News in South Portland

Forecaster Forum: 'Out' in Maine: How people, times change

Weeks before graduation from my small-town high school in the spring of 1975, I was caught by a state trooper having sex with another man in the woods of Maine. We were minors, exploring our sexuality in the back seat of a Volkswagen bug. The implications surrounding this event changed my ...

Dana Marcoux • Opinion •

Monday, January 21, 2013 at 11:50 am

The View From Away: Online college education isn't college or education

A friend recently sent me an article predicting the imminent demise of college as we know it at the hands of the cheaper, more efficient Internet. My friend sees this trend toward online higher education as an opportunity for me to teach in the digital classroom. She may be right. God know...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •

Monday, January 21, 2013 at 11:10 am

The Universal Notebook: It's time to tax guns, ammo

Walking the dog the other day at Twin Brook Recreation Area in Cumberland, I was treated to the incessant bam-bam, bam-bam-bam, bam-bam, bam-bam-bam-bam, bam of someone targeting shooting somewhere off to the west. At least I hope they were just target shooting. You can’t discharge a...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •

Monday, January 21, 2013 at 10:30 am

Forecaster Forum: Reports that we are dying are greatly exaggerated

Back in 1897, James Ross Clemens was ill. Not-so-careful passing on of information resulted in word that Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, was dying in London. When an enterprising reporter decided to check on Twain before publishing his demise, the author resp...

Cheryl Wormley • Opinion •

Monday, January 21, 2013 at 10:20 am

Letter: Looking forward to Delogu's follow-up

I would like to thank Orland Delogu for his well-researched Policy Wonk column on corporate welfare in Maine ("Corporate welfare in Main...

• Opinion •

Monday, January 21, 2013 at 9:50 am

Southern Meetings: Jan. 18-24

South Portland Mon. 1/21 City offices closed Wed. 1/23 7 p.m. City Council CH Cape Elizabeth Mon. 1/21 Town offices closed Tue. 1/22 6:30 p.m. School Board Workshop TH Tue. 1/22 8...

• Community •

Friday, January 18, 2013

Karen Michelle Erskine, 35: Always the life of the party

SOUTH PORTLAND – Karen Michelle Erskine, 35, died unexpectedly Jan. 14 at her home. Erskine was born in Portland on May 10, 1977, a daughter of John William Wright and Donna Lucille Horner Wright. She attended the Small School and was a 1995 graduate of South Portland High Scho...

Obituaries •

Friday, January 18, 2013

Southern School Notebook

Local students make dean's list The following students have made the dean's list at their respective college or university: Nicholas Morris of Scarborough, Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School; Gable Lau of Scarborough, University of New Haven; and Karly Allen of Scarboroug...

Community •

Friday, January 18, 2013

South Portland park clubhouse soon to be razed

The days are numbered for the Wilkinson Park clubhouse on New York Avenue, as city officials and neighbors agreed on the need to tear the structure down. Future park plans are still to be determined and could be completed in phases.

David Harry • News •

Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 12:20 pm

South Portland Police Beat: Jan. 18

Arrests 1/5 at 10:34 a.m. Sarah Blanchard, 27, of South Portland, was arrested on John Roberts Road by Officer Scott Corbett on a charge of violating probation. 1/5 at 1:31 p.m. Alvin E. Shephard, 51, of Portland, was arrested on Broadway by Offic...

Police Beat •

Thursday, January 17, 2013