Towns save through recycling

The municipalities of Cape Elizabeth, Scarborough, and South Portland avoided paying $1,039,632 in waste disposal costs over 12 months due to recycling, ecomaine said in a press release.

From July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011, Cape Elizabeth, which had a recycling rate of 33 percent, avoided costs of $111,056. In the same period, Scarborough had a recycling rate of 34 percent and avoided costs of $240,504, and South Portland, with a recycling rate of 28 percent, avoided costs of $216,568. Portland had a recycling rate of 35 percent and avoided costs of $471,504.

All four municipalities are owners of ecomaine, the nonprofit entity that handles both their disposal and recycling.

Local students honored

A number of local students were honored for their academic work recently.

Fairfield University has announced that the following students have been named to the dean’s list for the spring 2011 semester: Corie E. Hutter, a resident of Scarborough, a junior studying in the College of Arts and Sciences; Julie A. Passarelli, a resident of Scarborough, a sophomore studying in the College of Arts and Sciences; and Daniel C. Jones, a resident of South Portland, a sophomore studying in the College of Arts and Sciences.

The following students were named to the dean’s list for the 2011 spring semester at Mount Ida College in Newton, Mass.: Carlen Bufo, a resident of Scarborough; and Amelia Bothel, a resident of Cape Elizabeth.

Rotary seeks exchange candidates

The Rotary Club of Breakwater Daybreak, South Portland-Cape Elizabeth, is looking for candidates to apply as a member of a Group Study Exchange Team that will spend four weeks starting May 2012 in Hamburg, Germany, studying the host country institutions, economy, culture, and observing how their professions are practiced abroad.

Rotary’s Group Study Exchange is a unique opportunity for young men and women, age 25-40, in the early stages of their business or professional careers to travel abroad and to share vocational information with their peers in another county.

Candidates must live or work in the area roughly bounded by Damariscotta to Fryeburg and Dover, N.H., to Newburyport, Mass. They cannot be Rotarians, nor children or spouses of Rotarians. Rotary pays the travel costs, and arranges all the logistics for Team Members including lodging with local hosts.

Applications must be submitted to the Rotary Club by Sept. 15. Contact Club President Michael Hulsey at 240-1983, or go to www.breakwater-rotary.org.

Nomination papers available in Scarborough

Nomination papers are now available for those Scarborough residents who are interested in running for the Town Council, the Board of Education and the Scarborough Sanitary District

Three town council seats are up for election for three-year terms. The seats available are now occupied by Ronald Ahlquist, Karen D’Andrea and Richard Sullivan Jr.

On the Board of Education, two three-year terms are available, those now occupied by Christopher Brownsey and Colleen Staszko.

Sanitary District seats now occupied by Charles Andreson, Jason Greenleaf and Robert McSorley are available for three-year terms.

The deadline for turning in papers is Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011, before the close of business, 6:30 p.m. For more information, call the Town Clerk’s Office at 730-4020.

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