SOUTH PORTLAND — The City Council on Monday approved a $87.3 million budget for fiscal 2010.  The council also amended five Maine Mall-area Tax Increment Financing Districts and allocated $300,000 towards a tax stabilization fund.  The $87.3 million budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 is up more than $983,000, or 1.18 percent, from […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — The Town Council began its discussion Monday of the proposed Shore Road Pathway, and discussed the future of Goddard Mansion at Fort Williams. The Fort Williams Advisory Commission has recommended a long-term goal of tearing down most of what’s left of the aging stone structure. The Shore Road Pathway workshop discussion, which […]

BATH — Five sophomores from Morse High School’s Jobs for Maine’s Graduates program took to downtown streets Tuesday afternoon, carrying portraits of children in need of good adoptive parents. The Heart Gallery, 49 portraits in the windows of 10 downtown businesses, will be on display until July 20. JMG specialist Maria Morris said the students approached […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — Amid confusion over maps showing 551 Shore Road with varying percentages of Business-A and Residential-C zoning, the Planning Board Tuesday began discussion over a request to rezone the property from its current split zoning into an entirely residential lot. The board also saw initial plans for mixed-use redevelopment of the century-old home […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — The state Department of Transportation is planning a first-of-its-kind paving project to help address polluted storm-water runoff in the Long Creek Watershed. The project, however, will impact traffic and, by extension, businesses near the Maine Mall throughout the summer and early fall. Project Manager Peter Newkirk said the DOT will be ripping […]

Falmouth High School Class of 2009 Salutatorian Courtney Mazur, center, waits with the rest of her class to enter the high school auditorium June 14. (Natalie Conn photo)Headgear adjustment at Falmouth High School Graduation on June 14. (Natalie Conn photo)Friends and family create photos of the Falmouth High School graduates. (Natalie Conn photo)The Class of […]

CHEBEAGUE ISLAND — “It’s a girl, about a week old,” said Linda Doughty as she gently turned over the week-old baby seal, plump with baby fat and with a still visible umbilical cord. The pup had been stranded for three days recently on an island beach, one of five stranded on Chebeague in the past […]

HARPSWELL — The date of a voter referendum on closing the West Harpswell School will not be known until later this year. Meanwhile, the Harpswell Board of Selectmen has yet to take an official position on the question. The School Administrative District 75 Board of Directors voted June 11 to close the school after the 2009-2010 […]

BRUNSWICK — The Town Council on Monday voted 8-1 to become the master tenant of the train station and welcome center at Maine Street Station, the $23.5 million development that already has a significant financial investment from taxpayers. The council’s decision is the penultimate step to authorizing a $220,000, five-year lease with JHR Development for […]

BRUNSWICK — The Town Council on Monday set a public hearing to discuss proposed zoning amendments important to the redevelopment of Brunswick Naval Air Station. The amendments have been proposed by the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority in cooperation with the town’s planning department. They include three major zones and are designed to dovetail with the […]