5-year plans to address facilities, staffing, operations SOUTH PORTLAND — City department heads are working on strategic plans for their departments that would help guide decision-making for the next five years. City Manager Jim Gailey said department heads were directed in November to begin working on strategic plans as a way for the city to […]
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State panel seeks to resolve South Portland labor dispute
Library workers without a contract since vote to unionize in 2006 SOUTH PORTLAND — An independent panel will conduct a fact-finding session April 13 into an ongoing dispute between the city and library workers, who voted in 2006 to form a union. Since that time, the two sides have tried unsuccessfully to reach an agreement. […]
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Subsidy cut leaves $500K hole in Cape Elizabeth school budget
CAPE ELIZABETH — If the state subsidy to schools is approved as currently proposed for fiscal 2010, the School Department will lose more than $500,000 in funding compared with this year’s budget. The subsidy is proposed by the state at just below $2.6 million. The total school expenditures budget has been proposed at $20.2 million, […]
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Correction
A March 26 story about a Cumberland Girl Scout’s work with Portland Power Yoga incorrectly reported the type of yoga practiced at the studio. It is Power Vinyasa yoga.
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Cape’s 1st home wind turbine quietly does its job CAPE ELIZABETH — Walking out into his back yard on a chilly March morning, Warren Roos had more to talk about than the weather. “It’s running about two light bulbs right now,” he said, looking up at the 50-foot-tall wind turbine dominating his landscape. That’s not […]
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Investigator to probe South Portland layoffs
SOUTH PORTLAND — The city has agreed to work with an outside investigator looking into the layoffs of five veteran city employees. The decision came less than week after one of the former employees submitted her own report to the city manager and mayor and nearly a week before some residents are planning a public […]
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Madeline Point plan OK'd by Yarmouth Planning Board
YARMOUTH — Although it did not discuss project costs, the Planning Board has approved an amended version of a pier and float project at Madeline Point. The project includes the construction of the pier and float system, a drop-off and turn-around area, parking along the access road and increased mooring sites. According to engineer Barney […]
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SAD 75, Brunswick eye special ed collaboration
TOPSHAM — The special education directors of School Administrative District 75 and Brunswick want to combine their programs by 2013. The collective would comprise one set of programs, polices and practices for both districts, as well as a single administrative structure for special education and shared governance by the Brunswick and SAD 75 school boards. The […]
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Brunswick could be master tenant of train station
Council to decide if town should negotiate with developer BRUNSWICK — The town could end up holding the keys to the 2,100-square-foot train station and welcome center at the $23 million Maine Street Station project. Brunswick is already a partner in the project, having committed more than $2 million to infrastructure costs, as well as […]
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Maine Mall tax appeal delayed
SOUTH PORTLAND — An administrative hearing scheduled for April 8 in Augusta for the owners of the Maine Mall to appeal their 2006 property tax bill has been delayed. Attorneys for the mall’s owners, General Growth Properties, and the city are working to rescheduled the hearing, which will now likely be conducted this summer or […]