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News in Yarmouth/Chebeague Island

Tax hike, wharf repairs await Chebeague Island Town Meeting

CHEBEAGUE ISLAND — Voters will decide on a proposed budget of $2.9 million Saturday at Town Meeting, including whether to set aside an additional $50,000 for repairs to Stone Wharf. The proposed fiscal 2014 budget represents a 0.5 percent increase over this year's spending, but will ...

Ben McCanna • News •
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 2:40 pm

Yarmouth turf field replacement to start next week

YARMOUTH — Construction of a new artificial turf field at Yarmouth High School, replacing one installed in 2001, is due to start June 10. The project is funded by a $1.5 million bond, which voters approved last November. The field, used by high school sports teams and the community, ...

Alex Lear • News •
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 9:50 am

Special day for Special Olympics in Yarmouth

Eighth-grade students at Frank H. Harrison Middle School in Yarmouth turn a parachute to the delight of two Special Olympians on May 31 during the first Young Athletes Festival conducted by Special Olympics Maine for children ages 2 1/2 to 8 who have intellectual disabilities or autism.

• News •
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 8:50 am

People and Business

Recognition South Portland resident Ted Hellier was named Maine’s Citizen Volunteer of the Year at the annual Maine Parks and Recreation Association conference held April 9. Hellier has volunteered as a coach, official, trainer, and coordinator in numerous South Portland Parks and ...

Community •
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Community Calendar: June 5-18

Greater Portland Benefits Tuesday 6/11 Benefit for CEHS Safe Passage Team, CEHS will receive a portion of the sale from every flatbread purchased that day, Flatbread Company, 72 Commercial St., Portland, 232-...

Community •
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 3:10 pm

Cumberland County sheriff wins 'food fight' with manager

PORTLAND — Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce successfully fought back a proposal by County Manager Peter Crichton to consider hiring a private company to take over the kitchen at the Cumberland County Jail. In an appearance before the county’s five-member Board of Commissio...

Ted Cohen • News •
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 1:00 pm

Unsung Hero: Theresa Saxton, doing the Iron Man for mom

YARMOUTH — Why would any sane soul choose to do the Iron Man Triathlon, an event consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a 26.2-mile (full marathon) run? More to the point, why would someone choose to do it solo, without hundreds of fellow competitors from whom to dra...

David Treadwell • News •
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 12:10 pm

The Universal Notebook: The decline of church, a sermonette

This little reflection on the future of church (mine, yours and many others) in an age of declining church membership is a revised version of a sermonette I delivered as part of the June 2 Laity Sunday service at First Parish Church, United Church of Christ, Yarmouth. What I did not tell m...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 10:40 am

Abby's Road: Do not expose to heat

I do not do well in heat. After prolonged exposure to temperatures north of, say, 78 degrees, I melt into a barely contained puddle. It is one of the characteristics I have most in common with an ice cube. This tendency worked especially against me when I lived in large cities. Commuting t...

Abby Diaz • Opinion •
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 10:20 am

Short Relief: Who's fooling who on MaineCare?

There is nothing unreasonable about Maine paying its hospital debt independent of expanding MaineCare. MaineCare is Maine’s version of Medicaid. It provides health care to low-income persons. It is jointly funded by the state and federal governments. Maine hospitals are owed $...

Halsey Frank • Opinion •
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 10:10 am
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