Biddeford-Pool News

Biddeford Pool, ME. The Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse have announced that the first major phase of restoration at Wood Island Lighthouse has begun.

In June, HomeHealth Visiting Nurses recently presented $100 scholarships to several graduating seniors from York County high schools who will be pursuing careers in nursing at an accredited post-secondary institution.

Ruth Bentley Rowland Parker, 98, of Kennebunk, formerly of Toronto, Canada, Greenwich, Conn., and Kennebunkport, died Friday, Sept.

For many of us now living in Maine, it is the siren-call of memories of past summers growing up here that draws us back.

York Public Library's Brown Bag Lunch Author Program series will present Maine author Lisa Barstow at noon Tuesday.

Liability and logistical issues will keep Cape Neddick Light Station closed to tourists Saturday, Sept.

Local history writers rely heavily on newspaper archives to get a contemporary point of view on the past.

Local history writers rely heavily on newspaper archives to get a contemporary point of view on the past.

Despite cool, rainy weather, the second annual Nicole's 5-kilometer Run/Walk drew more people than last year and exceeded its fund-raising goal.

Cape Arundel is spared a seaborne assault in 1812. July 09, 2009 6:00 AM Atwater Kent's neighbors had some unsavory things to say about him when he desecrated the Jeremiah Smith cemetery and flattened a War of 1812 fortification to expand his Cape Arundel lawn.

One of the two journalists held over seven months by the Taliban in Pakistan is David Rohde, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter with ties to the Kennebunks.

The HMS Bulwark's raiding party. June 11, 2009 6:00 AM The people of Biddeford Pool were alarmed by the sight of a 74-gun ship of the Royal Navy, anchored off Wood Island at 9 o'clock, on the morning of June 16, 1814.

Herb's started out as a fish fry take-out on York Street in Kennebunk in the 1990s, and soon expanded to include a fish market and all-around bargain store.

On Saturday, June 20, to cap a "24 Hours of Kindness" event scheduled for June 18), three regional musicians are slated to perform in a benefit concert with all proceeds going to The Kindness Center.

BIDDEFORD AND SACO : Responding to a Maine Department of Environmental Protection mandate to tweak shoreland zoning regulations by July 1, some cities and towns across the state are scrambling to rewrite ordinances affecting private property rights.

Wabanakis called this gorge ?place of the perpetual rainbow.? Have you ever rafted through this ravine? Salon Prints At Sarah Jeanne's Family Hair Care in Lewiston, the pursuit of beauty takes many wild and wonderful forms, as photographer Melonie Bennett discovered.

Wood Island, near Biddeford Pool, has been the scene of murder, illegal liquor distribution and countless shipwrecks during the last 200 years.