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Portland named best area for spring jobs

PORTLAND — The Portland region, including South Portland and Biddeford, will be the best metropolitan area in the nation for job growth this spring, Forbes magazine said last week. Forbes named the region No. 1, tied with

News •
Monday, March 18, 2013 at 10:40 am

The Universal Notebook: Don't tell Congress, but we're back

Even as a hopeless Congress and a misguided president drove the country off the fiscal cliff of totally unnecessary sequestration tax hikes and spending cuts, the U.S. economy was ignoring their incompetence and rebounding very nicely, thank you very much. The stock market greeted the bad ...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, March 18, 2013 at 9:20 am

Letter: Union shouldn't control insurance market

Kudos to the Yarmouth School Department for reaping major savings from a little-known law sponsored in 2011 by the LePage administration (LD 1326). The Forecaster recently reported that Yarmouth “hopes to save about $40,000 this year in health insurance costs.” Future savings could be...

Opinion •
Monday, March 18, 2013 at 8:40 am

Yarmouth avoids big changes in latest school budget proposal

YARMOUTH — Despite large losses in state revenues, the School Department expects to maintain services without drastic cuts to education or a dramatic budget increase.

Will Graff • News •
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 9:30 am

Chebeague ferry plan still worries Cousins residents

YARMOUTH — The private Chebeague Transportation Co. is moving closer to becoming a public transit district, despite meeting resistance from neighbors on Cousins Island. Some Cousins residents fear

Will Graff • News •
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 8:50 am

Cumberland, Falmouth, Yarmouth leaders move closer to natural gas deal

YARMOUTH — The town councils of Cumberland, Falmouth and Yarmouth – which last month endorsed a Summit Natural Gas proposal to extend service into their towns – expect at their upcoming meetings to vote on a memorandum of understanding with the company. The councils met a...

Alex Lear • News •
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 8:50 am

Chebeague Island Police Beat: March 14

Arrests No arrests or summonses were reported March 4-11.

Police Beat •
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Northern Meetings: March 14-20

Chebeague Island Tues.  3/19  6:30 p.m.  CISD School Committee  School Tues.  3/19  7:15 p.m.  CICA Housing Committee Meeting  PH Wed.  3/20  7:30 p.m.  CIC Board Meeting  PH Cumberlan...

Community •
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Lawrence Yates, 85

YARMOUTH — Lawrence Wilbur Yates, 85, of Yarmouth, died Sunday at home after a brief period of declining health. Yates was born May 25, 1927, in Huntington Park, Calif., the son of Katherine and Everett W. Yates. The family relocated to North Yarmouth when he was 3 and he attend...

Obituaries •
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Yarmouth Police Beat: March 14

Arrests 3/7 at 6:49 p.m. Erin R. Compton, 30, of Leighton Road, was arrested on Main Street by Officer Brian Andreasen on an outstanding warrant from another agency. Summonses 3/5 at 11:26 p.m. Melissa A. Bragdon, 32, of ...

Police Beat •
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
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