BRUNSWICK — Coaches and parents stunned by the School Board’s May 12 decision to ax freshman sports vented their frustration to the Town Council on Monday, potentially adding a late hurdle to a budget process that seemed to be in the home stretch. Until Monday, the majority of the council appeared content to adopt an […]

PORTLAND — A $100,000 improvement plan for the St. John Street-Valley Street neighborhood is expected to begin later this year, pending approval from the City Council. The streetscape improvements include new crosswalks, traffic islands, trees and more traffic signs. The city will also ask the state to reduce the speed limit on St. John Street […]

FALMOUTH — The Forecaster next week will sponsor a public forum featuring candidates running for Falmouth Town Council and School Board. The debate-style event will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 26, at Town Hall, in the Council Chambers. It will be televised live on Falmouth Community Television Channel 2 and also rebroadcast several […]

PORTLAND — A $196.3 million municipal budget approved by the City Council Monday night includes an increase in the cost of trash bags and a decrease in the number of police officers on Peaks Island. The fiscal year 2011 budget goes into effect July 1. It is $7 million larger than the current budget, and […]

HARPSWELL — State entomologists say a woolly adelgid infestation in Cundy’s Harbor means the invasion of the hemlock-destroying aphid is farther north than ever and likely spreading. Officials with the state Forest Service and the Department of Agriculture say a large infestation of hemlock woolly adelgid was confirmed last week at a property on Cundy’s […]

PORTLAND — The School Committee on Wednesday is expected to appoint two new school administrators. Superintendent James C. Morse Sr. is recommending Ira Waltz as the new principal of Deering High School and Hiram Sibley to fill the assistant principal position at King Middle School. Waltz in the 1990s was an assistant principal at Deering, […]

Editor’s note: Last of a two-part series by the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting examining the campaign resumes of the candidates for governor. One takes credit for leading the fight to save the Maine forests. One takes credit for lowering Mainers’ taxes. One takes credit for cleaning up a Maine river. One takes credit […]

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