DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: In one of your recent columns (“What Healthcare Reform Means for Seniors”) you wrote that seniors with a Medicare prescription drug plan could get a $250 rebate check when they hit the donut hole. I’ve just hit it! What do I need to do to get my check and how long will […]

The city of Portland has a new rain garden that is filtering water from about a quarter of the Back Cove parking lot on Preble Street extension. And this is a serious rain garden. Designed and paid for by Stantec, a national engineering firm with a Portland office, it has specially engineered soil, 168 carefully […]

Police say Thayne Ormsby admitted stabbing three people, including a 10-year-old boy, in Amity.

YARMOUTH — Firefighters extinguished a blaze Friday morning, July 2, that destroyed a private dock off Wills Way on Cousins Island. According to Deputy Fire Chief Michael Robitaille, the fire call came in at 3:04 a.m. The dock, the ramp leading to the water and a small boat were destroyed in the flames. Robitaille said […]

Spill response crews wait for the sea to calm and for a decision on using a ‘whale’ of an oil skimmer.

Kaitlyn, 5, and Rylie McIntyre, 3, dance to the music at the second annual Strawberry Fest on June 26 at Maxwell’s Farm in Cape Elizabeth. The event, put on by the Cape Farm Alliance, offered an array of edible strawberry concoctions, including strawberry pizza from FlatBread Co., and a full day of family activities and […]

Book lovers from around the area converged on the Brunswick Junior High School gymnasium last weekend for the annual Curtis Friends Book Sale. More than 50,000 books, tapes, CDs and DVDs were for sale, with all proceeds benefiting Curtis Memorial Library.

SCARBOROUGH — The Scarborough Community Chamber, in partnership with Scarborough Community Services, is sponsoring the annual free summer concert series in Memorial Park. The series features performances in a range of musical genres on Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 8, will feature Nashville and Scarborough’s own Don Campbell Band playing country tunes. July […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — The South Portland Historical Society is used to documenting local history. But this weekend it will be making some of its own with the grand opening of the Cushing’s Point House museum at Bug Light Park. The group will host a formal ceremony at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 4, that will […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — The School Department is looking for eight parents to serve on three study groups that could lead to major changes within the district. Superintendent Suzanne Godin said there are no specific qualifications to serve on the study groups, other than being a parent of a South Portland public school student. “We’re looking […]