PORTLAND — The School Department will not seek criminal charges against a group of Republicans who allegedly rummaged through and removed material from a classroom at King Middle School. But School Committee member Sarah Thompson said she will ask Superintendent James Morse Sr. to meet with school attorneys and City Manager Joe Gray to review […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Superintendent of Schools Suzanne Godin said the School Department will now focus on passing a bond to renovate South Portland High School after residents OK’d a $41.6 million school budget for next year. The School Board on Monday voted unanimously to ask the City Council to place a renovation bond before voters […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — The Town Council Monday night unanimously approved changes to the agricultural portion of the zoning ordinance. The changes have been in progress for more than two years, and were vetted by local farmers, the Ordinance Committee, Planning Board and members of the Cape Farm Alliance. Councilor Dave Sherman, chairman of the Ordinance Committee, […]

SCARBOROUGH — Longtime residents may remember skating on Pollywonkie Pond in the winter, seeing birds of prey soaring overhead in the summer, and enjoying the peaceful tranquility of Red Brook, which flowed through Scarborough and South Portland until the 1970s. Today the river has been pushed aside, literally, to make room for what a Wal-Mart […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — A local group is teaming up with a national organization to ensure that South Portland High School graduates can maximize financial aid and scholarships for college. Project Scholarship was launched in 2007 by a group of local residents with a vision to give every SPHS graduate a college scholarship. But Co-Chairman Ralph […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — The city is poised to hire an outside consultant to perform a comprehensive energy audit of municipal buildings and recommend energy-efficient upgrades. During a workshop Monday night, the City Council supported the idea of hiring Siemens Corp., a national company with an office in Scarborough that recently completed a similar audit of […]

TOPSHAM — Voters at Town Meeting next week will decide on an $8.3 million municipal budget for fiscal 2011, as well as a medical marijuana moratorium, in a 27-item warrant. Town Meeting will be held at Mt. Ararat High School at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 19. Next year’s proposed budget is an increase from the current […]

BATH — Malcolm Gauld’s 45-minute motivational talk to college-bound high school seniors proved popular enough to evolve into a 65-page book. Having taught for 35 years, the president and CEO of the Hyde Schools – including the boarding school at 616 High St. – arguably knows a thing or two about what it takes to make it […]

TOPSHAM — The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously May 6 in favor of starting the process to establish the town’s title to the old Main Street right of way. The board authorized town staff to work with attorney John Moncure to settle Topsham’s ownership claim in that area of town, near Green Street and the old […]

AUGUSTA — The mild winter and early spring has triggered a large-scale infestation of the browntail moth caterpillar, which the Maine Forest Service expects to be most prevalent in five Mid-Coast communities. Bath, Brunswick, Topsham, West Bath and Bowdoinham are likely to see the greatest infestation, according to the Forest Service. Charlene Donahue, an entomologist with […]