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Arts Calendar Jan. 16-29

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Musica de Filia, auditions for several all-female choirs, Jan. 2-22, 550 Forest Ave., Portland, 807-2158. Books & Authors Friday 1/18

Lifestyle •
Monday, January 14, 2013 at 12:50 pm

Abby's Road: Gone skating

Parenting was hard even for Albert Einstein. I mean, he is the man who defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Clearly, he had that breakthrough after commanding “indoor voices!” and hearing no reduction in volume. I don't underst...

Abby Diaz • Opinion •
Monday, January 14, 2013 at 10:20 am

The Universal Notebook: The governor flunketh

Gov. Paul LePage has nothing but contempt for public education, public school teachers and administrators and public school students. A man possessed of the worst combination of ignorance and arrogance, he seems to have no idea of the damage he does every time he opens his big mouth and badmouths...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, January 14, 2013 at 10:10 am

Southern Meetings: Jan. 11-17

Cape Elizabeth Wed.    1/16    6:30 p.m.    Community Services Adv. Comm.    CECC Scarborough Mon.    1/14    6 p.m.    Pest Management Committee    MB

• Community •
Friday, January 11, 2013

Helen M. Arsenault, 84: Loved to travel and play bridge

SCARBOROUGH — Helen M. Arsenault, 84, died Jan. 6 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough with her family by her side. Arsenault was born Oct. 12, 1928, in Portland, a daughter of James and Diana Tanguay Mills. She was a 1947 graduate of South Portland High School, wher...

Obituaries •
Friday, January 11, 2013

Everyone underway as winter season resumes

The new year has brought action for everyone, in all sports. Local athletes and teams continue to set the bar with plenty of challenges to come. Here's a glimpse: Boys' basketball The cream is rising to the top on the hardwood and so far on the boys' side, South Port...

Michael Hoffer • Sports •
Friday, January 11, 2013

Cost of Shore Road path more than 10% over Cape Elizabeth budget

CAPE ELIZABETH — The town spent about $165,000 more than expected for construction of the Shore Road path. The largest cost overrun was for traffic flaggers. Public Works Director Bob Malley said the project went over its $1 million budget in several areas. He said there was a...

Will Graff • News •
Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 10:30 am

Scarborough Police Beat: Jan. 11

Arrests 12/31 at 7:15 p.m. Kayla L. Warren, 30, of Wilmont Street, Portland, was arrested on Gallery Boulevard by Officer Andrew Flynn on charges of unlawful possession of scheduled drugs, theft by unauthorized taking, refusing to submit to arrest or detention and violat...

Police Beat •
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Cape Elizabeth Police Beat: Jan. 11

Arrests 1/2 at 8:35 a.m. Allan L. Martin, 73, of Pulpit Rock Road, was arrested on Pulpit Rock Road by Officer Ben Davis on a warrant. 1/6 at 6:14 p.m. Clare Smith, 67, of Sawyer Road, was arrested on Spurwink Avenue by Officer Jeffrey Gaudette on...

Police Beat •
Thursday, January 10, 2013

New rules put noise-makers on notice in Cape Elizabeth

CAPE ELIZABETH — The Town Council tied up the last loose end in the short-term rental saga Monday night, putting teeth into the rules governing excessive noise. The council also approved an ordinance amendment that allows larger signs for some businesses operating in residential zone...

Will Graff • News •
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 3:10 pm
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