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Falmouth changes Transfer Station charges

FALMOUTH — Beginning Monday, July 20, vehicle permit stickers for the Transfer Station will cost $5 annually and disposal tags will cost $5 each. Permits purchased this year will be valid through 2010. Permits purchased within the past two years will be valid through the end of 20...

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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Yarmouth school garden proves fertile for winner of presidential teaching award

YARMOUTH — Kimberly Spencer, a looping second- and third-grade teacher at Yarmouth Elementary School, used the school district garden as a way to teach her students about math. Last week, she learned that her creativity landed her the 2009 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Scie...

Amy Anderson • News •
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Cape Elizabeth farmers put rubber to the road with farm stand on a bus

CAPE ELIZABETH — Penny Jordan, co-owner of Jordan's Farm, likes to joke that her farm is going "back to the future" – on a renovated school bus. In an office behind her farm store on Wells Road, she has a decades-old photo of a mobile farm stand from which another Cap...

Sarah Trent • News •
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Cape Elizabeth council will make traffic light decision in August

CAPE ELIZABETH — Town councilors on Monday said they will decide in August whether to put a traffic light at the intersection of Route 77, Shore and Scott Dyer roads. The Town Council last November postponed the decision until May, and in the meantime approved funding for passive ...

Sarah Trent • News •
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Sunday is Falmouth Library Sundae

FALMOUTH – This Sunday's Library Sundae promises to be a sweet treat for young and old. Between 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. on July 19, the Falmouth Memorial Library will host a summer party with antique cars and trucks, live music by Doc's Banjo Band and valve cover races, a small vehic...

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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Scholarship, open house honor dance teacher

FALMOUTH — The Maine State Ballet will award a tuition scholarship for a tap dance student in honor of long-time tap instructor Peggy Etter. The studio will also recognize Etter's more than 50 years of service with an open house celebration and scholarship benefit on Saturday, July 18. ...

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Thursday, July 16, 2009
City Council health-care benefit may go to South Portland voters

SOUTH PORTLAND — The City Council is poised to put the future of their health-care insurance to voters this November. The council spent more than an hour in a workshop Monday night debating the insurance benefit, which costs about $70,000 to cover six of the seven councilors. 2

Randy Billings • News •
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Embattled South Portland official slated to return to work Thursday; city likely to pay legal fees

SOUTH PORTLAND — The director of public works and cultural services is scheduled to returned to work at the Community Center on Thursday, July 16. City Manager Jim Gailey said in a press release on Tuesday that his decision to reinstate Dana Anderson, who has been on paid adminis...

Randy Billings • News •
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Brunswick development 'hangs in the balance' with Amtrak Downeaster

BRUNSWICK — After years of planning and debate, the $23.5 million Maine Street Station project is showing Brunswick residents tangible results. The site, which constitutes the town's last available acreage for infill development, has been a hive of activity all summer. Two of its ...

Steve Mistler • News •
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Bath trail offers educational fun to young hikers

BATH — The Born Learning Trail not only wants you to stop and smell the roses, but to touch, observe and discuss them as well. Located next to the Bath Area Family YMCA facility at 303 Centre St., the trail is meant to help children get a head start on language and literacy devel...

Alex Lear • News •
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 11:40 am