Arrests 1/26 at 9:21 a.m. Timothy Scott O’Hara, 49, of Mallard Lane, Freeport, was arrested by Officer Brandon Paxton on Main Street on a charge of operating under the influence. 1/26 at 6:50 p.m. Jonathan J. Brennan, 21, of Bing Moore Road, Bowdoin, was arrested by Officer Edward Yurek on Theodore Drive on a warrant. […]
February 2012
Posted inForecaster Sports, The Forecaster
Second half surge leads Deering past SP
With the game tied 24-24 at halftime, the Deering boys’ basketball team came out swarming on defense and running the court in the second half to pull away from visiting South Portland Red Riots and win, 49-38, Tuesday evening. Senior guard Jon Amabile led his team to victory with a monster game, pouring in 27 […]
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After 50 years, Rotary will have to wait two more weeks for South Portland Winter Festival
SOUTH PORTLAND – Last summer, when the South Portland-Cape Elizabeth Rotary Club decided to celebrate its 50th birthday by sponsoring the city’s first-ever Winter Festival, it seemed like a brilliant idea. That’s because, last summer, everyone presumed we would have a winter. As it turns out, the two-day event, originally scheduled for this weekend, has […]
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Portland will order Occupy protesters to vacate
Earlier today, a judge ruled that allowing Occupy Maine to stay in Lincoln Park would conflict with other people’s right to use it.
Posted inCurrent, The Forecaster
Hedging on Haigis Parkway
SCARBOROUGH – At a special meeting Jan. 25 called with the 15 landowners within the Haigis Parkway zoning district, members of the town’s Long-Range Planning Committee announced their intent to relax rules on allowable development. Gone was the vision of so-called “campus-style” construction, limited to professional offices, convention centers, hotels and high-tech industry. In its […]
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Brennan, LePage make little progress in budget talks
The Portland mayor offered ways to reduce the state’s deficit without cutting Medicaid coverage for 65,000 Mainers, but LePage didn’t seem to embrace Brennan’s ideas.
Posted inCurrent, Southern Forecaster
LOOKING BACK – Issue of Jan. 31, 2002
(Editor’s note: Looking Back is a weekly column including news items reported 10 years ago in The Current, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in September 2011.) Issue of Jan. 31, 2002 Managing traffic generated by a proposed Great American Neighborhood in Dunstan village is the biggest hurdle facing the project’s approval. The traffic problem was […]
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LOOKING BACK – Issue of Jan. 31, 2002
(Editor’s note: Looking Back is a weekly column including news items reported 10 years ago in The Current, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in September 2011.) Issue of Jan. 31, 2002 Managing traffic generated by a proposed Great American Neighborhood in Dunstan village is the biggest hurdle facing the project’s approval. The traffic problem was […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly
EDITORIAL – Time to revamp teen driving rules
Remember how nerve-wracking it was on the day of your driver’s license exam, wondering if you were going to go in the correct lane, signal properly and nail the parallel-parking test? If you were asked to complete that same test six months or a year later, after a few more miles on the road, you […]
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Oak Hill housing plan raises traffic concerns in Scarborough
SCARBOROUGH – More than a dozen residents, including one town councilor, rose at the Jan. 30 meeting of the Scarborough Planning Board to decry an 81-unit senior housing complex, which they say will overcrowd an Oak Hill intersection that’s dangerous enough as it is. Wegman Companies, a 35-year-old firm based in Rochester, N.Y., operates 14 […]