Dina Mendros

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Published
April 2, 2020

Letters to the editor, April 2

Biddeford AMVETS Post 1 reaches out to veterans during COVID-19 stand done To the editor, Two weeks after AMVETS Post 1 closed due to Coronavirus spread, six post officers volunteered to call all Post 1 veterans. The purpose of the call was to ask about their well-being as well as to offer them non-cash assistance […]
Published
April 2, 2020

Nature’s lessons take many forms

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing left to explore on Earth. ~Nathan Wolfe I will refrain from rehashing current events or their vast implications. Someone (I don’t know who) said it best when he, or she, […]
Published
April 2, 2020

Goosefare Brook Watershed Restoration Grant updates, development projects and Clean-Up Day

In 2018 the Town of Old Orchard Beach, in partnership with the City of Saco and the York County Soil and Water Conservation District (YCSWCD) was awarded an implementation grant for Phase II of the Goosefare Brook Watershed Restoration Project. Funding for this project was provided in part by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under […]
Published
March 30, 2020

Saco Food Pantry remains open

The Saco Food Pantry remains open during its regular hours, Monday through Friday, 9 to 10:30 a.m. and the last Tuesday of the month, 5 to 6:30 p.m. A new pick up procedure has been put in place for everyone’s protection. More volunteers are needed, those interested may contact Lynn Steed at lsteed203@gmail.com for more […]
Published
March 29, 2020

Scarborough 2020 Comprehensive Plan is ready to review

The Town of Scarborough’s Long Range Planning Committee (LRPC) released a new draft of the proposed 2020 Comprehensive Plan for the public to review. The Comprehensive Plan articulates a vision of the community and provides a series of steps to support the vision. The Plan is aimed at being an expression of Scarborough’s residents hopes […]
Published
March 27, 2020

Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland offers online services

Locally, Good Shepherd Parish in Saco holds online Masses.
Published
March 27, 2020

Biddeford representative to hold live online meeting regarding COVID-9

Ryan Fecteau will discuss state and federal response to the coronavirus, employment insurance and more.
Published
March 27, 2020

Scarborough Library launches website on library expansion

Life has few certainties. The popular adage contends there are only two, death and taxes. But we contend there is one more: everyone has a favorite book. Whether it takes you back to your earliest childhood memories like Robert McCloskey, reminds you there is good in the world like E.B. White, or makes you super […]
Published
March 27, 2020

Scarborough students earn honors

Addison Boisvert has been named to the fall 2019 dean’s list at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. Full-time students who complete 12 or more credits per semester and earn a GPA of 3.4 or higher are placed on the dean’s list that semester. Jonathan Hayes made the dean’s list for fall 2019 semester […]
Published
March 26, 2020

Legislature passes COVID-19 relief

With a void of leadership in Washington, the state is stepping up to provide relief. Government has a core responsibility to help provide relief related to this public health crisis; to those being impacted financially, assist those in need of care, coordinate emergency response, and support our front-line health professionals. The Legislature passed a sweeping […]

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