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News in Cumberland/North Yarmouth

Did security trump policy, transparency in SAD 51?

School Board refuses to pay for new equipment CUMBERLAND — After a lengthy and often heated discussion Monday about a new security system purchased for School Administrative District 51, the School Board deadlocked over the nearly $166,000 equipment lease/purchase. The 4-4 v...

Alex Lear • News •
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

North Yarmouth Police Beat: May 9

Arrests No arrests or summonses were reported from April 30 to May 6. Fire calls 4/30 at 4 p.m. Alarm activation on Mountfort Road. EMS North Yarmouth emergency medical services did not respond to any calls from April 30 to May 6.

Police Beat •
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

North Yarmouth selectmen candidates agree on major issues

NORTH YARMOUTH — Incumbent Steven Palmer must defeat one of two challengers – Woodfin Brewer, or former Selectman Clark Whittier – to win a second term on the Board of Selectmen. With Selectman Robert Wood not running again, two board seats are up for grabs on June 11.

Alex Lear • News •
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 10:30 am

People and Business

Recognition The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine honored Portland resident and Forecaster columnist Orlando Delogu with the 25th annual Justice Louis Scolnik Award. In a distinguished career at the University of Maine School of Law spanning over 47 years, Delogu has been a pa...

Community •
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Arts Calendar: May 8

Greater Portland Books & Authors Friday 5/10 Barbara Damrosch: “The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook,” 12 p.m., Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth, 781-23...

Lifestyle •
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Unsung Heroes: Scarborough Alzheimer's caregivers Tim Osgood, Kelly Labbe

SCARBOROUGH — Chances are you know someone with Alzheimer's disease. More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, and one in eight older Americans has the disease. Indeed, Alzheimer’s is the only cause of death among the top 10 in the U.S. that canno...

David Treadwell • News •
Monday, May 6, 2013 at 2:40 pm

Rosemary Kimball, 91

YARMOUTH — Rosemary Sclater Kimball, 91, died peacefully April 24, surrounded by her “care bears” at Bay Square Senior Living Community, in Yarmouth. She was born Feb. 13, 1922, to Ida Hannaford Sclater and Ivanhoe Sclater in Pittsfield, Mass. She attended local scho...

Obituaries •
Monday, May 6, 2013 at 1:10 pm

Out & About: 'The Last Romance' is outstanding dramatic-comedy

The recent wave of superb spring weather underscored the fact that Maine’s summertime is quickly approaching. The same can be said for the arts and entertainment calendar as the fall-winter-spring seasons wrap up for most producers and presenters, clearing the way for summer. It&rsqu...

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
Monday, May 6, 2013 at 1:00 pm

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
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