The following students in your readership area (listed alphabetically by hometown) graduated from Saint Joseph’s College in Standish, Maine, on May 12: Kevin Hageman Albion Shannon Irish Auburn Lisa LeBlanc Auburn Jamie Morrison Auburn Jaime Daugherty Bar Harbor Tiffany Labbe Biddeford Taryn Wentworth Biddeford Michael Astbury Blue Hill Mark Clapp Blue Hill Catherine Buck Bowdoinham […]

With some frustration, Westbrook’s city council has put a $250,000 curbside recycling program into next year’s budget, cutting out a self-supporting, drop-off recycling program added to the budget just four days before. “I can’t face the status quo,” said Councilor Suzanne Joyce, who put the motion on the table to add the program. Joyce described […]

With some frustration, Westbrook’s city council has put a $250,000 curbside recycling program into next year’s budget, cutting out a self-supporting, drop-off recycling program added to the budget just four days before. “I can’t face the status quo,” said Councilor Suzanne Joyce, who put the motion on the table to add the program. Joyce described […]

Debbie Peck CUTLINE ONLY Westbrook educator Debbie Peck has been selected by the Maine Department of Education as a Distinguished Educator for the 2007-2008 school year. Peck is the Westbrook school district’s director of special services, and has been an educator for 32 years – 25 of them in Westbrook. She will be working from […]

School Administrative District 6 directors were expected to meet Wednesday evening to determine their next step after district voters failed to approve a portion of the school budget Tuesday. Although voters authorized the $38.8 million budget, Article 4, which is included in the total sum, didn’t pass. Article 4 asked for $1.5 million in additional […]

MERCY AUXILIARY TO HOLD FASHION SHOW PORTLAND, MAINE – June 1, 2007 – The Auxiliary to Mercy Hospital will hold its 2nd Annual “Funding with Flair” Fashion Show, June 21st, 6 pm, at The Marriott at Sable Oaks in South Portland. The Auxiliary is a dedicated group of individuals who support Mercy Health System through […]

Buxton voters will decide on an estimated $4.7 million town budget – including a fire deparment request up 20 percent over this year – at Buxton’s annual town meeting. Moderator Hiram Davis will convene the session Saturday at 9 a.m. in town hall, 185 Portland Road. Newly re-elected Selectman Daniel T. Collomy is expecting a […]

Buxton voters chose incumbent Dan Collomy and Linda Pulsoni for town selectmen in Tuesday’s election, narrowly approved borrowing $1.8 million for a public works garage and approved a $38.9 million SAD 6 budget. In a tight race for selectman, Collomy, 75, led a field of six candidates with 354 votes while Pulsoni, 54, tallied 340, […]

Gorham High School graduates were urged Sunday to do what they love and be thankful. “Passion is always contagious,” valedictorian Emily Mason-Osann told her fellow students during commencement ceremonies Sunday at Merrill Auditorium in Portland, where 186 seniors received diplomas from Principal John Drisko. “Do what you love with passion and gusto,” Mason-Osann exhorted. She […]

Education by government: A federally funded program teaches that AIDS can be transmitted through tears. Another federal program to fight AIDS refuses to authorize the use of condoms, Who’s in charge? Since President Monroe, U.S. presidents have issued “signing statements” designed to clarify presidential interpretation of new laws. In the two centuries before G. W. […]