SOUTH PORTLAND — Incumbent City Councilor Thomas Blake and School Board member Alan Livingston defeated two other candidates Tuesday for two at-large seats on the City Council. According to unofficial results, Blake received 6,140 votes and Livingston earned 3,858. Frequent School Department critic Albert DiMillo Jr., a retired corporate accountant, was third with 3,511. Donald […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Voters on Tuesday approved a $41.5 million bond to renovate and expand South Portland High School. Unofficial machine tallies showed that the bond passed by a vote of 6,673 to 4,297. City Clerk Susan Mooney said 61 percent of the city’s 18,691 voters turned out for the election. Jeff Selser, spokesman for […]

TOPSHAM — Residents voted 2,358 to 1,933 Tuesday to ban new cellular communications towers in a residential part of town. The ban is retroactive to April 1 and was sought by a petition that collected 556 certified signatures. The Board of Selectmen voted in July to send the matter to a referendum. Residents of the […]

FREEPORT — Nearly 66 percent of registered voters came to the polls Tuesday and they approved five amendments to the Town Charter. The amendments were the result of several council discussions, two failed citizen petitions to overturn consolidation of dispatch services with Brunswick, and a Human Rights complaint on behalf of residents with disabilities. Question […]

FALMOUTH — It was a rough day for legislative incumbents Tuesday. Sen. Gerald Davis, R-Falmouth, was unseated in Senate District 11 by independent Dick Woodbury of Yarmouth, while incumbent Rep. Mary Nelson, D-Falmouth, who was challenged by Republican Mark Richard, barely held her House District 112 seat. Woodbury had an unofficial total of 7,805 votes […]

YARMOUTH — Incumbent Rep. Melissa Walsh Innes, D-Yarmouth, defeated Republican Jeffrey Weinstein and will serve a second term in House District 107. She received 2,552 votes to Weinstein’s 1,876. There were 4,551 ballots cast in Yarmouth, a 61 percent voter turnout. Innes, 39, of East Elm Street, is married and has three children. She grew […]

CUMBERLAND — Rep. Meredith Strang Burgess, R-Cumberland, won a third term in state House District 108 Tuesday. According to preliminary results from Cumberland, North Yarmouth, Chebeague Island and Long Island, Strang Burgess received 3,082 votes, defeating Democrat Thomas Gruber, who had 1,514, and Green Independent Erin Cianchette, who had 501. All three candidates are Cumberland […]

BRUNSWICK — Town Councilor Margo Knight retained her District 6 seat on Tuesday. Knight defeated challenger Scott Taylor, 449-303, to earn a second term. She was originally appointed in 2007 to fill a vacancy. There were two uncontested, incumbent council candidates: Councilor David Watson in District 1 and Councilor Benjamin Tucker in District 2. District […]

FREEPORT — Incumbent Democratic Rep. David C. Webster will keep the House District 106 seat for a fourth term. He was challenged by Republican William Greene in the race to represent Freeport and a portion of Pownal. In Freeport, Webster received 64 percent of the vote. The unofficial count was 2,589 to 1,443. In Pownal, […]

BRUNSWICK — Challenger Rich Ellis defeated incumbent Byron Watson for the District 1 School Board seat on Tuesday The vote was 623-486. Brenda Clough, a first-time candidate, was uncontested for the District 2 seat and incumbent Janet Connors was uncontested in District 6; she has served 13 years on the School Board. “I would like to […]