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/PRNewswire/ -- This summer, Anheuser-Busch is teaming up with the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) for the fourth consecutive year to donate emergency...

NAPLES - Jon Scott Labrecque Sr., 61, of Naples, passed peacefully in the presence of family, after a brief battle with ...

I was excited to see St. Philip’s Strawberry Festival is back, one of the last local annual events to return, at last, as the pandemic wears on and hopefully keeps wearing itself out. As announced in this week’s print edition and at...

A devastating house fire in Maine was ignited by a simple, routine habit: charging a laptop.

March is the month when winter officially ends, spring takes hold, and daylight savings time, well, saves us. This year, it also brought us the start of spring high school sports outdoors, our first ice cream at Red's Dairy Freeze, and, the heartbreaking news from the war in Ukraine. Here are some of the best photos of the month by Press Herald photographers.

Upperclass Hall on the USM Gorham campus was evacuated Monday morning due to the smell of gas and a possible leak. Gorham Fire Dept. found no leak, cleared the scene

GORHAM — A large commercial box truck carrying electrical gear tipped over and slid into a utility pole Thursday on Route 16, injuring the driver who was charged with speeding. The accident caused Route 16 to be closed to traffic for brief periods. Gorham police reported David Downey Jr., 62, of Saugus, Mass., was driving a dual-axle Hino box truck north on Route 16 when the truck drove into the shoulder as it approached a turn near 134 Glen Road. Downey lost control of the truck and it ov...

GREEN’S GRANT — Thirty-one Gorham High School seniors enjoyed an in-person commencement at which they were awarded their diplomas at 6 p.m. on Friday evening at the base of Mount Washington, thanks to the generosity of the family-owned Auto Road and Great Glen. This was the second-year in a row that a far more spectacular venue was used, so that attendees could enjoy the more relaxed social-distancing measures now considered suitable for COVID-19 when outdoors. The Gorham Police Depar...

GORHAM — A tractor-trailer unit and a Federal Express delivery truck collided Friday afternoon on Route 16, causing some traffic problems but miraculously both drivers escaped serious injury. Gorham Police received a call reporting the accident at the intersection of Route 16 and White Birch Lane just after noon. A thorough investigation determined that the Federal Express truck, operated by Katlynn Heimerl, 27, of Whitefield had exited White Lane and was crossing Route 16 to get to Stony ...

Pause in J&J shots raises concerns about vaccine hesitancy in Maine Worry mounts that a clotting problem with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will increase reluctance, but some remain eager and glad to be inoculated. Share Brian Cirone of Windham had an appointment to get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine Tuesday morning but got a call about 45 minutes before his scheduled time telling him it was canceled. Cirone now has an appointment Monday to get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, but says he’d tak...