I’m responding to Stephanie Wilson’s letter about the Royal River dams published in the Jan. 29 Northern Forecaster (“Yarmouth residents should vote on dam removal“). Is Ms. Wilson deliberately underinformed or deliberately misleading? Yarmouth Town Council voted 7-0 in favor of dam removal after 13 years of scientific study culminating in the Army Corp’s comprehensive […]
Bailey Arnold-Fuchs
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
Letter: Reimbursement cuts bad for quality of life
With the further cuts to reimbursement it is going to make therapist jobs harder to do their job effectively and with best quality of care. With cuts comes the need to see more patients in order to survive and with seeing more patients you will see the quality of care reduced. Which – I feel […]
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Falmouth updates residents on short-term rental ordinance, collects comments
Falmouth’s Assistant Town Manager Maggie Edson led the public forum, completing one of the Ordinance Committee’s steps in reviewing its policy, a priority outlined in the town’s 2024-2025 Work Plan.
Posted inScarborough Leader
Forum: Pre-K is coming and Scarborough needs to plan ahead
Do you remember being 5 years old? You may remember riding your bike or going to the beach. You may not remember how good you were at learning. I know a 5-year-old that could probably beat you at cribbage. I know another 5-year-old who has memorized every country, capital, and flag in the world. Five-year-olds […]
Posted inSouth Portland Sentry
Sentry Meetings: Feb. 7-14
Cape Elizabeth Mon. 2/10 3:45 p.m. School Board Negotiations Town Hall Mon. 2/10 7 p.m. Town Council Town Hall Tue. 2/11 6 p.m. School Board Public Forum Town Hall Tue. 2/11 7 p.m. Conservation Committee Town Hall Wed. 2/12 3:45 p.m. School Board Negotiations Town Hall Wed. 2/12 5:30 p.m. Community Services Community Center Thu. […]
Posted inScarborough Leader
Scarborough Meetings: Feb. 7-14
Mon. 2/10 6 p.m. School Building Advisory Zoom, Town Hall Tue. 2/11 5:30 p.m. Coastal Waters/Harbor Committee Zoom, Town Hall Tue. 2/11 6:30 p.m. Shellfish Conservation Town Hall Wed. 2/12 4:45 p.m. Appointments/Negotiations Zoom, Town Hall Wed. 2/12 5 p.m. Ordinance Committee Zoom, Town Hall Wed. 2/12 7 p.m. Zoning Board Town Hall Thu. 2/13 […]
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Northern Meetings: Feb. 6-13
Chebeague Island Fri. 2/7 2 p.m. Finance Committee Zoom Sat. 2/8 9 a.m. Select Board Town Hall Wed. 2/12 6 p.m. Select Board Town Hall Cumberland Mon. 2/10 6 p.m. Town Council Workshop Town Hall Mon. 2/10 7 p.m. Town Council Town Hall Thu. 2/13 6 p.m. Council/School Board/NY Select Board Town Hall Falmouth Thu. […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly
Arts Calendar: Feb. 6
Comedy Feb. 14 Valentine’s Dinner and a Show: 7 p.m., The Frog and Turtle, 3 Vallee Square, Westbrook. $100. 21-plus. facebook.com/thefrogandturtle Exhibits/Galleries Through Feb. 15 “Life Forms; Grow”: Jackie Brown, Leah Gauthier, Elaine K. Ng and Ashley Page, University of Southern Maine Art Gallery, 5 University Way, Gorham. usm.maine.edu/gallery Film Feb. 6 “Lioness, the Nicola […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly
Lakes Region Sportsman: After two years of no luck, Sebago Lake has ice once more
It was a long two winters prior. For the first time that I can recall, Sebago Lake, not even Jordan Bay, did not freeze. So, no ice fishing or ice fishing derby in 2023 or 2024. But that changed this year! With some bitter cold temperatures and finally a break in the wind, Jordan Bay […]
Posted inSouth Portland Sentry
A Window on the Past: Joseph Hunnewell and his Thornton Heights farm
We’ve recently looked at a few 19th and 20th century farmers in Thornton Heights – Fred Lund, Albert McLean, and John H. Johnson. Let’s go back a generation or two and take a look at the larger Hunnewell farm in the early to mid-1800s that once covered the side of Main Street where today you’d […]