SCARBOROUGH — Over the Thanksgiving weekend, four classrooms in the Wentworth Intermediate School will have windows removed and boarded over in anticipation of replacement scheduled during the winter holiday break. The plan, according to Facilities Director Todd Jepson, is to remove as many windows as possible before the replacement windows arrive, because the removal process […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — With the help of a nearly $4,000 grant from Project Canopy, the arboretum project will purchase 11 trees of eight different species for Fort Williams Park. The grant from the state program supports long-term community forestry programs and will be matched by more than $17,000 in maintenance, mulch, supplies, surveying, excavation, volunteer […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — The Environmental Club received a $1,000 grant from the Cape Elizabeth Education Foundation to create a composting and recycling project at the high school. Susan Guerrette, the Environmental Club advisor and science teacher, said the students tried a composting project last year, but the materials were brought off school property and the […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — It happens to even well-behaved library users. You check out a book and forget to return it by the due date. You eventually return the book, through the drop slot by the door. Then, you avoid the librarian, because of the shame that comes with paying the dreaded late fee. But through […]

BRUNSWICK — A final draft of the master plan for downtown Brunswick is expected to be presented to town councilors next month. The plan is “a vision” for downtown, Councilor and Downtown Master Plan Committee Chairwoman Margo Knight said. Input has been gathered for the plan, in the works since 2008, through several public workshop meetings. […]

HARPSWELL — After being criticized for the way it changed coastal flood maps earlier this year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is inviting Harpswell and other communities to participate in a new mapping process. Town Administrator Kristi Eiane presented information about FEMA’s new RiskMAP program to the Board of Selectmen on Nov. 18. RiskMAP, which […]

BRUNSWICK — Anyone who has lived in Brunswick for a while will probably recall radio station WCME. Now, a new owner of the call letters and frequency aims to resurrect the station. Jim Bleikamp purchased the frequency at 900 AM in April 2009 from his friend Bob Bittner, who owns WJTO in Bath. Bleikamp said […]

HARPSWELL — State Education Commissioner Angela Faherty has told selectmen that the cost to keep West Harpswell School open will be reduced to about $191,000. Selectmen sought a reduction from the original School Administrative District 75 estimate of nearly $196,000, based on a discrepancy in the cost of teacher salaries, Town Administrator Kristi Eiane said […]

FALMOUTH — A possible community center project was delayed Monday after the Town Council tabled a resolution describing the project’s potential space needs. But councilors reached a consensus about keeping the Town Hall on Falmouth Road. The motion to table the community center resolution was made by Councilor Bonny Rodden, who said she was uncomfortable […]

TOPSHAM — The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Nov. 18 to extend the town’s moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries for up to six more months. But the moratorium would end if voters at a special Town Meeting on Jan. 12, 2011, support proposed ordinance language that would govern the dispensaries, Town Manager Jim Ashe said […]