Entries in Saturday’s 36th annual student film and video festival were on the edgier, darker side this year, with homelessness and stages of grief among the themes.

Fairfield is the recipient of a $250,000 Community Development Block Grant that it will use to fix up the homes of the town’s low-income residents, like Clifford Risinger, who is optimistic about the future, regardless of his physical circumstances.

The Old Hallowell Day parade again drew thousands of people to the route along Water Street in downtown Hallowell.

Opponents rally against reversing the Portland to Montreal pipeline to transport the oil.