– MEREDITH GOAD Staff Writer Clark Frasier and Mark Gaier, the chef/owners of Arrows Restaurant in Ogunquit, were nominated Monday for the “Best Chef: Northeast” award from the James Beard Foundation. It’s the chefs’ seventh nomination, but they have never won. They were the only Maine chefs to be nominated for the honor this year, […]

He has no choice but to sell the overhaul to people who remain skeptical, as midterm elections near.

– JOHN RICHARDSON Staff Writer Terri Grover of Portland watched from her home Sunday night as Congress finally passed health-care reform legislation. She didn’t realize that her 22-year-old daughter, a senior at Bates College, was glued to the television, too. “My daughter called from college last night at 10:45 and said, ‘They passed it, they […]

SOUTH PORTLAND Budget plan would raise taxes, cut 32.75 positions The $77.9 million city budget proposed for 2010-11 calls for 2.5 percent less spending than this fiscal year but would require a 1.3 percent increase in the property tax rate. Under the proposal submitted by City Manager James Gailey, the property tax rate is projected […]