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News in Bath/Topsham/Harpswell

Harpswell awards contract to design EMS garage

HARPSWELL — The town is a step closer to building a two-bay garage that will house its emergency "interceptor" vehicle. The Board of Selectmen unanimously voted Dec. 13 for a $11,400 design contract with Normand Associates Architects. Town Administrator Krista Eiane said the d...

Dylan Martin • News •
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 9:40 am

Bath-area school board OKs new cost-sharing plan

BATH — The Regional School Unit 1 Board of Directors unanimously approved a new cost-sharing formula Monday that could go into effect next year. The change must be approved by a district-wide referendum, Superintendent Patrick Manuel said, and a date for that vote has yet to be ...

Alex Lear • News •
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 8:10 am

Bad behavior: Workplace settlements cost Maine $1.9M

HALLOWELL — One corrections officer spread a false rumor that the new female officer at the state prison in South Windham was a stripper.

John Christie, Matt Drange and Naomi Schalit, Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting • News •
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Arts Calendar: Dec. 19-30

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Portland Children's Festival is seeking entries to the Young Filmmakers Contest, April 4-7, 2013, open to students in kindergarten through high school from Portland and surrounding comm...

Lifestyle •
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Community Calendar: Dec. 19-30

Greater Portland Benefits Greely Hockey Boosters, raffle fundraiser, drawing Jan.1 at Dudley Cup Tournament, tickets $10 each or 3 for $20, 831-9014. Bulletin Board

Community •
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

People and Business

Stepping out to end hunger

Community •
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Editor's Notebook: '... Don't worry, it'll change'

"If you're in a bad situation," someone once said, "don't worry, it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry, it'll change." That sense of constant change sums up the past year at The Forecaster, where we've welcomed several new staffers – William Hall, Will Graff, Maren...

Mo Mehlsak • Opinion •
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 12:10 pm

Out & About: ‘Phyzgig,' ‘Beauty and the Beast’ top choices

As the Christmas-New Year holiday period approaches, most performing artists do what everyone else does: Head home and take a break with the family. There’s a marked slowdown in the performing arts between Christmas and late January. So “Out & About” takes its annual ...

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 11:30 am

Unsung Hero: Nancy Marshall of Cape Elizabeth, giving lasting gifts

CAPE ELIZABETH — Shortly after Nancy Marshall was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer in 1997, her oncologist told her, “There will come a time when you will serve as an example to other people who are struggling with cancer.” His words proved most prophetic. But fi...

David Treadwell • News •
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 10:40 am

The Universal Notebook: Have yourself a cool Christmas

The Christmas gifts of my childhood in the 1950s are lost memories, but I vividly recall the Christmas gifts of my adolescence in the early 1960s because they were invariably the things every teen and pre-teen needed to be cool. Just how coolness managed to be communicated to the youth of ...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 10:10 am
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