Eliot News

AUGUSTA, Maine - A bill that would allow the New Hampshire-based COAST bus company to expand into southern York County was heard before the Legislature's Judiciary Committee Thursday.

KITTERY, Maine - Veteran educator Eric Waddell is expected to be named the new principal of Traip Academy at a special School Committee meeting tonight.

Students in all three Maine school districts in southern York County fared significantly better than their peers statewide in New England Common Assessment Program testing.

YORK, Maine - York Hospital is in discussions with area towns to provide a regional ambulance service, and is receiving a variety of responses from wholehearted support to caution.

ELIOT, Maine - Richard L. Bond, 68, of Beech Ridge Road in Eliot, died Friday, Feb.

The McClellan family of Eliot says they are being pressured to get rid of their four chickens or be fined.

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine - Kennebunk Savings Bank donated $10,000 to the Friends of the South Berwick Library for its continued fundraising efforts toward construction on the town's new library.

John Huff/Staff photographer Womenaid members, from left, Susan Kenyon, Britta Ayer, Tawny Gilbert, Krissie Silveril, Danielle Holt and Dee Kinsman pose with a throne ice sculpture created by sculptor Murray Long at the group's first Big Chill fundraising weekend event kickoff at the Red Barn at Outlook Farm in South Berwick, Maine, Friday evening.

Presidential primary season is rapidly approaching. To date there has been a lot of attention paid to the caucuses and primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida and Super Tuesday.

Students in all three Maine school districts in southern York County fared significantly better than their peers statewide in the New England Common Assessment Program.

Congratulations and a deep sigh of relief are in order for the residents of Eliot, Maine, who this week learned that a proposed strip club will not be opening on Route 236.

ELIOT, Maine - Selectmen and residents voiced many concerns with the draft proposed ordinance related to domestic chickens at their meeting last Thursday, but agreed to have a revised draft presented to the Planning Board for its consideration.

The 403 Gentlemen's Club and property owner Donald Denunzio filed paperwork in U.S. District Court in Portland earlier this month, dismissing the lawsuit Denunzio filed against the town in May 2011.

Presidential primary season is rapidly approaching. To date there has been a lot of attention paid to the caucuses and primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida, and Super Tuesday.

Michael Landgarten, who owns Bob's Clam Hut and Robert's Maine Grill in Kittery, and Jackie Nooney, owner of Jacquelyn Nooney Landscape Inc.

ELIOT, Maine - Police arrested the driver of an 18-wheeler Wednesday night on suspicion he was operating under the influence and on other charges after he allegedly drove the tractor-trailer off the road and into some mailboxes.