BATH — A proposed $28.35 million spending plan for fiscal 2015 goes before Regional School Unit 1 voters at a district budget meeting Tuesday, May 27. Two weeks later, the budget – supported unanimously May 5 by the RSU 1 Board of Directors – goes to a final validation referendum on Tuesday, June 10. Total spending is […]
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Cumberland Girl Scouts to staff food truck on Memorial Day
CUMBERLAND — Girl Scouts will staff a Good Shepherd food truck during Memorial Day activities on Monday, May 26. The four Troop No. 106 scouts – Kallee Gallant, Molly Horton, Grace Mongeau and Allison Richards – have been working with the town’s community food pantry on Surplus 2 Supper, their Silver Project, according to an […]
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SAD 51 election draws 5 from Cumberland for 3 seats
CUMBERLAND — The three seats up for grabs June 10 on the School Administrative District 51 Board of Directors have attracted five candidates. Bob Vail created one vacancy when he decided not to seek re-election after 15 years on the board. Members John Simpson of Island View Drive and Pete Wilson of Oak Ridge Road […]
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Portland Memorial Day parade set for May 26
PORTLAND — The annual Memorial Day parade and commemoration ceremony is scheduled to being at 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 26. Organized by the American Legion Harold T. Andrews Post No. 17, the parade will begin at Longfellow Square at State and Congress streets and march east along Congress Street to Monument Square. The parade will […]
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Despite pleas, N.H. bear feedings persist
Two bears had to be killed after they got so used to human food that they were breaking into cars and garages.
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North Yarmouth Fire Rescue offers week-long EMS events
NORTH YARMOUTH — The town’s Fire Rescue Department will host EMS week Monday-Saturday, May 19-24. The department at 463 Walnut Hill Road will host an open house from 5-7:30 p.m. Monday. A paramedic talk on cardiac arrest warning signs will be held Tuesday from 6:30-7:30 p.m., and nutritionist Kristin Perry will give a talk from […]
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Perched above Portland: Fundraising event goes over the edge
Meredith Yasek, of New York, and friend David Whiston, of Portland, rappel down One City Center on Saturday during a fundraising event for Rippleffect, an outdoor leadership organization for kids. About 80 people rappelled 12 stories, or 180 feet, to Federal Street.
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More than 150 schools drop a letter grade on Maine education report card
AUGUSTA — Ninety-three of the 536 Maine schools that received a Department of Education-issued report card this week improved at least one letter grade over last year, according to a statement released by the department on May 15. Data shared by the department showed that 155 schools dropped at least one letter grade, meaning more […]
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Political leaders seek resignation of N.H. police commissioner
They join Wolfeboro residents in calling for Robert Copeland to step down.
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Slideshow: Photos from the Nova Star’s maiden voyage
The new ferry service completed its first passage from Portland to Nova Scotia Friday morning.