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Jennings: Injury prevents re-election bid in Cumberland

No contests in council, School Board elections CUMBERLAND — Barring any write-in campaigns, it is likely that everyone who submitted nomination papers for next month's Town Council and School Board elections will win. Councilors Mike Perfetti and Jon Jennings have chosen not...

Alex Lear • News •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 12:10 pm

N. Yarmouth budget could drop 9.5%, taxes could rise 4%

NORTH YARMOUTH — Next year's municipal budget could drop 9.5 percent, but reduced revenues could cause town taxes to increase 4 percent. Those numbers are based on a Board of Selectmen recommendation to spend $2.4 million in fiscal 2014, an approximately $253,000 reduction from the c...

Alex Lear • News •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 11:50 am

3 candidates for 2 seats on North Yarmouth Board of Selectmen

NORTH YARMOUTH — Three candidates filed papers for election to the Board of Selectmen. There are two seats on the June ballot: Chairman Steve Palmer of Mountfort Road is running for another term, while fellow Selectman Rob Wood has chosen not to seek another term. Clark Whitti...

News •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 11:30 am

Portland business brings composting to the masses

PORTLAND — Tyler Frank believes garbage bags may someday be obsolete. The Vesper Street resident is one of the founders of Garbage to Garden, a community-based curbside composting service that was launche...

William Hall • News •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 11:00 am

Youth Court in Portland, Yarmouth aims to repair wrongs, not punish kids

YARMOUTH — A program in Maine is helping first-time juvenile offenders avoid the traditional justice system and repair any harm they've done to the community. The program, called Youth Court, is appearing around the country in an effort to provide what is known as "restorative" ...

Amber Cronin • News •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 8:10 am

Community Calendar: May 1

Greater Portland Benefits Friday 5/3 Achieve a Vision Beyond Your Sight, 7 p.m., Hannaford Lecture Hall, 88 Bedford St., Portland, 475-7148, $10 suggested donation. Saturday 5/4

Community •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

People and Business

Recognition The Associated General Contractors of America awarded Freeport-based CPM Constructors with a 2013 Build America Award for new municipal and utility construction at AGC’s 94th annual convention March 7 in Palm Springs, Calif. CPM won for its construction o...

Community •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Arts Calendar, May 1-14

Greater Portland Books & Authors Wednesday 5/1 William Barry, author of "Maine: The Wilder Half of New England," 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700, free.

Lifestyle •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Out & About: Maia Sharp, Big Sandy top the bill

May arrives this week with a plethora of sunshine and flowers, plus an equal bounty of arts and entertainment. A superb singer-songwriter and a leading Americana-rockabilly band are two of the top offerings at Portland’s One Longfellow Square. First up is singer-songwriter Maia Sharp...

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
Monday, April 29, 2013 at 12:30 pm

The Universal Notebook: It's nobody's fault but our own

As America attempts to come to terms with health-care reform, the national debt, immigration reform, climate change and the epidemic of gun violence, the fault lines that threaten a more perfect union are becoming pretty darn obvious. They run along cultural divides, geographic borders, philosoph...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, April 29, 2013 at 11:10 am
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