Scarborough Town Councilors should expect a crowd at their meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 18, when residents of Maple Avenue have been invited to say what, if anything, should be done about speeding traffic on their street. Maple Avenue has long been used as a cut through for commuters from Route 114 to Route 1, and residents say these motorists are speeding.

While the residents, with the help of the police department, have formed a citizen’s committee to address the problem, not everyone in the area known as Green Acres is in agreement about what should be done, or if anything should change.

Mary Angis of 61 Broadturn Road has what almost everyone agrees is a legitimate gripe about the proposed Great American Neighborhood.

Her home, which she has lived in for the past 15 years, is about as close as you can get to the entrance of the proposed development.

“I feel for you,” Town Councilor Mark Maroon told her at a recent meeting where the project was discussed.

Angis, a divorced mother of two who works as a dental hygienist in Buxton, has become a vocal opponent of the project proposed for 150 acres in Dunstan village.

At the past two meetings of the Scarborough Town Council, in particular, Angis has taken the opportunity to voice her concerns in regard to one of the biggest residential developments ever proposed for Southern Maine.

The U.S. Postal Service can’t say exactly when it plans to start construction of a $65 million mail-sorting center in Scarborough, but on Tuesday refuted a nagging rumor that the project will be moved to a New Hampshire location instead.

“That is not true,” Christine Dugas, a Postal Service spokesperson, said of the rumor that the plant may go to Newington,

N.H. “The project in Scarborough is proceeding exactly as it was expected to.”

At least nine local intersections have received a failing grade from area planners, who are asking the public what they think should be done about the ever growing traffic problem.

The Portland Area Corridor Transportation Committee (PACTS) has drafted a regional transportation plan that details necessary projects, new public transportation routes and other potential improvements to traffic flow in the communities around Portland.

Residents in Scarborough and Gorham are invited to hear about the plan at a meeting Tuesday, Dec. 17, at 7 p.m., in Scarborough Town Hall.

Intersections failing the PACTS survey in Scarborough are Route 1 at Payne Road (Dunstan corner), which has traffic over its planned capacity; Payne Road at Turnpike Exit 6, over capacity; Route 1 at Pleasant Hill Road, over capacity; and Route 22 at Route 114, at capacity.

In South Portland, failing intersections are Maine Mall Road at Western Avenue, over capacity; Route 77 at Broadway and Waterman Drive, over capacity; and Broadway at Westbrook Street, over capacity.

Specialist Isa Lomac-MacNair of Scarborough is serving in the U.S. Army, stationed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, working in military intelligence. She specializes in Russian and Serbo-Croatian languages and is taking a leadership course that will help in her promotion to the rank of sergeant, according to her father, Andrew Lomac-MacNair.

She attended Cape Elizabeth schools through ninth grade, because her father is a teacher at the Cape Elizabeth Middle School. She transferred to Scarborough High School and graduated from there in 1999.

A master plan for Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeht is expected to go to the Town Council early in 2003, laying out plans for a new playground near the Southwestern Preserve, an extension to the Cliff Walk, a tree-planting program, reconfiguring the Ship’s Cove parking lot for better safety and improvements to signs around the park.

Work began Nov. 29 on Portland Pipeline’s roughly $1.5 million dredging project, which will allow tankers with fuller, heavier cargoes to berth at the company’s South Portland pier. “ We don’t actually anticipate an increase in our volumes,” said Ralph Wink, director of engineering for Portland Pipeline. “This will allow us to bring in slightly larger cargoes and take on a few ships we wouldn’t take before.”

Citing intermittent but costly vandalism problems, the Cape Elizabeth School Department is asking for a $10,000 security camera system to be installed at the high school. The request comes in the schools’ capital improvement budget requests, reviewed by the Finance Committee Tuesday and sent to the Town Council for its review.

Aging heating equipment led to pipes freezing and bursting in the early morning hours Tuesday at Cape Elizabeth High School, soaking desks and floors in five classrooms and a sizable portion of the library. At least an inch of water was on the floor in several rooms before the water was turned off .

Maine’s congressional delegates, Rep. Tom Allen, Sen. Olympia Snowe and Sen. Susan Collins have made their nominations for appointment to service academies, including several local high school students.

John J. Politis is the son of Timothy J. and Elaine Politis of Scarborough, and a senior at Cheverus High School.

Aaron M. McKenney is the son of Paul and Betsy McKenney of Cape Elizabeth, and a senior at Cape Elizabeth High School, and was nominated by Allen to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Alexander Paul McKenney is the son of Paul and Betsy McKenney of Cape Elizabeth, and a senior at Cape Elizabeth High School, and was nominated by Allen to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.