Recently the evening news reported that a local contractor was overcome by carbon monoxide while operating a gasoline powered piece of equipment in a basement area, requiring transport to the emergency room. This story illustrates why everyone should be extremely careful when using a gas powered generator or similar alternative heating or power sources. Improper […]
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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Sen. Chenette welcomes senate pages from Saco to State House
AUGUSTA — On Thursday, Feb. 20, Sen. Justin Chenette, D-Saco, welcomed Victoria Boure, Alexis Bernier, Alexyai Telarico and Jazzmyn Goff, all of Saco, to serve as honorary pages in the Maine Senate. The students attend Thornton Academy in Saco. The honorary page program gives students a unique chance to participate and observe the state’s legislative […]
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Celebrating Maine’s Bicentennial in Scarborough
The Scarborough Public Library and Scarborough Historical Society are collaborating to bring a series of programs to our community in celebration of Maine’s Bicentennial of Statehood. The following programs are open to the public and free to attend. They are made possible through the financial partnership of the Scarborough Public Library, the Scarborough Historical Society, […]
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Pingree announces $87,809 to support 400 Senior Corps volunteers in Scarborough
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.s. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree today announced a grant of $87,809 in Senior Corps funding from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency for volunteering and service, to the Southern Maine Agency on Aging in Scarborough. “Mainers serve others before we serve ourselves — that’s just who we are. […]
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Barbara Harris’s list of accomplishments are endless
The World War II Navy Veteran (1943-1946) built with her own hands a cabin in the woods of West Enfield, Maine, is a Hall of Fame women’s basketball player, taught at one of the country’s top women’s colleges and educated Maine campers about the environment, the universe and God. Now, at age 96, Harris doesn’t […]
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Be a hero for patients: Donate blood during Red Cross Month
The American Red Cross urges the public to join its lifesaving mission by giving blood or platelets this March in celebration of Red Cross Month. Donors of all blood types, especially type O, are urgently needed to help ensure blood is available for patients this spring. Every day, thousands of patients depend on blood donations […]
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Letters to the editor
Vote no on Question 1 To the editor, Vaccines have become a victim of their own success. Many parents of school aged children, do not remember what it is like to have the Measles, or Polio. This is because we all needed to be vaccinated to attend school. Maine’s school vaccination opt out rates surpass […]
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Scarborough residents get academic honors
The University of Maine at Farmington announces its dean’s list for the fall 2019 semester. UMF maintains a dean’s list each semester for those students completing a minimum of 12 credits in courses producing quality points. Students whose grade point average for the semester is equal to or greater than 3.8 are listed with high […]
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Girl Scouts give back
Girl Scouts from Gorham, Westbrook and Scarborough (Nonesuch Service Unit) celebrated World Thinking Day on Feb. 8. They collected art supplies for The Girls Foundation of Tanzania and had a speaker from the Foundation attend. The girls learned about WAGGGS, and did activities that explored this year’s theme “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.” The girls also […]
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Scarborough Spirit on Valentine’s Day
The spirit of Valentine’s Day is shared every year in Scarborough by the Magnolia Mirage. The Mirage spreads neighborliness throughout the Magnolia Place development, a 55+ development off Highland Avenue, by posting large, red Valentine’s Day hearts on every garage door in the neighborhood. No one knows, officially, who the secret Cupid is, but the […]