SCARBOROUGH — An ad-hoc committee considering conservation and animal control issues has three meetings scheduled in the next 10 days. The committee is drafting a report to the Town Council that could influence Animal Control Ordinance revisions to be enacted by April 1. Its meetings at Town Hall on Jan. 6, 9 and 13 begin […]
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SMCC to host small business conference
SOUTH PORTLAND — Registrations are being accepted for a Jan. 31 conference at Southern Maine Community College on fostering small business growth. The Launch or Grow Small Business Success Conference will be held at the college Entrepreneurial Center. It will feature workshops for owners hoping to grow their businesses, and people looking to start a […]
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Dunkin' Donuts developers buy South Portland church; lease of city land still possible
SOUTH PORTLAND — A Methuen, Mass., company that has Dunkin’ Donuts franchises throughout New England and upstate New York completed its purchase of St. John the Evangelist Church on Dec. 11. But the future of the 611 Main St. church remains uncertain. The company has not applied for a demolition permit, and Assistant City Manager […]
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Scarborough tax appeals scheduled to resume
SCARBOROUGH — The last of a months-long series of appeals on 2012 waterfront property revaluations will be take place Tuesday, Jan. 6, at 6:30 p.m. Attorney Jon Block, representing 10 Prout’s Neck property owners, will appeal land assessments made by former Town Assessor Paul Lesperance, arguing the land value increases of as much as 15 percent […]
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Brunswick foundation supports school programs
BRUNSWICK — A foundation that has been several years in the making aims to provide public schools $50,000 a year for special programming. But the new Brunswick Community Education Foundation has to raise that money before it issues any grants to teacher-led programs this fall. Melissa Fochesato, the foundation’s chairwoman, said her group is only […]
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High hopes as South Portland High School addition opens
SOUTH PORTLAND — Physics teacher Ralph Newell sees great possibilities when classes resume Jan. 6 at South Portland High School. “I’m going from the bottom to the top in one move. It only took me 47 years,” Newell said Monday, a week before classes shift from the aging “north annex” to a three-story addition that […]
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Storyteller McDonald to mix humor, history in Cape Elizabeth
CAPE ELIZABETH — John McDonald is a humorist, storyteller and author. He is not an historian. “The best part about being a storyteller is you’re not judged by the same factual standards as an historian,” he said. So when the Cape Elizabeth Historical Preservation Society hosts McDonald at Thomas Memorial Library on Jan. 6 at […]
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Volunteers give Brunswick animal shelter a makeover
BRUNSWICK — In lieu of a company Christmas party, a Portland business owner this week donated more than $30,000 worth of renovations to the Coastal Humane Society. The work Monday and Tuesday by Hardypond Construction took place throughout the animal shelter’s 30 Range Road facility. Shelter leaders said the work will be a “Band-Aid” as they […]
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Harpswell charter school gets more time to weigh building options
HARPSWELL — Harpswell Coastal Academy needs more time to decide whether to extend its lease of the former West Harpswell School, purchase the building, or find another home. Under the charter school’s one-year, $20,000 lease, which expires next July, the town agreed not to market the school building to anyone else until after Dec. 31. But […]
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Soil contamination delays purchase of Harpswell waterfront property
HARPSWELL — The town’s planned $85,000 purchase of waterfront property is being delayed, in part because of evidence the soil is contaminated. The Board of Selectmen on Monday agreed with Dain Allen, owner of the nearly 6,000-square-foot property, to extend the closing deadline to Jan. 30, 2014. The purchase was approved by voters in November. […]