This year’s Music on Main Street concert series is scheduled to begin on Thursday, July 8th and continue each Thursday through July 29th. Proceeds from the event will be used to support the followinglocal charities:

Mothers play an important role in the family and are valued and appreciated for

Online Banking, Bill Paying and Shopping: 10 Ways to Protect Your Money Internet commerce is fast and convenient, but as with the old-fashioned ways of doing business, it pays to take precautions

Bankers across the country are contributing to the relief effort in Haiti. ICBA posted a link to the American Red Cross on its web site and encourages members to visit:

Washington, D.C. – The FBI today reminds Internet users

US-CERT is aware of public reports of malicious code circulating via phishing email messages that appear to come from the Social Security Administration.

As bank failures are in the news, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is helping consumers understand why, as Chairman Sheila C. Bair has said, "there's no safer place in the world for their checking, savings or retirement money." The Fall 2009 issue of FDIC Consumer News gives facts and figures explaining the agency's financial resources run deep and that insured deposits are fully protected.

Aponik's "Waterlines" features Maine works in Oil starring some of Maine's most enjoyable coastal views.

Biddeford Savings handed out checks to eight different charities Friday morning, dividing the $3,519 in proceeds that Music on Main Street generated this summer.

Biddeford Savings announced this morning that it has awarded a $1000 scholarship to Arundel resident Katelynn Monk to help her with her business studies.

Biddeford Savings has good news for music fans: the bank has made sure the popular Music on Main Street concert series will take place again for the sixth straight summer, thanks to a new partnership it was able to put in place.

Biddeford Savings has hired Jay St. John as Vice President of Residential and Consumer Lending.

Cindy Convery has joined Biddeford Savings as a Commercial Loan Officer.

To enhance and improve the banking experience for its customers, Biddeford Savings has finished a major renovation of its main office branch at 254 Main Street. During the week of May 4th, the bank will throw open its doors and invite people to see all the changes.

A second grade class from the Eight Corners School in Scarborough recently visited the Scarborough branch of Biddeford Savings to redeem thousands of coins they have been collecting, all to benefit Pennies for Peace, an organization that helps create educational opportunities for needy kids in other countries.

Biddeford Savings announced today that it has hired Carri Brown as Chief Financial Officer.

Every May, without fail, the Animal Welfare Society (AWS) can count on an influx of more than a thousand homeless kittens, and Biddeford Savings plans to help the shelter deal with the annual kitten tsunami.