BATH — The times may change, but the city maintains the classic holiday season atmosphere with its annual celebration of “An Old-Fashioned Christmas.” Mari Eosco, interim director of Main Street Bath, has been participating in the month-long series of events over the 15 years she’s been with the organization. It took on even greater meaning […]
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'Fun, functional, stylish' pays off for Portland startup
PORTLAND — Sea Bags, an 18-year-old Old Port startup, has reached a significant milestone, hiring its 100th employee. “We started with two seamstresses and look where we are today,” Beth Shissler, the company’s chief operations officer, said. “Employees who have recently joined Sea Bags come from Maine all the way to California, and hold unique experiences […]
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'The power of words': Portland students share love of poetry
PORTLAND — There’s an art to performing poetry live, one that Mae Livermore, a junior at Deering High School, is working hard to perfect. She took first place at the school’s recent Slam of the Dead contest, where her original poem, entitled “Nice Boys,” impressed the judges. Livermore said her winning poem “came from a dark […]
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‘Cage of Science’ captures changing quality of Casco Bay
YARMOUTH — About once a month for the past 25 years, Friends of Casco Bay staff have been visiting 10 sites around the bay by boat to collect water quality data. The significant changes in Casco Bay have caused increasing concern over the last decade, particularly warmer water temperatures later into September over the past […]
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‘Awesome’: Partial solar eclipse shines for Portland watchers
PORTLAND — For Sylvie Zackrone, the difference Monday was almost night and day. “I think it is really, stupidly different,” she said Aug. 21 about viewing a partial solar eclipse through tinted glasses after watching through a foil-lined cardboard box. Zackrone was one of hundreds who gathered in Monument Square for a viewing event organized by […]
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$105M school budget awaits Portland voters
PORTLAND — A $105 million education budget goes to voters June 13 at polling places throughout the city. Reduced from the original $107.6 million proposed in February by Superintendent Xavier Botana, the budget would add 28 cents to the city property tax rate of $21.11 per $1,000 of assessed value. When the school budget is combined […]
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'Lean, optimistic' Brunswick budget proposes 5% tax hike
BRUNSWICK — The Town Council received a fiscal 2018 budget Tuesday that could increase property taxes by nearly 5 percent. Town Manager John Eldridge recommended a $63 million budget – about $1.5 million, or 2.4 percent, higher than this year’s spending – that includes two new staff positions and a different financial approach toward planned municipal maintenance. […]
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‘Challenging starting point’ for Scarborough budget
SCARBOROUGH — Officials are calling a proposal that could require tax increases ranging from 5.77 percent to 7.14 percent a “starting-point” budget. Town Manager Thomas Hall and Superintendent of Schools Julie Kukenberger presented the proposed town and school budgets for fiscal year 2018 at Wednesday’s Town Council meeting. The total that would have to be […]
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'Lucksgottachange' the mantra as Scarborough Downs reopens
SCARBOROUGH — Racing season got underway at Scarborough Downs last weekend beneath a cloud of uncertainty about the future of harness racing at the track. “New England’s fastest half-mile track,” which opened in 1950, began its 67th season Saturday, March 25, less than a week after Thomas Powers, a Cohassett, Massachusetts developer, revealed he and a […]
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‘Heritage’ baker kneads Jewish, Nordic ancestry
PORTLAND — Making bread from scratch is as much art as science. The ingredients may be the same every time, but no loaf is like another, even loaves from the same batch. That’s just one aspect of bread making that fascinates Audrey Farber, owner of Bubbe & Bestemor’s Baking Co. “I’ve always had it in the back […]