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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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  • Unsung Hero: Nathan Smith, community advocate

    PORTLAND — The city's emergence over the last 25 years as one of the nation’s most vibrant and livable cities is no accident. Visionary leaders saw what needed to be done, and they did it. Nathan Smith, a commercial real estate attorney at Bernstein Shur, has been such a leader...

    David Treadwell • News •
    Monday, May 20, 2013 at 12:20 pm

  • Portland jetport prepares for the worst

    Emergency responders from Portland, South Portland and Gorham attend to "victims" – each with unique injuries and physical conditions – in the triage area of a disaster drill on Saturday at Portland International Jetport. The exercise also included emergency crews from Cumberland...

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    Monday, May 20, 2013 at 11:30 am

  • South Portland woman charged with victimizing elderly

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    Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 11:40 am

  • Healey, Martin get Scarborough posts

    SCARBOROUGH — Two appointments were made this month to fill town and agency positions previously held by long-tenured officials. Karen Martin, the acting executive director of the Scarborough Economic Development Corp., was appointed to the position permanently last week. On W...

    David Harry • News •
    Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 11:20 am

  • Scarborough, South Portland 'pilot communities' eyed for sustainable growth

    SCARBOROUGH — Dunstan Corner and Mill Creek in South Portland are about 10 miles apart, but clearly in the view of Sustain Southern Maine, a regional planning effort seeking to strengthen neig...

    David Harry • News •
    Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 11:10 am

  • Town Council votes against mini-golf in Cape Elizabeth

    CAPE ELIZABETH — The Town Council narrowly defeated sending the Planning Board a proposal to allow miniature golf as a permitted use in the town's Business A zoning district.  The 4-3 decision on Monday put the brakes on a plan by resident Carl Dittrich to build a nine-hole...

    Noah Hurowitz • News •
    Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 10:30 am

  • Scarborough Downs gambles again on racino at heart of new town center

    SCARBOROUGH — If Scarborough Downs has its way, residents will be voting again on whether to allow a racino in town. The Planning Board now has the language and maps necessary to rezone more than 450 acres owned by Scarborough Downs, passed along after a 6-0 Town Council vote Wednesd...

    David Harry • News •
    Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 10:20 am

  • Arbitrator reinstates Cumberland County sheriff's detective who filed whistleblower lawsuit

    SOUTH PORTLAND — An independent arbitrator has reinstated Gerard Brady, a city resident and deputy with the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office, as a detective in the department. Brady filed a union grievance against Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce, and a

    David Harry • News •
    Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 8:50 am
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