Biddeford

Politics

Portland and Biddeford mayors call for release of additional funds for Mainers losing SNAP benefits

Madi Smith

Biddeford Mayor Marty Grohman is calling for a special session of the legislature to tap into the budget stabilization fund, also know as the rainy day fund, to pay the 170,000 Mainers expected to lose federal SNAP benefits as of this weekend.

Courts and Crime

Biddeford High School students dismissed early after man with a firearm seen near the school

Madi Smith

Biddeford Police Chief, JoAnne Fisk said, 21-year-old Mohammed Hussein Kamaluldeen of Biddeford has been charged with possession of a firearm near a school.

Three police officers in fluorescent yellow jackets stand in the road near barricades at a public event

Maine

Biddeford police officer killed in a crash on Piscataqua River Bridge

Madi Smith

A Biddeford police officer was killed in a crash on the Piscataqua River Bridge early this morning.

Courts and Crime

Judge awards $1.2 million to victim in Biddeford hate crime

Nick Song

A civil court judge has awarded a Biddeford man over one million dollars in damages from his attackers in a racially-motivated assault in 2018.

In this photo taken Monday, Dec. 22, 2014, garbage collector Anousone Sadettanh runs to his truck with a small residential garbage bin as larger yard waste and recycling bins stand behind as he works his pickup route in Seattle. Fail to recycle in Seattle and you can get a ticket from the garbage collector. The city says it will start enforcing new recycling requirements on Jan. 1 with warning tags. Careless residents will start seeing fines July 1 on their bills $1 per violation, $50 for a commercial or apartment building.

Environment and Outdoors

Repeat contaminators could lose access to recycling services in Biddeford

Robbie Feinberg

Under a new ordinance, the city can revoke recycling collection services if a resident's recycling container is found contaminated three times.

A man crosses the street in downtown Biddeford on a scorching Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021.

Environment and Outdoors

Urban Heat Even Affects Small Cities. Biddeford Is Doing Something About It

Biddeford is strategizing about how to minimize heat in the future by preserving and adding green spaces and using more porous surfaces.

Maine

Publishers Sue City Over Ordinance Limiting Free Papers

Associated Press

Two Maine newspapers are suing the city of Biddeford over an ordinance that curbs the deliveries of free unsolicited papers.The Portland Press Herald…