News in Scarborough/Cape Elizabeth

Fort Williams vendor license still available

CAPE ELIZABETH — The fourth vendor permit at Fort Williams Park may go unfilled this year. No one applied for the permit when the town first advertised it in March, and the response was the same when the town re-posted the advertisement in April. Three other vendor licenses have been...

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 3:50 pm

Cape Elizabeth budget, taxes increase 3.5%

CAPE ELIZABETH — The Town Council adopted a combined $33.2 million municipal, school and community services budget Monday night, and sent the school budget to a May 14 referendum. The $22.5 million school budget for fiscal 2014 was pressured by revenue losses and added costs from the...

Will Graff • News •

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 3:40 pm

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

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...

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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

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

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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

The View From Away: An urge for revenge in the land of the loonie

My coworkers on this TV show, who are almost exclusively Canadian, have been friendly and welcoming. So have the other people I have run across in Toronto, for the most part. One exception occurred at a suburban movie theater, where a woman wheeled on me and said I was standing too close to her i...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •

Monday, April 29, 2013 at 10:50 am

Southern School Notebook: April 26

South Portland native picked for undergraduate research program South Portland native Johnny Joseph has been selected to participate in Stonehill College's Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience program. A total of 50 Stonehill students will work this summer with 32 faculty members ...

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Friday, April 26, 2013