South Berwick News

Hackmatack Playhouse patrons are being encouraged to donate to help fund some much needed improvements to what's been called one of New England's most charming and quaint summer theaters.

The South Berwick Public Library annual Open House and Book Sale event will be on Saturday, June 9, from 9-1 p.m. on Young Street.

Gillian Cusack, a member of Old Berwick Historical Society's board of directors, demonstrates how to read a QR code with her phone at the exhibit "People, Places, and Pantaloons: Style along the Salmon Falls through the Lives of Four South Berwick and Rollinsford Families" at the Counting House.

Courtesy photo Martin England and the Reconstructed will perform June 15 at Marshwood High School as a fundraiser to help complete the new South Berwick Public Library.

Two other people in the vehicle were also charged. Their charges were previously published.

Craig Tuminaro is not a typical history buff. He is young and is passionate about his work with Historic New England, and seeks to spread the historical seed around the Seacoast.

Old Berwick Historical Society members get a first peek at the new exhibits on clothing and tools at the Counting House during the society's annual meeting May 24.

Stevens was honored May 19 at Spring Hill Restaurant, surrounded by her family and nearly 150 friends and community members.

YORK BEACH, Maine - Michael J. Alterio Jr., 72, formerly of Secaucus, N.J., and Reading, Mass., died Saturday, May 26, 2012.

Men and women of all ages sped around a dirt track at the Rochester Fair Grounds this weekend as a part of the second annual American Racing Mower Association Northeast National championship.

KITTERY, Maine - Firefighters from across the region were hailed as heroes Thursday for overcoming a hazardous blaze aboard USS Miami that started the night before, but whether the $900 million submarine can be saved is in doubt.

FARMINGTON, Maine- - The following local students of the University of Maine at Farmington marched on Saturday, May 12, at the 2012 Commencement Ceremony KITTERY: Catherine Proctor, B.A., Int Studies - Music Arts; LEBANON: Justine DiMambro, B.S., Community Health Education; Jordan Turcotte, B.S., Secondary Education Social Studies and B.A., ... (more)

A group of third-graders from Central School learn contra dancing at "Newichawannock Hall" during the school's annual third-grade Hike through History tour.

Maybe you missed it. If you are not a fan of New England poetry, it might have slipped past you but even if you don't follow local literary luminaries you ought to know that a few weeks ago scores of people came to York to celebrate the life and work of May Sarton.

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine - The Town Council Tuesday night discussed critical matters related to the Vaughan Fund in addition to several new business matters, one of which extended Town Manager Perry Ellsworth's position through June 2014.

In this August 2005 photo, Lindsey Altshul poses in the bar of his restaurant Pepperland Cafe, at 279 Main St.

Honored for her more than 50 years of dedication the community she called home for just as long, Margaret Stevens sat surrounded by more than 150 friends and family members Saturday evening as she was awarded the Eliot-South Berwick Rotary Club's 2012 Citizen of the Year Award.

Eliot Community Service Department, in collaboration with Almost Home Rescue of Maine, will hold a Dog Dayz of Summer celebration from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, May 19, at the Eliot Boat Basin.

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine - The School Administrative District 35 School Board voted Wednesday night to allocate $225,000 of a $450,000 carry-over from the current fiscal year to reducing the assessment to Eliot and South Berwick for the Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine - Some residents are already feeling the pinch after Gov. Paul LePage changed the eligibility requirements for the federally funded program known as TANF, or temporary assistance to needy families grants from the state.