The American Rescue Plan will provide nearly $11 million to the the Maine Office of Tourism.
Dina Mendros
Dina is Executive Editor for the Biddeford-Saco-OOB Courier, the Kennebunk Post, the Scarborough Leader and the South Portland-Cape Elizabeth Sentry. She is a born and bred Mainer living in Saco.
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New Ventures Maine announces tuition-free classes for December and January
New Ventures Maine will hold tuition-free online workshops and classes for December and January that are designed to help people in Maine start a business, build a career, and manage money. The full class schedule is growing with new class offerings for January and is accessible online at bit.ly/NVMEClasses. December and January classes include: • […]
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Whether it’s a pandemic-related illness, general health and wellbeing, or a medical emergency, everyone needs to have access to health care to live full and sustaining lives. When we are healthy and taken care of, we can go to work, raise our children, support our families and have some fun – when time allows for […]
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Ruralist Lament: COP Out 26
“The essential problem is not that we are tapping the wrong energy sources (though we are), or that we are wasteful and inefficient (though we are), but that we are overpowered and we are overpowering nature.” Richard Heinberg “Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare/ The lone and level […]
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Obituary: Jeanne Demers
AUBURN — Jeanne (Petrin) Demers died peacefully at home on Nov. 16, 2021. Jeanne was born on March 8, 1949, in Biddeford, Maine, to Lucien and Therese Petrin. She was the oldest of three children. She attended Catholic schools in Biddeford and continued on to study mathematics and French at St. Francis College in Biddeford. […]
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AMVETS in Biddeford to host free Thanksgiving luncheon
BIDDEFORD — The AMVETS, Post one are hosting a free meal on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 25 at 141 Alfred St. in Biddeford. All are invited to the free meal; donations are accepted. No advance registration is required.
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With utility-scale solar zoning approved, projects are moving forward in Scarborough
The Planning Board is scheduled to review several proposals Monday.
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Scarborough U12 girls D1 and U13bboys D2 win state soccer championships
The Scarborough U12 girls D1 and the Scarborough U13 boys D soccer teams won their respective State Championship games in Freeport on Sunday, Nov. 7 in the SoccerMaine Fall Classic League. Their club is very proud of their hard work and sportsmanship all season long, according to a press release by the Scarborough Soccer Club. […]
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Saving Scarborough’s last district school
Before there were big yellow school busses, school children in Scarborough for the most part walked to school. To keep the distances from their homes doable, back in the 1800s Scarborough had over a dozen one-room district schools spread throughout the town. A single teacher taught the elementary grades to each neighborhood’s school children. All […]
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Central Maine Power improves power reliability in Scarborough
The Dunstan-area substation is complete.