The East Vassalboro Post Office rests discreetly along Main Street in a room hardly bigger than a walk-in closet.

GARDINER — Roger Beck held on long as he could for his customers, but the commute and the economy got to be too much.

AUGUSTA — “How are you, Sgt. Dubois?” asked the woman behind the wheel in a red Chevy Cobalt.

WINTHROP — Idasia Santos spent her summer days in the Bronx, N.Y., hanging out with friends at the playground.

AUGUSTA — Augusta police Major Jared Mills still recalls being in Anthony Drouin’s shoes: Young, excited, wondering what the future holds.

Parishioners at two churches within Augusta-based St. Michael Parish are preparing to look for new places to worship as the plan to close the churches comes closer to being official.

MANCHESTER — Three people, including a child, were taken to a Lewiston hospital Wednesday after a pit bull attacked them at their Prescott Road home.