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News in Freeport

WCME returns to Brunswick airwaves promising local focus

BRUNSWICK — Radio industry veteran Jim Bleikamp revived WCME in October after several years of dead air, and said he hopes to make the station a profitable venture by focusing on community news. "We feel there will be a relationship between the extent to which we're involved in this ...

Dylan Martin • News •
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 1:20 pm

Public questions proposal for Freeport I-295 interchange

FREEPORT — A Maine Department of Transportation official and consultants got an earful Tuesday night at the first public hearing on a proposed new

Will Graff • News •
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 9:40 am

Northern Meetings: Nov. 1-7

Cumberland

Community •
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Freeport Police Beat: Nov. 1

Arrests 10/26 at 12:06 a.m. Maralee A Knight, 44, of Laurel Avenue, Auburn, was arrested on Wardtown Road by Officer Brandon Paxton on charges of unlawful possession of scheduled drugs and possession or transfer of burglar's tools. 10/28 at 1:05 a.m.

Police Beat •
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

School Notebook

Freeport Middle School seventh graders recently visited the Schoodic Education Adventure Program at Acadia National Park. With access to forest, wetland and shoreline ecosystems, students engaged in hands-on natural and cultural study at New England’s only national park. The three-day,...

Community •
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Occupy Maine sets focus on home foreclosures

PORTLAND — Members of Occupy Maine are focusing their efforts on housing foreclosures and providing support to Mainers struggling through the process.

Marena Blanchard • News •
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 12:20 pm

Ballot boxes fill in southern Maine as early voting wraps up

PORTLAND — Absentee ballots and early voters are keeping election clerks busy. But as the Nov. 1 deadline for early voting looms, some towns have seen declines in early voting compared to the last general election in 2008. The ballots remain sealed until Election Day, but in t...

David Harry • News •
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 11:50 am

Free dental care available for a day in Cumberland County

PORTLAND — Free dental care will be available Friday, Nov. 2, to adults who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford it, at various offices throughout Cumberland County, according to the Greater Portland Dental Society.

Marena Blanchard • News •
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 11:10 am

Businesses optimistic as Downeaster rolls into Freeport, Brunswick

FREEPORT — Business owners and residents are hoping the extension of Amtrak Downeaster service to Freeport and Brunswick on Thursday will be an economic boon, but no one really knows what to expect. “We haven't established any metric that can demonstrate success,” Sande U...

Will Graff • News •
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 9:50 am

Yarmouth schools, Pownal Elementary closed due to storm

YARMOUTH — Schools in Yarmouth are closed on Tuesday because of power outages at three of the town's four schools. In Regional School Unit 5, Pownal Elementary School is also closed due to a power outage. All other RSU 5 schools are open. Power outages cause by Hurricane Sandy...

• News •
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 9:10 am
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