Kids at the South Portland Boys & Girls Club make and eat healthy snacks on Wednesday as part of the Junior League of Portland’s “Kid’s in the Kitchen” healthy foods and lifestyles initiative. Junior Leaguer Katie Soule holds a plate of Rice Krispys that Shantel Anthony, right, and Nyamauch Gai, left, add to their snacks […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — The future of 553 Shore Road and other proposed amendments to the Business-A zone will go before the Town Council on Monday, May 11. The Ordinance Committee in February unanimously approved the rezoning of 553 Shore Road into the business district, along with zoning changes that are part of a district overhaul […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — The City Council on Monday night postponed a closed-door review of Dana Anderson, the director of the largest municipal department, but not before several residents raised questions about  the way Anderson’s department is managed. The postponement came after the council was informed that Anderson’s attorney, Thomas Marjerison, works for one of the […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — A state law designed to give businesses tax relief has left the city struggling to fill a more than $690,000 hole in next year’s budget. At a special workshop Wednesday evening, the City Council reviewed several options to close the projected revenue shortfall. The two choices generating the most support would rely […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — A group of history buffs from the public and private sectors have been brought together to figure out a way to preserve 200-year-old Fort Preble. The group not only serves a practical purpose, but also a symbolic one, since Southern Maine Community College and city officials are hoping to improve their sometimes-strained […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Former city managers are distancing themselves from a claim by City Manager Jim Gailey that embezzlement allegations against a city department head were well known. Gailey, meanwhile, issued an apology for implicating the former city leaders. “It was not my intent to bring them into to this,” he said.  The former managers […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — A citizen group claiming to provide “analysis and research for accurate decision making” on town budgets and projects has distributed inaccurate information about the school budget. A flier titled “Vote no, too high and don’t compromise on the school budget” that was distributed at the transfer station last weekend by Cape For […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — The Town Council narrowly approved the School Board’s $20 million budget proposal, allowing taxpayers to vote on the 1.1 percent spending increase. Combined with municipal and county figures, the property tax rate would increase 0.6 percent, or 11 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation, if the proposed school budget is approved by […]

SCARBOROUGH — A determination to hold the line on municipal spending and debate with the School Board over its proposed spending led to the approval Wednesday of a fiscal 2010 budget that maintains this year’s property tax rate of $12.15 per $1,000 of assessed value. The final figures put the total net operating budget at […]