SOUTH PORTLAND — A recount of Nov. 3 ballots verified Monday that Alan Livingston edged Tappan C. Fitzgerald II to represent District 5 on the School Board.  On Election Day, unofficial results indicated that Livingston received 14 more votes than Fitzgerald. That lead dropped to 13 votes, following the certification process, prompting Fitzgerald to ask […]

Scarborough seniors Ellie Morin (6) and Anna Wagner salute the crowd after the Red Storm beat Skowhegan 2-1 on Morin’s overtime goal Oct. 31 to win the program’s first Class A field hockey championship.

BATH — Lesley Dolinger has been named director of Patten Free Library, the library board of trustees announced last week. Her appointment ends a four-month national search. During that time Peter Goodwin served as interim director, filling a vacancy left by former Director Anne Phillips, who resigned this summer. “We are very pleased to have attracted […]

The caption with last week’s photo from the 350.org International Day of Climate Action in Bath misstated what scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The number is 350 parts per million.

SCARBOROUGH — A delay in the purchase of the old Wal-Mart building in Scarborough has made the goal of a pre-holiday opening impossible for the newest Marden’s Surplus & Salvage store. The Planning Board in September rushed to approve Marden’s plan to transform the 119,000-square-foot Payne Road building and meet the conditions the town placed […]

SCARBOROUGH — The Town Council voted Wednesday to give owners of a Haigis Parkway business development a one-year extension on sewer assessment fees. After South Portland-based Fairchild Semiconductor pulled out of an agreement a year ago to build a new headquarters at Gateway Square on Haigis Parkway, developers Barry Feldman and Gene Beaudoin scrambled to […]

SCARBOROUGH — There was no doubt who was in charge at Monday’s Planning Board meeting. Before allowing public comment on a site plan for reconfiguration of the Lighthouse Motel’s parking lot in Pine Point, Chairman Allen Paul laid down the ground rules, asking speakers to comment only on what was in the board’s purview and […]

BATH — The City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved the tax increment financing budget for fiscal 2010. The budget includes two TIFs. The Wing Farm TIF includes the first two phases of the Wing Farm business park, the Bath Iron Works Ultra Hall and downtown projects. The Hampton Inn being built downtown will later be included […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Goodwill Industries of Northern New England will open a flagship store in the former Circuit City building at 555 Maine Mall Road.  Randy Finamore, Goodwill senior vice president of retail, said the store could be open as soon as next spring, creating up to 50 jobs.  Finamore said Portland-based Goodwill has signed […]

BRUNSWICK — The School Department anticipates it will have slash approximately $664,000 from its budget to cope with an expected state aid curtailment. School Superintendent Paul Perzanoski said Tuesday that he expected the official curtailment edict to be announced later this week, when Gov. John Baldacci pulls back an estimated $38 million in state education […]