South Berwick News

For the second year in a row, Foster's Daily Democrat/Foster's Sunday Citizen won the General Excellence award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association signifying recognition as the best small daily newspaper in New England.

Stratham resident Sylvia LaVoie perused a special display of Whitney Houston CDs at Bull Moose Music on Congress Street on Sunday before picking up a $2 copy of "The Bodyguard" soundtrack.

On a normal day, 4 billion shares of stock change hands on the New York Stock Exchange.

South Berwick, Maine, resident Skip Turnbull buys a Powerball ticket Friday at Gary's Beverages on Deer Street in Portsmouth.

SANFORD, Maine - Republicans from Kittery and South Berwick will caucus with the York County Republican Caucus from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb.

In the case of missing toddler Ayla Reynolds, police told News 8 that out of the hundreds of leads they have received, about 100 of them came from people claiming to be psychics.

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.

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

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine - On Wednesday morning, 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.

The women of Bliss have been busy this past year recording their first full length CD titled "Seconds in a Minute." In December, they released the CD to more than 100 people at Three Chimneys Inn.

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.

YORK, Maine - Sunday's Republican caucus in York marks the first of the local caucuses in the southern Maine Seacoast area during this year's presidential election season.

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine - The Outlook Farm will be transformed into a winter wonderland for the Dover Womenaid's two-day Big Chill event.

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine - Police are looking for anyone involved in igniting a small, homemade explosive in or near a resident's mailbox Wednesday afternoon.

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.

John Huff/Staff photographer Surrounded by Berwick firefighters and department staff, Berwick Fire Chief Dennis Plante holds a shadow box containing fire service memorabilia given to him by the firefighters at a dinner held in his honor recently at Berwick Town Hall.

BERWICK, Maine - A Berwick man was arrested on Saturday morning after trespassing on private property while under the influence of bath salts.

Garrett Cheney listens as closing arguments in the hit-and-run case against him are presented at the Penobscot Judicial Center in Bangor in July 2011.

AUGUSTA, Maine - The Maine Coastal Program at the State Planning Office has announced the award of $291,000 in grants for eight projects along the Maine coast, including projects in southern Maine.