PORTLAND — Less than a week after nomination petitions became available, new and familiar candidates are lining up to represent the city in the Maine Senate. On Monday, City Councilor Jill Duson said she is running in Senate District 28, which includes the western part of the city and a portion of Westbrook. The seat is […]
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Cumberland to partner with Gray for assessing
CUMBERLAND — The town is discontinuing its agreement with Cumberland County for assessing services, opting instead to partner with Gray. The Town Council on Dec. 28 unanimously supported the break with the county, with no discussion before the vote. The Gray Town Council was scheduled to vote on the agreement Tuesday, Jan. 5. The county […]
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Topsham school bus driver gets award for literacy program
TOPSHAM — Don Sanders started his Bus Book Bags program in October 2014 as a way to boost reading by students he drove to and from school. The 10-book project has now spread to 90 books and other buses, and expanded from a local effort to a widely praised initiative, and has earned Sanders the […]
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Fixed base operator Northeast Air launching $3.5M expansion at Portland Jetport
PORTLAND — For nearly half a century, fixed base operator Northeast Air has been firmly rooted in the day-to-day life of the Portland Jetport. “We touch nearly every plane that comes in or goes out,” Northeast Air Vice President and General Manager Mark Goodwin said last week, as he talked about the fueling and de-icing […]
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North Yarmouth Historical Society seeks new space
NORTH YARMOUTH — The stewards of the town’s history have an eye on the future – in particular a significantly larger space for storing and displaying North Yarmouth Historical Society archives. The private NYHS has for several decades been housed at 463 Walnut Hill Road, sharing a building with the town’s Fire-Rescue Department and a Cumberland County Sheriff’s […]
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Parkinson’s patients find new source of confidence at Freeport YMCA
FREEPORT — With a wide range of offerings, staffers at the Casco Bay branch of the YMCA thought for the most part that members’ needs were being met. But member Dick Webster saw people who needed help. With his guidance, the branch’s first class for people with Parkinson’s disease was created. Parkinson’s is a disorder of […]
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Baxter Academy looking for larger Portland space
PORTLAND — The city’s first charter school could be moving to a new location in the next few years. Michele LaForge, head of school for the Baxter Academy for Science and Technology, said the building at 54 York St. is too small to accommodate the school’s students and faculty. The school also leases space in […]
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Former Maine Senate Majority Leader Nancy Randall Clark of Freeport dies at 77
FREEPORT — Nancy Randall Clark, a community leader for decades and the first woman to serve as Maine Senate majority leader, died late Monday night, Dec. 28, at her home on Randall Road in South Freeport. She was 77. Her longtime caretaker, Tamantha Wilson, was with her. The Rev. David Bowling of the South Freeport Congregational […]
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Fire code is latest battleground in South Portland propane depot fight
SOUTH PORTLAND — City councilors at Monday night’s workshop sparred over changes proposed to the city’s fire code that would more tightly regulate and limit the storage and distribution of liquefied petroleum gas. Councilors discussed amendments to Chapter 8 of the Fire Prevention and Protection Code that, among other things, would allow no new propane facilities […]
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Winter moves in, South Portland campers move out
Carrie Artiss, left, and Paul Pogue make their way down Broadway in South Portland during the season’s first snowstorm on Tuesday, Dec. 29. Artiss said the two spent spent the last month camping in the woods in South Portland and were moving on their bicycles to Houlton, which is near the Canadian border. (Melanie Sochan […]