Canaan is commemorating its 225th year next month with dances, food and a parade.

The Bull Moose store at Elm Plaza in Waterville is bursting at the seams and plans to expand this summer into the former Mr. Paperback space next door.

A stranger’s gesture reminds me that in a world where so many bad things happen every day, there are people who are good and thoughtful and kind.

Like the alewives themselves, the money traded for the fish is passed up and down the Sebasticook River and all along Maine’s coast.

Hallowell and Maine Department of Transportation officials are inviting residents and business owners to a public forum Wednesday to learn more about the planned reconstruction of Water Street.

Even as school officials have made cuts elsewhere and overall enrollment has declined by 3.6 percent since 2009-10, the number of children enrolled in pre-kindergarten in eight Augusta-area school districts has risen 11.5 percent, from 486 in 2009-10 to 542 this year.