Brunswick rec offering youth volleyball The Brunswick Recreation Department and the Mid-Coast Junior Volleyball Club are conducting a four-week co-ed youth league in Brunswick on Monday and Wednesday afternoons, from mid- March until April school vacation. FMI, brunswickme.org/parkrec/programs/Spring/youthvolleyballspring.pdf. Shamrock Sprint upcoming A 5K Shamrock Sprint road race for Morse High School’s Project Graduation will be […]
March 2010
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Maine’s public records should remain public
With access to the Internet and scores of ways to find others’ personal information, restricting access to birth and marriage licenses is not the way to prevent fraud and identity theft. The Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee recently heard from Christine Zukas-Lessard of the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on L.D. 1781, […]
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Hebb could be Roy winner
Travis Roy Award finalist Rick Hebb of Thornton Academy skates during the season, which saw the Golden Trojans make it to the Western Maine Class A title game for the first time in school history. (DAN HICKLING/Journal Tribune)
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Hebb could be Roy winner
BIDDEFORD — While Biddeford continues to savor its newly won Class-A state championship, the final wrap will be put on the high school hockey season with a pair of weekend events. On Saturday (6:30 p.m.), the state’s top seniors will take to the Family Ice Center in Falmouth for the annual East-West Senior All-Star Game. […]
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Rescued porpoises rehabilitate at UNE
University of New England student and swim team co-captain Morgan Lawless spends time in a tank Thursday with one of two porpoises rescued by the Biddeford university’s marine rehabilitation team. Lawless encouraged fellow teammates to volunteer to work with the animals. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)
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Rescued porpoises rehabilitate at UNE
BIDDEFORD — The last time the University of New England’s Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center was home to a rescued porpoise was in 2004. Now it is in the unusual position of having two, along with a full house of harp seals and sea turtles. The MARC staff, students and volunteers are working with the porpoises […]
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Smith done at McAuley
PORTLAND—Catherine McAuley High School girls’ varsity basketball coach Wil Smith has stepped down after four seasons. Smith, who was involved with the Lions program for nearly a decade, felt the timing was right and stressed the desire to spend more time with family. “It was just time,” he said. “I’ve been there nine years. It […]
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Cape Elizabeth Police Beat: March 11
Arrests 3/4 at 5:30 p.m. Mary Elise Robichaud, 40, of Meadow Way, was arrested by Officer Rory Diffin at Cumberland Farms on a charge of operating after habitual offender revocation, two prior operating under the influence charges. Summonses 3/4 at 8:23 p.m. John Chambers, 18, of South Portland, was summonsed by Sgt. Andy Steindl on […]
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Cape Elizabeth teachers offer salary cut to help balance budget
CAPE ELIZABETH — The teachers union on March 9 announced its members are willing to work a day without pay as a way to help bridge a budget gap that could otherwise require elimination of more than a dozen jobs. Dwight Ely, president of the Cape Elizabeth Education Association, said the union would take the […]
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Cape Elizabeth council accepts flat municipal budget
CAPE ELIZABETH — Town Manager Michael McGovern presented an $8.5 million proposed budget for fiscal year 2011 to the Town Council Monday night with no tax increases, no spending increases and no reductions in service. “We must be the envy of a lot of other communities,” he said. In addition to holding the line on taxes, […]