North Berwick News

North Berwick, Maine - MSAD 60 voters in all three communities approved the board of directors recommended budget of $36,192,964 at the polls Tuesday by a vote of 456-354. The breakdown for the three sending communities is follows: Lebanon, 126-113; Berwick, 171-132; and North Berwick, 159-109. Also, in a 543-260 districtwide vote, all three towns ... (more)

Maine Speaker of the House Mark W. Eves, D-North Berwick, speaks during a press conference delivering the Democratic response to Gov.

Maine House and Senate votes are expected soon on a bill to ensure that welfare recipients get the tools and training they need to enter the workforce and secure long-term employment.

A Roast Beef Supper will be held at the Berwick United Methodist Church, 37 School Street in Berwick on Saturday, May 11, from 4:30-6 p.m. Featuring Roast Beef, real mashed potatoes, gravy, carrots, green beans, pickled beets, home made bread, strawberry Shortcake, coffee, tea, juice or milk.

Residents from North Berwick, Berwick and Lebanon at a public hearing Thursday night supported the MSAD 60 board of directors $36,192,964 budget plan for FY14.

The 10-member Legislative Council voted unanimously Thursday to send the City of Lewiston $30,000 to help some of the 200 people left homeless by three downtown fires last week.

York County Community Health Care's new Nasson Health Center, which opens May 21, spans the entire second floor of the building at 15 Oak Street and will be able to serve more than twice the number of active patients than the organization currently can at its facility on Patriots Lane.

Lawmakers have made progress on a measure to use revenue from the state's next wholesale liquor contract to pay off Maine's debt to its 39 hospitals, but Democratic leaders differ on whether the bill should be tied to an expansion of MaineCare .

A town hearing on the MSAD 60 budget will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday at Noble High School, where the budget will be presented and voted on.

More than 25 firefighters smothered hot spots and cut down trees to contain a blaze after a small structure and brush fire ignited in a residential backyard Tuesday afternoon.

Artwork from area students will be part of the 35th annual Student Art Show at Barn Gallery on Bourne Lane at Shore Road from 1 to 4 p.m. May 11 and 12.

A representative of Maine's hospitals said Monday he is surprised and disappointed that Democratic lawmakers want to combine a decision on Medicaid expansion with a proposal to pay a $186 million debt to hospitals.

Democrats who now want to expand the Medicaid program under the federal Affordable Care Act are "jumping the gun" because not enough is known yet about the program, Gov.

AUGUSTA Democratic legislative leaders told Gov. Paul LePage that they'll pass his plan to pay back Maine's hospitals.

Rabies Clinic will be held on Sunday, May 12 at the North Berwick Community Center on Lebanon Road in North Berwick.

A legislative committee kicked off a week of hearings on tax proposals Tuesday, previewing Democratic alternatives to measures in Gov.

Close to 200 people paid tribute to World War II, Korean and Vietnam-area veterans on Sunday as they received "quilts of valor" from volunteers during a ceremony at the American Legion Post in town.