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Hearing set on Scarborough legislator's bill allowing lawsuits for fetus deaths

SCARBOROUGH — A state lawmaker's bill to allow "the estates of unborn viable fetuses" to sue for wrongful death is scheduled for a public hearing next week in Augusta. Republican Rep. Amy Volk, R-Scarborough, on Monday said her bill is an effort to bring Maine civil law into line wit...

David Harry • News •
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 2:40 pm

Mercury symposium at Scarborough High School

SCARBOROUGH — A year of research into the local presence of mercury will be on display from 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Friday, May 17, at Scarborough High School. The Student Mercury Science Research Symposium will be held in the Winslow Homer Arts Center. Honors environmental science stu...

News •
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 2:30 pm

Scarborough School Board member to resign

SCARBOROUGH — Citing health reasons, first-term School Board member Aymie Hardesty said she will resign this week, about six months before the completion of the term she won in 2010. "I just don't feel like I can give my all," Hardesty said Tuesday. "I really love this community and ...

David Harry • News •
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 12:00 pm

Cape collects electronic, hazardous waste

CAPE ELIZABETH — Residents who want to get rid of hazardous and electronic waste can drop items off for free from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Public Works building on Cooper Drive. The list of accepted materials can be found

News •
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 11:10 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

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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