FALMOUTH — Voters on June 11 will have a choice between five candidates for three seats on the Town Council. The candidates are Jim Chaousis, Janice de Lima, Tommy Johnson, Valentine Sheldon and Jay Trickett. Only two of them – Chaousis and de Lima – have previously sought elected office, and neither one was elected. Councilor Claudia King is […]
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Bath museum dives into 'Shipwrecks & Salvage'
BATH — Traveling along U.S. Route 1 as a youth, seeing the wrecked schooners Hesper and Luther Little mired on the Wiscasset shore, struck a chord with Chris Timm. “Each year they’d be listing more and more, and maybe have one fewer mast,” the Maine Maritime Museum curator of exhibits said May 15. “We talk […]
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Yarmouth community center could get green light in June
YARMOUTH — Three years after the idea was first floated, a community center is close to getting final approval to take over the Masonic Lodge on Mill Street. The idea, according to Horace Horton, who co-chairs the Yarmouth Community Center Steering Committee with his wife Barbara, is to consolidate many of Yarmouth’s social services and other […]
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Yarmouth voters face 2 decisions on school budget
YARMOUTH — Residents will get two opportunities in June to vote on the proposed $26.6 million school budget, which would add 65 cents per $1,000 of valuation to the tax rate. The fiscal year 2020 combined muncipal and school budget now pending before the Town Council totals $40.9 million. The municipal portion represents $14.3 million. Under […]
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Portland council restores social services funding, reduces school budget
PORTLAND — After a long night of public comment and several significant amendments, the City Council passed a combined municipal and school budget Monday that will increase property taxes by 83 cents per $1,000 of valuation. The tax rate is expected to increase from the current $22.48 per $1,000 to $23.31 under the new spending package, […]
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Pleas fail to save Engine 1 on Portland’s Munjoy Hill
PORTLAND — The City Council Monday rejected a proposal by Mayor Ethan Strimling to add $400,000 to the municipal budget to cover the cost of hiring nine new firefighters. The 6-3 vote to decommission Engine 1 came after several firefighters urged councilors to restore funding for the Munjoy Hill unit, arguing that retiring the truck would […]
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Bath council to vote on $16.6M city budget
BATH — Next year’s proposed $16.6 million budget – up about $751,000, or 4.7% from current spending – goes to a City Council vote Wednesday, June 5. With hikes in non-tax revenues like interest income, revenue sharing and sewer fees offsetting expenditures, the municipal portion of fiscal year 2020 taxes is due to decline 0.42 percent (about […]
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Brunswick, Topsham, Bath, Harpswell prep for Memorial Day events
BRUNSWICK — Topsham, Brunswick, Harpswell and Bath are planning a full morning of events on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27. Topsham and Brunswick’s joint parade units will begin to line up at Monument Place at 8:15 a.m. Following an 8:45 a.m. observance there, the parade will move down Main Street toward Brunswick at 9 a.m., […]
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Portland kindergarten students raise money for well at Kenyan school
PORTLAND — After they learned about a school in Kenya that didn’t have ready access to clean drinking water, kindergarten students at Lyseth Elementary School decided they had to help. They raided their piggy banks and donated their tooth fairy money. One enterprising student set up a lemonade and cupcake stand in her neighborhood. In all, […]
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Portland parades, remembrance ceremonies to mark Memorial Day
PORTLAND — The city’s annual Memorial Day celebration is scheduled to commence at 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 27, with a parade down Congress Street. The parade, to honor those who died in service to their country, is organized by the American Legion Harold T. Andrews Post No. 17. The route runs from Longfellow Square to Monument […]