PORTLAND — The holiday season is already proving more challenging than usual for the Salvation Army. Maj. Annette Lock said the number of donations the organization has received this year, and overall donor commitment towards the annual Thanksgiving food collection, is down from years past. The organization will be providing Thanksgiving baskets to just 100 families […]
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L.L. Bean helps light up the holidays in Freeport
Nathan and Wayne Lewis enjoy the sights and sounds of the annual “Northern Lights” tree-lighting at L.L. Bean in Freeport on Friday, Nov. 20. The town’s annual Sparkle Celebration events will be held Dec. 4-6.
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Portland panel sticks to Hall School plan as cost rises
PORTLAND — The committee tasked with overseeing reconstruction of the aging Fred P. Hall Elementary School is sticking to its original access plan. Replacing the aging school at 23 Orono Road is now expected to cost up to $28 million, or $8 million more than originally planned. The Hall School Building Committee originally recommended a […]
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Cumberland school principal resigns, assistant takes interim role
CUMBERLAND — One door is closing in the principal’s office at the Mabel I. Wilson Elementary School, and another is reopening. Karen Bubar has resigned as principal, effective the end of December, to take the same role the following month at Kennebunkport Consolidated School. The School Administrative District 51 Board of Directors on Nov. 16 […]
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Portland nonprofit sees family value in individual sobriety
PORTLAND — Julia Whyel recalled her first holiday gathering with her family after she became sober in 2011. “My family is in Seattle,” Whyel, 33, said Nov. 19 over coffee at Hilltop Coffee on Munjoy Hill. “For me, it was just such a relief that I could be who I wanted to be for my […]
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Board expected to OK Topsham high school reconstruction
TOPSHAM — School Administrative District directors were scheduled to vote Thursday, Nov. 19, on whether to rebuild Mt. Ararat High School in a new location, or renovate the existing building. District residents appear to be leaning toward building a new school on the existing campus, based on feedback at recent community forums and a vote […]
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Woman dies after being shot during Bath parking-lot gun sale
BATH — A Thomaston woman died overnight Wednesday after being shot in the head Monday afternoon in a supermarket parking lot. Chelsea Jones, 22, was shot by her fiance, Dylan Grubbs, 23, also of Thomaston, while she sat in the front passenger seat of an SUV, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland reported […]
Posted inSouthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Opponents want South Portland to revisit Knightville traffic
SOUTH PORTLAND — A group of Knightville residents and business owners claims the city withheld information from an advisory committee before deciding to keep one-way traffic on part of Ocean Street. The city changed the traffic pattern after completion of a $3 million sidewalk improvement and sewer separation project in 2012, making one block of Ocean Street one-way […]
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Cape Elizabeth plans upgrades to Scott Dyer, Shore roads
CAPE ELIZABETH — Town officials are working on a “complete streets” project that will bring improvements to Scott Dyer Road and Shore Road. Last month the Town Council approved an update to the town’s five-year roadway priorities plan after hearing a presentation from Public Works Director Bob Malley. The plan was first approved in 2013 and […]
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Scarborough adopts 'character-based' zoning at Higgins Beach
SCARBOROUGH — Town Councilors on Wedsnesday adopted new Higgins Beach zoning and building standards that will increase construction flexibility. Previously, homeowners wishing to build a new home or remodel would have to seek a variance through the Board of Appeals. The new character-based zoning districts and building codes eliminate that process to “enable additions, renovations and new construction,” […]