ABOUT | ME – LESSONS IN MEDIOCRITY

A Biddeford Boy Having Fun

My name is Randy Seaver, and I am the editor and founder of the Biddeford Gazette, a non-profit digital news organization that exclusively covers my hometown of Biddeford, a small community where my grandfather taught English at Biddeford High School.

For more than 30 years, I have been embedded in this community like a tick — as a reporter, as a fifth-generation native son and .as a local political junkie and operative. MORE | MY BIDDEFORD CONNECTION

I have been watching and covering Biddeford news on and off for more than 30 years, including my work as a reporter and editor for the Biddeford-Saco-OOB Courier (1997-2006); as a freelance reporter for Saco Bay News (2023-2024) and as an independent blogger (2007-2024) right up until launching the Gazette in Nov. 2024.

I ran Alan Casavant’s first mayoral campaign in 2011, and I played a significant role in the closure of the controversial MERC trash incinerator. My wife was elected to two terms as an at-large city councilor and served two consecutive terms on the Biddeford School Committee after being appointed to the city’s Policy Committee.

I am a mental health consumer and an outspoken advocate for those who also struggle with a mental illness. Before my career in journalism, I bounced around the country as an industrial tool salesman and as a pre-novitiate candidate with the Sacred Heart Fathers & Brothers.

I LOVE well-crafted beer, the movie Jaws, camping, traditional jazz music and spending time with my wife and our dogs, Sasha and Moose. I HATE baked beans, Kevin Costner and the Hallmark Channel.