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Brunswick could be master tenant of train station

Council to decide if town should negotiate with developer BRUNSWICK — The town could end up holding the keys to the 2,100-square-foot train station and welcome center at the $23 million Maine Street Station project. Brunswick is already a partner in the projec...

Steve Mistler • News •
Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 8:59 am
Maine Mall tax appeal delayed

SOUTH PORTLAND — An administrative hearing scheduled for April 8 in Augusta for the owners of the Maine Mall to appeal their 2006 property tax bill has been delayed. Attorneys for the mall's owners, General Growth Properties, and the city are working to rescheduled the hearing, wh...

Randy Billings • News •
Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 8:55 am
Bath considers skatepark alternatives

BATH — One of the city's social hubs for young people faces a variety of fates, including renovation or construction of a new building. City Manager Bill Giroux presented the City Council with several alternatives for the Bath Youth Meetinghouse and Skatepark on Wednesday. Public...

Alex Lear • News •
Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 7:51 am
Design chosen for South Portland plane crash memorial

Group begins fundraising efforts SOUTH PORTLAND — A group of residents hoping to build a memorial to the state's biggest aviation disaster announced it has chosen a design and will begin fundraising. The memorial will commemorate a 1944 plane crash in the Redbank nei...

Randy Billings • News •
Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 5:39 am
B2B sign-up woes part of 'industry-wide phenomenon'

CAPE ELIZABETH — A few hundred complaints about this year's TD Banknorth Beach to Beacon 10K race registration have been resolved, according to race President David Weatherbie. The online registration on March 15 filled up in a record 105 minutes, meaning some runners trying to r...

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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Cumberland's vernal pools to be tested this month

CUMBERLAND — Town officials and volunteers this month will begin testing 250 areas identified earlier this year as potential vernal pools. The Department of Environmental Protection began regulating significant vernal pools and the areas surrounding them in 2007. Unlike neighbori...

Sarah Trent • News •
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 3:11 pm
SAD 75: State policy threatens student privacy

TOPSHAM — The School Administrative District 75 Board of Directors is criticizing a requirement to report incidences of prohibited student behavior to the state. Directors said they will try to enlist support from other school districts willing to resist providing Augusta with t...

Alex Lear • News •
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Bowdoin marks 100th anniversary of Peary's expedition

BRUNSWICK — While controversy hovered over Robert E. Peary's 1909 trip to the North Pole, his alma mater is planning to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his Arctic quest. Beginning on Friday, April 3, Bowdoin College will hold a series of events marking Peary's milestone, an...

Steve Mistler • News •
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Communities share development visions with Brunswick

BRUNSWICK — The Town Council's search for a unified vision for economic development continued Monday, as did its quest to ease longstanding conflicts over the Brunswick Economic Development Corp., the quasi-governmental agency that advises the town on development. It remains to be...

Steve Mistler • News •
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Bowdoin students' Facebook 'detox' brings clarity

BRUNSWICK — All 14 of Dhiraj Murthy's students have pages on Facebook, the popular social networking Web site that may have replaced the mini-refrigerator as the No. 1 necessity for 18- to 24-year-olds. For that reason Murthy, an associate professor of sociology at Bowdoin Colleg...

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Wednesday, April 1, 2009