FREEPORT — The items auctioned this year to support the Port Teen Center may not lead to prettier sitting, but they could make for colorful paddling. For three years, students, parents and community members have hand-painted donated chairs then sold to the highest bidder as part of the Sitting Pretty annual auction held at the […]

YARMOUTH — Ensuring the Yarmouth School District could fund all-day kindergarten classes has been a goal for Superintendent Judy Paolucci since budget deliberations began this year. As the School Committee prepared to vote on the $20.16 million fiscal year 2013 budget, Paolucci’s goal was met much like a hair stylist trimming a bit here and […]

PORTLAND — Motorists in Portland should prepare for some delays this summer as the Maine Department of Transportation continues its bridge rehabilitation project along I-295. On Tuesday the department unveiled its plans for a $7.9 million dollar bridge rehabilitation projects spanning several miles of I-295 scheduled to start in April. The plan, which came in just […]

PORTLAND — The process of hammering out a 2013 school budget began in earnest Tuesday night as Superintendent James Morse presented a proposed budget of nearly $95 million, up 3.71 percent from 2012, to the school board at Casco Bay High School. The board accepted Morse’s proposal, sending the preliminary budget figures to their finance […]

CUMBERLAND — The deadline to submit names for engraving on a veterans monument at Moss Side Cemetery is just around the corner. The three-stone monument, to be dedicated this Memorial Day, recognizes “all Cumberland residents who have served our country in times of war and peace.” The black granite stones will be inscribed with names of […]