The Homeless Animal Rescue Team in Cumberland raised over $4,000 through its March Meowness fundraiser this year, double the amount raised last year. HART, a non-profit, volunteer-run, no-kill shelter and adoption center, has designated $2,000 of that amount for food, litter and medications. The remaining money was explicitly donated for The Burt Fund, which provides […]
Rachel Vitello
Rachel Vitello is a staff writer for the Northern Forecaster, covering Falmouth, Yarmouth, Cumberland and Chebeague Island. She is a Keene State College graduate where she majored in journalism and minored in gender studies. She is originally from Weymouth, Massachusetts.
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Towns come together for Habitat for Humanity
Falmouth, Yarmouth, Cumberland and North Yarmouth will host the 36th annual “4 Community Springtime Walk” Saturday, April 30, to benefit Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland. The walk will start and end at Cumberland Town Hall, 290 Tuttle Road. Participants can walk pre-planned routes of 1, 2, 5 and 10 miles any time between 7 […]
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Yarmouth Farmers Market makes return May 5
Yarmouth Farmers Market returns for the season on May 5. The market will be held every Thursday from 3-6 p.m. through Oct. 27 at 1 Railroad Square. Fifteen regular vendors will include Andrews Farm, Niyat Catering, Empanada Club and Counterpoint Bread, and guest vendors also will be on site each week. Food trucks also will […]
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Mental health liaison to join Falmouth, Yarmouth, Cumberland police
The liaison will respond to mental health-related calls, provide crisis intervention and connect people to mental health services.
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Greely, Yarmouth students raise thousands for victims of war
A fourth grader at Greely Middle School in Cumberland was the driving force behind a read-a-thon that raised $45,000 for relief efforts, and a Yarmouth High School club raises thousands more than their original goal.
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Anonymous donor gives Falmouth police $300,000 for Tasers, cameras
The gift means the department can fully outfit its force with stun guns and cameras and its patrol cars with dash cams at no cost to the department or taxpayers.
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Conservation trust targets land in four-town ‘hot spot’
The Royal River watershed in New Gloucester, Pownal, Durham and Auburn “is special in the context of the unknown of the future climate,” according to the Royal River Conservation Trust, which is looking for land donations.
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Yarmouth brewery release will benefit local park
Brickyard Hollow brewery is releasing a canned beer to help benefit Latchstring Park in Yarmouth. The release of Latchstring canned beer on May 1 from 2-6 p.m. will include live music and pizza specials at the Yarmouth location, 236 Main St., with 100% of can sales benefiting renovations by The Latchstring Park Task Force. The […]
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New residents invited to Cumberland event
Cumberland officials will welcome new residents at a New Resident Orientation from 6-8 p.m. May 3 at Town Council Chambers at Town Hall, 290 Tuttle Road. Representatives from town departments will be on hand to talk about Cumberland’s services and answer questions. This is the first time the orientation has been held in two years […]
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Earth Day clean-up April 23 in Falmouth
The Falmouth Conservation Commission is hosting an Earth Day community clean-up event Saturday, April 23, from 9 a.m. to noon at the River Point Conservation Area on Route 100, east of the West Falmouth Crossing Shopping Center. Participants should park at the head of the railroad bridge or in back of the shopping center parking […]