WINTHROP — Happy first birthday, Christopher Presti. It’s been a long time coming — four years to be exact.

BELGRADE — Valencia Schubert spent her first two days as the new recreation director meeting children and their parents and learning about the programs offered at the community center.

Maine’s second female U.S. senator is compared to the first, Margaret Chase Smith.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Olympia Snowe said Tuesday that she won’t run for re-election this fall, drawing the curtain on a storied Maine political career and delivering a blow to national Republican hopes to retake a U.S. Senate majority.