GORHAM — Maine manufacturers have faced many challenges over the past two years, from the pandemic to workforce shortages to supply chain issues. To combat those challenges, Maine MEP (Manufacturing Extension Partnership) encourages its clients to join forces and seek new collaborative opportunities. When Maine MEP brought together innovative small businesses Flowfold in Gorham and […]
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Scarborough students achieve honors, graduate
Ella M. Reagan of Scarborough a Fairfield University student, received Deans List Honors for the Spring 2022 semester. Justin Lindsay from Scarborough graduated Magna cum Laude from Ithaca College with a BM in Sound Recording Technology. The following students have been named to the Dean’s List at the University of New Hampshire for the spring […]
Applications are open for NVME online entrepreneurship training
New Ventures Maine (NVME) has an open call for Venturing Forth: Business Planning for Entrepreneurs, a tuition-free, comprehensive, online course starting Aug. 23. For new entrepreneurs or existing business owners, Venturing Forth helps participants create a written business plan from start to finish with feedback from facilitators and fellow entrepreneurs. The 14-week course covers topics […]
Travis Mills Foundation to host first open house of 2022
The public is welcomed to attend the first open house of 2022 at the Travis Mills Foundation Veterans Retreat, located in Rome, Maine from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6. The event includes tours of the main Retreat building, the newly renovated Marbury House from the original Elizabeth Arden estate, which now serves […]
Goodwill’s new neurorehabilitation clinical director focuses on how technology and counseling support brain injury
SCARBOROUGH — Mackenna Murtagh, Psy.D, has joined Goodwill NeuroRehab as clinical director starting July 1. Murtagh was Goodwill’s neuropsychology post-doctoral resident, and is excited to lead Goodwill’s two brain injury clinics in Scarborough and Lewiston where staff help people get back to life after a brain injury such as a stroke or car accident. Murtagh […]
Scarborough Police invites public to discuss homeless issue
SCARBOROUGH — Homelessness in Scarborough will be the discussion at the Scarborough Police Department’s next community conversation. The public is invited to the discussion “Putting the Pieces together” at the Public Safety Building at 275 U.S. Route 1 on Wednesday, July 13 at 5 p.m. Community Policing Sgt. Steve Thibodeau and Social Services Navigator Lauren […]
“Christmas in July” Set for Scarborough, Cape Elizabeth, and South Portland to help new Mainers, veterans, homeless
SCARBOROUGH — The middle of the summer is hardly the time you’d expect to find Christmas trees in the churches of St. John Paul II Parish, but this year, in an effort to help new arrivals to Maine, the homeless, and veterans, they stand adorned with tags of generosity in the narthex of each. “The […]
Scarborough residents graduate and receive honors
Catherine Taylor, of Scarborough received a bachelor of arts degree Cum Laude from College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Eric Michael Huber of Scarborough was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, on May 22. Huber majored in Computer Science and Economics. Local sutdents making the spring […]
Compassus names Maine hospice program of the year
SCARBOROUGH — The Compassus hospice program serving Scarborough has earned the organization’s distinguished title of Hospice Program of the Year. The Maine program outperformed its peers throughout the country in six Pillars of Success categories including regulatory compliance, culture, quality care, service excellence, expanding access to service and fiscal responsibility. Compassus established its Pillars of […]
Joseph Klenk – A life of service, community involvement, family and friendships
Joe Klenk, received a Lifetime Achievement Award through Maine Health Care Association’s Remember Me program at the Augusta Civic Center June 1. Klenk, a resident of Enclave of Scarborough, and several others across the state of Maine were given this prestigious honor to recognize them for their service to their country and their communities. Joe […]