SCARBOROUGH – In politics, consensus is everything. That’s true whether the deliberative body in question is the U. S. Senate or a small-town selectboard. And, sometimes, all it takes is a single word to bring everybody happily into line. Scarborough Town Councilors found that out recently when they turned to consider an energy plan that, […]
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Scarborough OKs energy plan
SCARBOROUGH – In politics, consensus is everything. That’s true whether the deliberative body in question is the U. S. Senate or a small-town selectboard. And, sometimes, all it takes is a single word to bring everybody happily into line. Scarborough Town Councilors found that out recently when they turned to consider an energy plan that, […]
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Scarborough OKs energy plan
SCARBOROUGH – In politics, consensus is everything. That’s true whether the deliberative body in question is the U. S. Senate or a small-town selectboard. And, sometimes, all it takes is a single word to bring everybody happily into line. Scarborough Town Councilors found that out recently when they turned to consider an energy plan that, […]
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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard improvement plan mandated
The 2012 Defense Authorization Act requires the Navy to submit modernization plans by early next year.
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Voters oust incumbent Yarmouth town councilor, OK school budget
YARMOUTH — In an election that attracted about 14 percent of registered voters, residents on Tuesday elected three fresh faces to the Town Council. Incumbent Judiann Smith will serve another three-year term on the School Committee with newcomer Margaret Groban. Newcomer Susan Bogle Krauss will join incumbent and longtime Trustee Irving Felker Jr. on the […]
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POLITICS AND OTHER MISTAKES – Big man got the money
Until now, being state treasurer was like being a septic tank. Both attract attention only when something goes wrong. For instance, Democrat Sam Shapiro, who held the treasurer’s job from 1980 to 1997, began giving off an offensive odor in 1992, after it was discovered he was operating a political action committee that solicited contributions […]
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Scarborough third-graders now published authors
SCARBOROUGH – They say everyone has at least one book inside them. If that’s true, one group of young authors got an early start on their publishing careers. Students in Holly Merrow’s third-grade class at Wentworth Intermediate School in Scarborough have produced a 48-page book, “Life in Our Salt Marsh,” all about the birds, mammals, […]
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Voters in Freeport-Pownal-Durham district reject $3M for athletics complex, OK school budget
$24M school budget is approved FREEPORT — Voters in Freeport, Durham and Pownal passed the Regional School Unit 5 budget Tuesday night, but defeated a nearly $3 million bond for an athletics complex. Both decisions were made along community lines, illustrating the divide between voters in Freeport and the two other towns. The $23.9 million […]
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Scarborough High grads told to 'Go big or go home'
PORTLAND – Alexander Colville, valedictorian of the Scarborough High School class of 2011 suffered a “horrible” ski crash this past winter. However, he dragged himself into convalescence for one reason, and one alone, he told his peers Sunday, during graduation ceremonies at the Cumberland County Civic Center. “I really strove to rise from the ashes […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE – Know what you drive
I know I’m not the first person to say something like this, but regardless: “Things were simpler when I was a kid in the 1950s and ’60s.” There, I’ve said it again, anyway. A reminder of how simple things were occurred to me the other day as I sat in the car waiting for my […]