Old Orchard Beach

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Old Orchard Beach,

town (1990 pop. 7,789), York co., SW Maine, on the Atlantic coast; settled c.1631, inc. 1883. For many years a popular summer resort, it has a beach and amusement facilities. A trading post was located nearby before 1630. Prouts Neck, site of Winslow HomerHomer, Winslow,
1836–1910, American landscape, marine, and genre painter. Homer was born in Boston, where he later worked as a lithographer and illustrator. In 1861 he was sent to the Civil War battlefront as correspondent for Harper's Weekly,
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The annual Lobster Dip at Old Orchard Beach in Maine has been rescheduled for the first time in 30 years.

Extreme cold to test New Year's revelers; some events canceled

Old Orchard Beach/Saco Adult and Community Education offers a variety of academic, vocational and enrichment classes to residents of Dayton, Old Orchard Beach, Saco and other surrounding communities in southern Maine.

Career Step Adds Old Orchard Beach as an Academic Partner

Dube and her husband David of Old Orchard Beach, ME, and Cheryl A.

Frank Hopkins

of Old Orchard Beach, Maine; two step-daughters, Linda Rossi and her husband, Ronald, of Worcester and Cynthia A.

Martha Roux-Boucher

The company includes offices in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, and Brentwood and Belmont, N.H., according to the company's website.

Casella waste expands into New England with purchase of Blow Brothers

Joseph Maraca Jr., of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, a member since February 1977.

In memory

This annual American Public Works Association conference--held in Peoria, Ill., April 30-May 3--offers public works crews like the team in Old Orchard Beach a range of tools help them improve their efforts to fight winter weather.

APWA North American Snow Conference

She explained that today in Saco and Biddeford, towns just south of Old Orchard Beach, over 30 per cent of the population is of French-Canadian origin: "They came to work in the textile mills of Biddeford and some set up permanent residence right here in Old Orchard." She paints a picture of a community that has incorporated into it the French-Canadian population: "St.

Are you going to Old Orchard again this year? Quebec's New England outpost

The MPO members are the University of Maine, Unity College, Old Orchard Beach School Dept., Colby College and York Hospital.

CONSTELLATION NEW ENERGY TO SUPPLY MAINE MADE RENEWABLE ENERGY

I even painted myself in a bathing suit with a lobster." Old Orchard Beach, PQ (1982) deals with, yes, lobsters.

WHERE MEMORIES BREATHE DARKNESS: UNDERNEATH LE CHAPEAU OF MICHELE COURNOYER

On the Southern Maine coast, Old Orchard Beach is one of the region's major attractions.

Travel: Eye to the Maine chance; Erica Davies has always wanted to see New England. Especially since she saw Michael Caine in The Cider House Rules. Oh, all right, off you go then .