TOPSHAM — The Board of Selectmen on July 16 unanimously selected Snowden Consulting Engineers of Oakland to conduct an engineering study for drainage improvements at Bay Park. Although the town budgeted $60,000 for that study, the five bids it received for the work all came in well under that amount. While Snowden’s bid of $30,175 was […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — The City Council Monday night approved more than $100,000 in technology for schools. Nearly $80,000 was approved for wireless upgrades to Kaler, Dyer and Small elementary schools. More than $32,000 was approved to purchase 10 interactive whiteboards, known as Smartboards.  Two residents spoke against the investment. Boothby Avenue resident Nancy Richardson suggested […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — City planners are considering a zone change that could lead to a wind turbine at Wainwright Farms, the city’s sprawling athletic complex on Highland Avenue.  The Planning Board is scheduled to consider a zoning amendment on July 28 that would allow wind test towers, or meteorologic towers, to be erected in the […]

Last week’s story, “Falmouth seeks stimulus money for improvements to fire station”, should have said some Town Councilors voiced their support of the plan.

BATH — Larry Dyer, principal of the Fisher-Mitchell School and a school administrator in the city for nearly 15 years, will retire effective June 30, 2010. Dyer’s announcement, made following the end of the 2008-09 school year last month, was discussed by the Regional School Unit 1 Board of Directors on Monday evening. “To Larry’s credit, […]

TOPSHAM — With much pomp and circumstance and with their families and friends looking on, Lt. Col. Wade Murdock passed command of the New England Army Recruiting Battalion to Lt. Col. Patrick Macklin on July 17. As part of the base realignment and closure process at Brunswick Naval Air Station, the battalion will move to […]

BRUNSWICK — The Town Council on Monday unanimously approved three new zoning districts that will help govern the reuse of Brunswick Naval Air Station. The council’s 7-0 vote came despite a lingering disagreement between a citizen group pushing for land use controls on contaminated groundwater sites and the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, the organization implementing […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — The town has updated the administrative code outlining its departmental structure, streamlining town departments by reducing them from 11 to eight. This is the first change to the code since 1993. The Town Council adopted the change July 13 after modifying Town Manager Michael McGovern’s original proposal, which reduced the number of […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — This will be the fourth year Jeff and Kerri Berman have hosted an elite foreign runner visiting Cape Elizabeth for the TD Banknorth Beach to Beacon 10K, and it may be the most memorable. Dejene Birhanu, who stayed with the Bermans last year before finishing eighth in the 2008 race, will return […]

BRUNSWICK — The Town Council on Monday set an Aug. 3 public hearing to discuss the merits of a zoning amendment that would allow taller cell phone towers in industrial zones.  The change would allow wireless communication towers up to 120 feet in height. According to Town Planner Kris Hultgren, applicants would have to go […]