Falmouth, North Yarmouth, Freeport and Cumberland are set to vote soon on whether to lend their support to the study of a pedestrian-bike pathway from Portland to Auburn.
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Freeport Community Services goes in-house for new director
Sarah Lundin, who has been with the organization for the past six years, has been selected to lead FCS.
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Posted inPortland Forecaster
Council moves forward with homeless services center plans
Portland city councilors agree to have a developer continue its work in spite of calls for it to wait until November when a measure to mandate smaller shelters could be on the ballot.
Posted inPortland Forecaster
Hall calls for two Portland baseball stars
Former Deering Rams Ryan Flaherty and Ryan Reid will be inducted later this year into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame.
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Three seats up for grabs on Bath City Council
Incumbent Terry Nordmann says he is running for reelection; nomination papers for the open spots in Wards 2, 3 and 4 are due Aug. 17.
Posted inSouthern Forecaster
Low police morale likely cause of lengthy chief searches in Scarborough, So. Portland
Officials acknowledge that increased scrutiny and calls for police department de-funding are leading to a dearth of qualified candidates.
Posted inSouthern Forecaster
Scarborough, New Hampshire shop owner to pay child labor fines
Abel Schultze, owner of two markets, including On The Vine in Scarborough, admitted employing 15-year-old workers, but only due to a lack of workforce brought on by the pandemic.
Posted inSouthern Forecaster
Quartet finishes South Portland-Boston walk for Jimmy Fund
The group, literally following in the footsteps of what their fathers did 48 years ago, raised about $40,000 for cancer charity.
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Tri for a Cure hosts part-virtual fundraising event in South Portland
The annual fundraiser for the Maine Cancer Foundation had to go virtual due to the pandemic last year, but this time around there will be one component, a 5K road race, that participants may do in person if they wish on July 18.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Coastal Journal, Lakes Region Weekly, Northern Forecaster, Portland Forecaster, Southern Forecaster
Free school meals in Maine will end stigma, advocates say
Anna Korsen said the new state initiative, just the second in the nation, “has the potential to be the most important piece of child hunger policy” in the state.