FREEPORT — Acting Police Chief Susan Nourse on Wednesday will become the first woman sworn in as permanent chief of police. The Town Council approved Nourse’s appointment Tuesday night, with an annual salary of $81,500. Councilors voted 6-0, with Councilor Lee Arris abstaining. A swearing-in ceremony was scheduled for noon Wednesday at Town Hall. Town Manager […]

YARMOUTH — More than 430 residents attended Town Meeting Tuesday night, where they overwhelmingly passed a contested $23.1 million school budget. The fiscal 2017 budget, approved by a vote of 363-73, now goes to a voter referendum June 14. The municipal budget of almost $12 million was also approved at the annual meeting, but the vote […]

FALMOUTH — New businesses that include a block of salons, a laundry center and, perhaps, a tenant at the shuttered Wendy’s restaurant are coming to the Route 1 corridor. Just behind Wal-Mart, a little past the property where the Rivalries restaurant and sports bar is being built , a new block of salon studios could open by […]

NORTH YARMOUTH — Nine years after it began providing fuel assistance to those in need, the nonprofit Cumberland Woodbank now has a new home in a neighboring town and a lot more space. After reading about the organization’s need for a new location last December, Robert Pierce of R.A. Pierce Excavating offered land he owns at […]

FALMOUTH — The two town committees working on recommendations for pets on public lands will present proposed restrictions at a June 27 public forum. Ted Asherman, chairman of the Land Management and Acquisitions Committee, said the proposals are a response to what was heard in a January public forum. LMAC, along with the Parks and Community Programs […]

CUMBERLAND — The town’s fifth police chief, Charles “Chip” Rumsey, was sworn in at Monday’s Town Council meeting. Rumsey was most recently deputy chief of the Waterville Police Department, where he spent the past 21 years. He replaces Joe Charron, who retired as chief April 1 after 34 years in Cumberland. Rumsey’s annual salary is $90,000. He […]

FREEPORT — Traumatic car accidents are usually life-altering in a bad way. Sakerian Morris’ experience led to his life’s purpose. The Freeport High School senior, who will graduate with the Class of 2016 Sunday, June 12, at Merrill Auditorium in Portland, was involved in a car accident when he was 10 years old. He was thrown from […]