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  • RSU 1 budget headed to 1st of 2 public votes

    BATH — Next year's Regional School Unit 1 budget goes to the first of two district-wide votes Tuesday, May 28. The $27.7 million spending plan, unanimously approved by the RSU 1 Board of Directors on May 6, will increase 6.66 percent over the current year if approved both times. ...

    Alex Lear • News •
    Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 3:20 pm

  • Taking aim at cancer in Brunswick

    Participants in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life at Brunswick High School parade around the school track on Friday, May 17, showing their determination to wipe out cancer. The overnight fundraiser was filled with honors for cancer victims and caregivers, and helped mark the society's 10...

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    Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 3:00 pm
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  • Green season

    Warmer weather means the growing season is here, which keeps Pat Leddy busy organizing and caring for plants in one of the greenhouses at Flaherty's Family Farm in Scarborough. (Rich Obrey photo)

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    Friday, April 17, 2009 at 12:24 pm

  • Plan would offer recycling to 11 South Portland condo, apartment complexes

    SOUTH PORTLAND — The City Council at a workshop Monday night reviewed a plan that would restore recycling services to 11 condominium and apartment complexes that had the service before it was privatized. The plan, however, does nothing to expand recycling to more than 800 other c...

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    Friday, April 17, 2009 at 11:35 am

  • South Portland Housing Authority picks new director

    SOUTH PORTLAND — Michael G. Hulsey has been chosen as the South Portland Housing Authority's new executive director. The appointment comes at a time when housing services are increasingly in demand because of the economic downturn and as the agency looks to build new affordable h...

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    Friday, April 17, 2009 at 9:07 am

  • Supt.: Closing Harpswell school minimally lengthens bus routes

    HARPSWELL — If the West Harpswell School is closed, alternate bus routes taking those students to the Harpswell Islands School would take only about five to six minutes longer than the current longest trip, School Administrative District 75 Superintendent Mike Wilhelm said this week. ...

    Alex Lear • News •
    Friday, April 17, 2009 at 8:50 am

  • 46 acres to be added to Scarborough Marsh preserve

    SCARBOROUGH — A 46-acre piece of land near the Dunstan River will be added to the 3,200-acre Scarborough Marsh Wildlife Management Area. The Manson Libby Road property was purchased Wednesday from the Gervais Family of Scarborough, who has owned and maintained the land as a worki...

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    Friday, April 17, 2009 at 7:42 am

  • Committee promises adjustments in Scarborough budget

    SCARBOROUGH — The Town Council's Finance Committee had a chilly response to the School Department's presentation last week in its first examination of the fiscal 2010 budget. In a full-day meeting on April 10, Chairman Shawn Babine,  Ron Ahlquist and Richard Sullivan went throug...

    Peggy Roberts • News •
    Friday, April 17, 2009 at 7:10 am

  • Falmouth cook stirs kitchen hobby into gold

    FALMOUTH — Though she calls herself "a bit of a rookie" when it comes to cooking contests, Mountain Road resident Jessie Grearson has already proven herself a serious contender. In just two years, Grearson has won or placed in more than half a dozen contests, earning se...

    Peggy Roberts • News •
    Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 6:55 pm

  • Legislature pushes Harpswell border bill to committee

    Public hearing yet to be scheduled HARPSWELL — A bill asking the state to revisit a 1998 border agreement between Harpswell and Brunswick was referred to a committee by the state Legislature last week. But so far that committee has yet to schedule a public hearing on the m...

    Steve Mistler • News •
    Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 1:34 pm
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