After landing a 9.09-pound, 31-inch-long togue on Saturday, Michael Hemingway, of Turner, stunned the crowd by winning a drawing among successful fish-catchers for a snowmobile. On Tuesday, he stunned people again when he gave away both the snowmobile and the 16-foot boat and trailer he won for the derby. Hemingway gave the boat, valued at […]
2006
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Fresh Air cutline
More than 200 Fresh Air Fund volunteers, including Suzanne Barr, Scarborough chair; Dawn Hansen, fund representative of Southern Maine, and Mark Hansen, Kennebunk chair, gathered recently in New York City for the fund’s 2006 Friendly Town Conference. The Fresh Air Fund, an independent, non-profit agency, has provided summer vacations to more than 1.7 million New […]
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Vodnick named to dean's
Karissa Vodnick of Scarborough has been named to the St. Olaf College dean’s list for the fall semester. Vodnick is a St. Olaf senior.
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Supper at First United
The First United Methodist Church in South Portland will hold a bean supper from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. March 11. Tickets cost $6 for adults and $3 for children. The church is located at 179 Ridgeland Ave. For more information, call 767-2688.
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Library hosts book discussion
Join a group of adults at the South Portland Branch Library to discuss Gary Schmidt’s “Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy,” a novel rich in description and character development. This award-winning novel for young adults is set in 1912 at the time of the destruction of the Malaga Island community near Phippsburg. The impoverished island […]
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Current Affairs
Anyone who drives south on Route 1 towards Dunstan is aware of the Scarborough salt marsh – that great expanse of swaying grasses and twisting tidal creeks that stretches for miles between fresh water and the salty ocean. Many of us know the Eastern Trail, which crosses the marsh on an old railroad bed and […]
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Finding relief with Reliv
Info box: For more information about Reliv, or to attend a seminar contact [email protected]. In the beginning, she couldn’t sleep. Then she couldn’t eat. There were migraines and backaches and sick days galore. Cape Elizabeth resident Janet Brown was sick. But she didn’t know why. After undergoing what Brown describes as “every test known to […]
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Slow start dooms Capers
In one locker room there was laughter and loud music, yelling and high-fiving – all of the things expected from a team that had just beaten its rival in the biggest game of the season. A few feet away, in the neighboring space, the sounds – particularly the words of the coach, the words that […]
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Scarborough Republican Caucus on Saturday
The Scarborough Republicans will hold their caucus this Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. at the Town Hall. The three Republican gubernatorial candidates are expected to attend: David Emory, Peter Mills and Chandler Woodcock. Many local candidates also are expected to attend including: Darlene Curley, who is running for Congress; Sylvia Most, who is running for […]
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Scarborough Republican Caucus on Saturday
The Scarborough Republicans will hold their caucus this Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. at the Town Hall. The three Republican gubernatorial candidates are expected to attend: David Emory, Peter Mills and Chandler Woodcock. Many local candidates also are expected to attend including: Darlene Curley, who is running for Congress; Sylvia Most, who is running for […]