Varsity boys basketball Fri 12/08 @ South Portland 7 p.m. Tue 12/12 Thornton Academy 7 p.m. Sat 12/14 @ Sanford 7 p.m. Tue 12/16 @ Deering 7 p.m. Fri 12/19 Portland 7 p.m. Tue 12/22 @Scarborough 7 p.m. Tue1/02 Massabesic 7 p.m. Fri 1/05 @ Windham 7 p.m. Tue 1/09 Westbrook 7 p.m. Thu1/11 @ […]
2006
Posted inAmerican Journal, Southern Forecaster, Web
High school gets new resource officer
Westbrook High School is finally getting a new school resource officer after spending half the school year without one. Beginning Jan. 2, Westbrook patrolman James Farrenkopf will take over the full-time school resource officer position. Westbrook school officials are pleased to have the position filled, which has been vacant since former school resource officer Dan […]
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Posted inAmerican Journal
Downtown parking plan causes mixed emotions
The Westbrook City Council has approved a parking plan for the city to use as a guide in coming years to ease parking troubles in the downtown. The plan calls for a multi-phase approach that could include metered parking spots, a city employee hired to enforce ticketing, more public lots and possibly a parking garage. […]
Posted inCurrent, Southern Forecaster
Cape students take over the stage
The meeting was busy but efficient. All the last-minute questions were addressed: Who, exactly, will wear the giant chicken suit? Will the actual live chickens make the cut? Is someone baking the mini-blueberry muffins? For the Cape Elizabeth students in Monday’s meeting of the Theater Council, figuring out the logistics of handling live chickens during […]
Posted inCurrent, Southern Forecaster
Shannon, Mancini are Rotary honored students
Bryant Shannon, a senior at Scarborough High School, and Ryan Mancini, a Scarborough Middle School eighth-grader, have been honored by Scarborough Rotary Club’s Student of the Quarter program. Shannon was nominated by Carolyn Barstow, who noted Shannon was a tireless leader, worker and organizer in his role as president of the National Honor Society. “He […]
Posted inCurrent, Forecaster Sports
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Steve Card and his crew from Maine Turf and Greenery ready an Iron Mike pitching machine from a youth baseball field in Scarborough to the Libby-Mitchell Post 76 building in Scarborough. The Post membership this month voted to allow the Post baseball team, the 76ers, to build an adult-sized baseball field behind the Post building […]
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Local man, national profile: Military analyst talks terrorism at Scarborough library Sunday
Congratulate retired Army Col. David W. Hunt on his new contract with Fox News, and he’ll tell you his success rests mostly on ratings. “I’m not that important. I’m just a guy on TV three to five times week,” said Hunt Tuesday. Yet, with his nearly 30 years of experience in the U.S. Army, four […]
Posted inCurrent, Southern Forecaster
Local man, national profile: Military analyst talks terrorism at Scarborough library Sunday
Congratulate retired Army Col. David W. Hunt on his new contract with Fox News, and he’ll tell you his success rests mostly on ratings. “I’m not that important. I’m just a guy on TV three to five times week,” said Hunt Tuesday. Yet, with his nearly 30 years of experience in the U.S. Army, four […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
Rule changes could boost election costs
It could be tougher in the next gubernatorial race for outside groups to influence voters without triggering matching funds for their candidate’s publicly funded opponents under a proposed rule change being considered next week by the state’s ethics and elections commission. The proposed change also runs the risk of making gubernatorial races more expensive in […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
Investment will require cuts, more taxes, leadership
“Maine has had no shortage of thoughtful leaders and bold ideas on economic development over the years. However, the state has frequently failed to stick to and sustain its ideas, with the predictable result that it has undercut the effectiveness of numerous intelligent but under- or un-funded initiatives that might have otherwise made a larger […]