Cushing’s Point House hits the road SOUTH PORTLAND — Historical Society members anxiously watched Feb. 14 as employees from James G. Merry & Sons of Scarborough moved a more than 100-year-old brick-and-mortar building about 500 feet from Madison Street to a piece of city-owned land near Bug Light Park. Over the next year or so, […]
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s-mainestreetmarketplace-021309 Farmers hope to stimulate economy via online market
Penny Jordan, a Cape Elizabeth Farmer, is one of the forces behind the Maine Street Marketplace, an idea to support Maine agriculture through both local and online sales and centralized distribution. (Photo by Sarah Trent) Cape Elizabeth farmer and Town Councilor Penny Jordan, speaking Tuesday the University of Southern Maine, is one of the forces […]
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Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Revised Bath hotel site plan gets green light
BATH — A site plan amendment that involves changes to two parking lots around a future downtown hotel received unanimous approval from the Planning Board Tuesday night. Developer Peter Anastos, whose proposal to build a Hampton Inn at the Prawer Block was approved last November, returned to the board seeking an amendment to his site plan. […]
Posted inSouthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Scarborough town workers agree to pay freeze
Council wants School Department employees to do likewise SCARBOROUGH — Unionized and non-unionized town employees have agreed to skip pay hikes in the coming fiscal year, Scarborough Town Manager Tom Hall announced at Wednesday’s Town Council meeting. Now, he and councilors are challenging School Department employees to follow suit. Although some details still need to […]
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Border dispute makes Town Meeting warrant
Voters to pick selectman, decide funding for wind turbine, Mitchell Field cleanup HARPSWELL — Voters attending Town Meeting on March 14 will be asked if they want to resume a border dispute with Brunswick that was settled 10 years ago by the state Legislature. Also slated for voters’ consideration are funding for a proposed wind […]
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Public hearing set on Main St. credit union
Route 88 road work at risk in 2010 budget CUMBERLAND — A proposal to put a credit union on Main Street will go to a public hearing at the Town Council’s Feb. 23 meeting. Also scheduled for the meeting are a public hearing on the rezoning of the town-owned Doane Property and a presentation on […]
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Stimulus may avert showdown with S.P. teachers
SOUTH PORTLAND — The federal stimulus package signed into law Tuesday by President Barack Obama may head off a battle between the superintendent of schools and the teachers union. The $787 billion package is expected to restore $27 million cut this year from eduction budgets throughout the state, Department of Education spokesman David Connerty-Marin said […]
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Correction
Correction A Feb. 12 article about the Regional School Unit 5 Board of Directors should have said Eric Dube of Pownal and John Morang of Freeport will serve on the Interview Committee, not Eric Pandora and Nelson Larkins.
Posted inSouthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Council gives initial OK to Knightville group housing
SOUTH POTLAND — The City Council gave initial approval this week for a group housing project for the disabled in Knightville. If the council gives final approval for a conditional zone on March 2, the proposal will be sent to the Planning Board for review. The 20 E St. project would convert an old, three-story […]