves of many veterans were previously marked with small red flags by cemetery staff. This helped volunteers locate and place […]
Published
December 22, 2023

Better Business warns against scams, more

Tell Alexa to play your favorite song. Ask Siri about the weather. Use Google Assistant to turn down the air conditioner. But don’t ask your smart device to look up a phone number, because it could accidentally point you to a scam, according to the Better Business Bureau. How the scam works You need the […]
Published
December 22, 2023

Man arrested in Scarborough for drug trafficking sentenced to 13 years in prison

A Massachusetts man was sentenced to 13 years in prison for possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl stemming from an arrest made at the Walmart in Scarborough. Eddy AZCONA, 27, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced on Dec. 15 in United States District Court in Portland and will serve his time in federal prison. AZCONA […]
Published
December 22, 2023

In the Know: Scarborough Police Department year in review

As we approach the end of 2023, I would like to highlight the top initiatives of our department over the last year. These initiatives included hiring new personnel to fill our ranks in the patrol division and dispatch, the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program and the purchase of a core public safety software suite. […]
Published
December 19, 2023

Thornton Academy Student Council coordinated effort to provide gifts for 11 families

SACO — Brooke Helgesen (left) and Kayleigh Corriveau (right) get a helping hand from Thornton Academy Sophomore Class Advisor Sarah Helgesen as they deliver wrapping paper and gifts for the Salvation Army’s Adopt A Family program. Brooke and Kayleigh are members of Thornton Academy’s Student Council, which coordinated the effort. Thornton students and staff sponsored […]
Published
December 19, 2023

Letters to the Editor, Dec. 14

We can’t fix climate change To the editor, I am responding to the article on the climate change Task Force, from the August 17, 2023 courier. Climate Change, and the belief that you can somehow change it back is a fool’s errand. There is no way the Biddeford Task Force is going to reverse anthropogenic […]

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