FREEPORT — As she walks down the hallways of Morse Street School, Principal Cherie White talks to each child she sees and calls them by name. She has walked these corridors for 20 years, and knows all of the students, their siblings and their parents. She visits each classroom every day. A few months ago, […]

PORTLAND — The South Portland video producer who was caught up in the raid on a Gaza relief flotilla by Israeli troops May 31 will speak about his experience Friday at Sacred Heart Church. Scott Hamann was aboard one of six ships in the flotilla when the Israeli Navy boarded the ships in international waters. […]

FREEPORT — On a beautiful spring afternoon, 13 sophomore girls became the first class to graduate from the Coastal Studies for Girls Science and Leadership School. Graduation activities took place last week at the school’s farmhouse on Wolfe’s Neck Road. The pioneer class included students from Maine, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, the greater Boston area, […]

FALMOUTH — Sixth-grader Marie Baker scrunched her nose as she walked into the small greenhouse beside Falmouth Middle School. An acrid smell filled the air as she and her classmates opened a big, green compost bin and pulled out the long thermometer. “Why does it smell like that?” asked their teacher, Craig Shain. “Too much […]

NORTH YARMOUTH — Virginia Dwyer secured 556 votes on Tuesday to keep her seat on the School Administrative District 51 Board of Directors, defeating challenger Martha Leggat. Leggat received 516 votes, according to unofficial totals. “I’m very pleased,” said Dwyer, who has represented North Yarmouth on the board for one term. “I just want to keep […]

PORTLAND — The City Council is expected to decide whether Portland should join the list of municipalities with temporary bans on medical marijuana dispensaries. Mainers voted last year to allow medical marijuana dispensaries in the state. The council was prepared to take emergency action on a moratorium on Monday, June 7, but then shelved the […]

PORTLAND —  A Portland resident has been tapped from a national pool of applicants to create a unified curriculum for the city’s public schools. The School Committee will meet in closed session on Wednesday night, June 9, to negotiate a contract for David Galin. Galin, who is now the curriculum director in School Administrative District […]

PORTLAND — Cumberland County officials scrambled on the days before Tuesday’s election to disclaim an e-mail sent by the Cumberland County Civic Center general manager in support of Question 1 on the statewide ballot. Question 1 is an effort to repeal tax reform enacted by  the Legislature to lower income taxes by increasing the sales […]

PORTLAND — Natural gas provider Unitil has started to replace about 75 miles of cast iron and steel pipelines in Portland and Westbrook. Whether that work will be finished in 12 years or up to 20 years – and its effect on gas rates – will be the subject of a public hearing at Portland […]

FALMOUTH — Voters overwhelmingly approved the $24.6 million school budget by an unofficial vote of 2,951 to 791 in Tuesday’s budget validation referendum. The voters also supported continuing to hold school budget validation referendums for another three years, 2,690 to 1,035. The budget, which is $341,000 less than last year’s budget, includes a zero percent […]