The Cumberland-North Yarmouth district will set up a building committee of stakeholders, and numerous subcommittees, to help guide the project, with the goal of opening a new pre-K and Grade 1 school in three years.
Eloise Goldsmith
Eloise is originally from outside of Washington, D.C. These days, she's based in Portland and is a reporter for the Northern Forecaster. Eloise joined the Maine Trust for Local News as a reporter for Kennebunk Post and the Biddeford Courier. Previously she was a fact checker and freelance reporter. Her reporting appears in The Nation, In These Times, Jacobin and elsewhere.
Hometown ‘Idol’ draws a crowd at Cumberland Fairgrounds
Julia Gagnon of “American Idol” fame and her fiance perform old and new songs for more than 350 fans.
Yarmouth Clam Festival ready to get underway Friday
This year’s festival program, including multiple appearances by American Idol’s Julia Gagnon, was a little harder to pull off because of a drop-off in the number of volunteers.
Connie Sweetser had love for family and community – and apples
Services will be held next week for the well-known matriarch of Sweetser’s Apple Barrel and Orchards in Cumberland, who died last week at 93.
Yarmouth hires new community-economic developer director
Tori Hill was previously the community development director in Bridgton.
Cafe Review spotlights ‘war and hope’ in Ukraine
The 35-year-old poetry and arts journal this summer features the works of 17 Ukrainian poets and 12 Ukrainian artists “that reveal the depth of the Ukrainian soul in these trying times.”
BIW officials’ Yarmouth homes target of arms protests
The protesters demand that a Bath Iron Works vice president and a former vice president “stop arming genocide’ in Palestine.
Falmouth council gets back to work on controversial pesticide ordinance
The Town Council will hold two public information sessions to clarify information about the proposed ordinance update and its impacts.
Farm store, brewery set up shop in North Yarmouth
Better Together Acres has launched a farm store and Well & Good Brewing Company is set to open soon.
OceanView at Falmouth moves forward with expansion
The Falmouth Planning Board gives preliminary approval to the addition of 29 residences at Blueberry Commons.