BRUNSWICK — The Town Council, after pushback from the School Board, restored $85,000 to the School Department budget before approving a $61.5 million fiscal year 2017 town budget. The reversal on the $85,000 reduction came Thursday, May 26, the night after two School Board members threatened to oppose the upcoming school budget referendum unless the money was […]
Forecaster News
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Rockland company to remove Harpswell pump house for $75K
HARPSWELL — The task of removing a collapsed pump house from the pier at Mitchell Field will go to the Prock Marine Co. of Rockland. The Board of Selectmen chose the company’s bid, at a cost of $75,000, at a May 25 meeting. Prock’s was one of four bids submitted to the town. It was the […]
advertisement
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
RSU 1 budget gets 1st approval in Bath meeting
BATH — In the course of about 50 minutes Tuesday, 50 registered voters approved a $28.3 million budget for next year in Regional School Unit 1. The district budget meeting, held at Bath Middle School, elicited few comments from the public. It will be followed by a budget validation referendum on the spending plan for […]
Posted inSouthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Cape Elizabeth hires interim school chief from Mount Desert Island
CAPE ELIZABETH — Howard Colter, longtime superintendent in the Mount Desert Island Regional School System, has been chosen as interim superintendent of schools. The School Board approved Colter’s contract Tuesday. He will earn $125,000 and will start on July 1. His appointment runs through June 30, 2017. Elizabeth Scifres, chairwoman of the School Board, said this […]
Posted inSouthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Election 2016: Cape Elizabeth weighs Recycling Center renovations, school budget
CAPE ELIZABETH — Voters on June 14 will decide whether to authorize $1.4 million for upgrades to the Recycling Center. The proposed school budget of $24.3 million is also going to referendum. The Town Council in February approved the plan to upgrade the Recycling Center, but it must be approved by voters because, under the Town Charter, […]
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Topsham meeting advances $37.6M budget for SAD 75
TOPSHAM — Approximately 40 voters from the four towns in School Administrative District 75 approved a $37.6 million district budget May 26. The district budget meeting, held at the Orion Performing Arts Center, was the first in a two-step public approval process. Next year’s spending plan must also be ratified in a budget validation referendum […]
Posted inThe Forecaster
Making sure his South Portland garden grows
Harry Duffy, 5, waters strawberry plants in his family’s garden plot at the South Portland community garden in Hinckley Park on Tuesday, May 31. Harry was working in the garden with his mother, Jessica Duffy, who said they are also growing peas, carrots, beans, tomatoes, lavender, melon, zucchini and cucumbers. (Melanie Sochan / For The […]
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Falmouth library hits midway point in funding for expansion
FALMOUTH — When residents overwhelmingly approved a bond to expand Falmouth Memorial Library in 2014, it was with the understanding that half the $5.62 million cost would be raised by the library. On June 12, library staff and board members will stop private solicitations and open the fundraising campaign to the public. But the project […]
Posted inPortland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Management firm changing ‘boots’ as Portland studies parking
PORTLAND — A private parking lot management company whose practice of “booting” violators created a torrent of criticism and poor publicity last year will soon amend the policy. “For paying customers, there will not be an immediate boot placed on the vehicle,” Asher Chappell, a manager and partner at Unified Parking Partners, said Tuesday. “Nonpaying customers will […]
Posted inThe Forecaster
Misty Memorial Day in Brunswick, Topsham
Louis Larios, a Vietnam veteran and American Legion Post 202 member, led the 2106 Memorial Day Parade Monday, May 30, in Topsham and Brunswick. While many other parades in Maine were cancelled due to expected bad weather, the Topsham-Brunswick parade went off as planned following a few light showers in the morning. (Roger S. Duncan […]