News in Yarmouth/Chebeague Island

The Universal Notebook: LePage, Bowen both get F's

Did anyone ever benefit from being publicly identified as a total failure? I don’t think so. But that’s what Gov. Paul LePage and education Commissioner Stephen Bowen have done by releasing a completely bogus Maine School Performance Grading System report card that ranks some 600 publ...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •

Monday, May 6, 2013 at 12:30 pm

Policy Wonk: Concrete alternatives to the LePage budget

As this column was about to go to press, a bi-partisan group of legislators led by Sen. Richard Woodbury, U-Yarmouth, released a bold proposal to reform state taxes and tax expenditures. There is a lot to like in the bi-partisan reforms, but some provisions will almost certai...

Orlando Delogu • Opinion •

Monday, May 6, 2013 at 10:50 am

Abby's Road: My son explains it all

My son is almost 19 months old. Recently, he was trying to bite my kneecap as I bent down to put away some folded laundry. I turned to him and I said: “Son, what is up?” This was his answer: “What is up? You are up. The stairs are up. The kitchen stools are up. I l...

• Opinion •

Monday, May 6, 2013 at 10:20 am

Short Relief: Portland should tap street-corner labor pool

I was relatively lucky to graduate from law school in 1986. The U.S. economy and employment rates were growing. Law firms were expanding and hiring, and increasing the opportunities for all law graduates. I took a job working for the federal government in Washington, D.C. By the early 1990...

Halsey Frank • Opinion •

Monday, May 6, 2013 at 10:00 am

Letter: State should support schools, not flunk them

Like other Yarmouth residents, I was not surprised by the straight-A grades the Maine Department of Education bestowed on our schools. My daughter was the beneficiary of a challenging, caring education in our school system, and my stints as a substitute teacher have given me even more reason to c...

• Opinion •

Monday, May 6, 2013 at 9:20 am

Despite good grades, some school chiefs criticize state report card

FREEPORT — The Falmouth, Yarmouth and Chebeague Island school departments, Regional School Unit 5, and School Administrative District 51 generally received high marks in the first statewide report card for elementary and high schools. The grades from the Department of Education were ...

Will Graff • News •

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 1:20 pm

Yarmouth school chief choice expected soon

YARMOUTH — The School Superintendent Search Committee has presented finalists to the School Committee after narrowing down the field from about 20 applicants. Search Committee Chairwoman and School Committee member Margaret Groban said site visits from the finalists were expected thi...

News •

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 7:50 am

Northern School Notebook: May 2

Falmouth students are Presidential Scholar semifinalists Falmouth High School seniors Caroline Levy and Emma Sapat were selected as two of the approximately 550 semifinalists to advance to the final round of the 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholars competition. Each year, up to...

Community •

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Arthur Emile Frederiksen, 85: Dedicated to Falmouth

FALMOUTH – Arthur Emile Frederiksen, 85, died April 24 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough after a brief illness. Frederiksen was born May 13, 1927 in Portland, the fourth son of Oscar and Agnes Fredriksen. He grew up in Portland, attending Saint Dominic's School. In his...

Obituaries •

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Yarmouth Police Beat: May 2

Arrests 4/28 at 1:37 p.m. Dennis R. Junkins, 22, of Baywood Lane, was arrested on Baywood Lane by Officer Kevin Pedersen on a charge of aggravated assault. Summonses 4/25 at 2:42 p.m. Nathanial A. Veilleux, 25, of Hamel Street, Lewiston, ...

Police Beat •

Wednesday, May 1, 2013