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  • Group seeks donations for South Portland hot tub

    SOUTH PORTLAND — With about $100,000 needed to buy a new hot tub at the Community Center, City Parks and Recreation Director Rick Towle announced last week that a new group will be seeking private donations. The SP Hot Tub Committee needs volunteers to raise money from businesse...

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    Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 10:10 am

  • Scarborough nonprofit seeks medical supplies

    SCARBOROUGH — Partners for World Health, at 7 Glasgow Road, is seeking donations of crutches, wheelchairs, commodes, walkers, knee immobilizers, dressing supplies and other medical supplies on Saturday, June 29, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The nonprofit group distributes medical devices gl...

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  • Topsham seeks input on downtown TIF

    TOPSHAM — The town is looking for public input on a proposed municipal downtown tax increment financing district. A  June 25 workshop at the Municipal Building will focus on the possible creation of a TIF to be anchored by Main Street. The forum will run from 6-8 p.m., with ligh...

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    Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 8:20 am

  • North Yarmouth selectmen tap Diffin as interim manager

    NORTH YARMOUTH — The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday night chose Marnie Diffin, the town's administrative assistant, as interim town manager for fiscal 2014. The vote was 4-1, with Paul Napolitano opposed. Neither he nor Diffin could be reached for comment by Wednesday morning. ...

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    Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 8:10 am

  • Abyssinian church in Portland listed among America's most-endangered historic places

    PORTLAND — The Abyssinian Meeting House, a 185-year-old landmark at 75 Newbury St., is being added to a list of the nation's 11 most endangered historic places. The National Trust for Historic Preservation included the meeting house on its 2013 list, which also includes Gay Head Ligh...

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    Wednesday, June 19, 2013

  • Frustrated co-chairman quits Cumberland-North Yarmouth school board

    CUMBERLAND — Citing ongoing frustration with the School Administrative District 51 Board of Directors, co-Chairman Jeff Porter said Tuesday that he will resign from the panel effective July 1. The Crossing Brook Road resident called the board "dysfunctional" and said he will not serv...

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    Wednesday, June 19, 2013

  • Ted Hellier, award-winning South Portland volunteer and coach, succumbs to cancer

    SOUTH PORTLAND — In a well-traveled and colorful life, three things stood out for Edward "Ted" Hellier. "If he wasn't talking about his kids, it was lacrosse and solar," Susan Hellier said Tuesday, one day after her husband died of cancer at age 57. After an itinerant youth th...

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    Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 3:40 pm

  • Sitting in with the band in Freeport

    Seven-month-old August Martelle sits in a guitar case while musicians Craig Hensley, left, and Jeff Raymond play a contra-style song at the Freeport Farmer's Market on Friday, June 14. Last week marked the first day of the season for the weekly market, which features 20 vendors from 1-5 p.m. ever...

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    Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 3:00 pm

  • Cumberland psychiatrist put on probation

    AUGUSTA — Charles Clemetson, a psychiatrist who works in Cumberland, had his medical license put on probation for five years after a June 11 state adjudicatory hearing. The Board of Licensure in Medicine, which held the hearing, found that Clemetson had been unprofessional in not mai...

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    Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 2:50 pm

  • Taste of the Nation at Freeport farm

    FREEPORT — Chefs from more than 30 restaurants will arrive in Freeport on Sunday to prepare food and raise money for a worthy cause. Taste of the Nation will will be held from 4:30-8 p.m. at Wolfe's Neck Farm, 184 Burnett Road. It is one of dozens of similar events being held th...

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    Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 2:50 pm
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