SOUTH PORTLAND — Four School Department jobs are expected to be eliminated after one of four unions vetoed a furlough day to meet a mid-year cut in state education funding. The proposed furlough day, which needed the support of all four school unions, would have saved the district $140,000 in the current budget. Instead, stimulus […]

Sternman Andy Haddock loads lobster traps from his boat onto the dock in South Freeport on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 13. Haddock and lobsterman Rob Scammon will store and dry the traps until the lobstering season gets back into full swing.

CAPE ELIZABETH — Kim and Chris Gillies have made a point to give back to their community, and with the help of their two daughters, have made it a family routine.  Chris, Kim and daughters Zoe, 13, and Christie, 10, volunteer in Cape Elizabeth and were recently recognized for their efforts. Kim Gillies said her family […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — General Growth Properties has cancelled plans to build a mini-mall featuring a Barnes & Noble book store on Maine Mall Road.  The decision comes as GGP plans its biggest development project to date – in Maryland – and fights a hostile takeover bid in bankruptcy court from the nation’s largest owner of malls. But […]

CUMBERLAND — Charles “Bill” Kenny, a retired Air Force officer and Gulf War veteran, announced his candidacy Monday in state Senate District 11. District 11, currently served by Sen. Gerald Davis, R-Falmouth, includes Cumberland, Chebeague Island, Long Island, Yarmouth, North Yarmouth, Falmouth, and Gray. Kenny, a Southern New Hampshire University professor in graduate level organizational leadership, […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — Lighting upgrades at the high school, middle school, Pond Cove Elementary School and the Community Center will begin this summer thanks to an energy conservation block grant from the Maine Public Utilities Commission. Cape Elizabeth is one of Maine’s 87 communities that received grants for projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, energy use […]

FALMOUTH — Police Officer George Savidge was promoted and assigned as a patrol sergeant. Savidge joined the Police Department in 2002 after four years with the Bath Police Department. He grew up in Falmouth, is a graduate of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Vassalboro and holds an associates degree in law enforcement from Southern Maine […]

HARPSWELL — Work is underway on the removal of 7.25 miles of fuel pipeline along Route 123, a milestone for a four-year effort to restore land to property owners and eliminate a potential environmental hazard. On Tuesday, about a dozen town officials and advocates for pipeline removal gathered at Lookout Point Road for a ceremonial […]

BATH — The Planning Board voted unanimously Tuesday to continue discussion again on a final subdivision application for the third phase of the Wing Farm Business Park. Board members expressed a desire to hear more about plans for short-term improvements to the intersection of Congress Avenue and Centre Street, which leads into Wing Farm Parkway. They […]

TOPSHAM — The draft municipal budget for fiscal 2011 shows a 1.2 percent increase over the current amount, Town Manager Jim Ashe said last week. Preliminary numbers reflect an increase of nearly $200,000 from the current $16.7 million budget to $16.9 next year. Capital requests are up from $369,000 in fiscal 2010 to a proposed $630,500 […]