CAPE ELIZABETH — With nomination papers due at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, time is almost up for candidates hoping to be on the Nov. 4 town ballot. Two Town Council seats and two on the School Board are up for election this year. As of Thursday, enough candidates had filed to fill each position, […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — The City Council Wednesday repealed a superfluous moratorium on tar sands development in the city, and tabled action on amending the city’s waste collection system to include some condominiums and apartment buildings.  Although councilors previously passed a first reading of the waste collection changes, a handful of residents of smaller condominiums and apartment […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Republican candidates in state House District 31 and District 32 have withdrawn, leaving the districts’ incumbent Democratic representatives unopposed in the Nov. 4 election. Stephen Popp on Wednesday said has withdrawn his candidacy in District 31. State election officials in Augusta said they received his official withdrawal on Thursday.  Popp declined to disclose […]

SCARBOROUGH — All sitting councilors and board members are seeking re-election in November. There are four challengers for three Town Council seats. Barring write-ins, two School Board incumbents will be unopposed. Candidates had until Wednesday, Sept. 3, to file nomination papers for seats on the Town Council, School Board and Sanitary District Board of Trustees. Council […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — The town will use a $16,500 grant to conduct a storm-water study recommended in the Town Center Plan. The town was awarded the grant Aug. 12 by the Maine Department of Agriculture, Wildlife, and Forestry through the Municipal Planning Assistance Program. The 1995 plan to create a storm-water management study was recently updated […]

SCARBOROUGH — Planning Board members and residents are still hesitant to adopt a zoning ordinance that would allow more cellular phone towers. The Town Council held a workshop Wednesday with two members of the Planning Board to discuss Town Planner Dan Bacon’s proposed tweaks to the ordinance, which would permit wireless towers in densely populated rural farming and […]

SCARBOROUGH — Voters on Nov. 4 will decide bond referendums to fund revaluation of the town and acquisition of a new fire truck. Town councilors voted unanimously in favor of putting both items on the ballot in their meeting Wednesday. The fire truck would require borrowing $585,000 to replace a nearly 25-year-old truck at the Pleasant […]