Along with the multiple holiday-themed advertisements and Christmas cards, residents of Freeport will be getting a vital piece of mail at their homes this week. It is from the Freeport Conservation Trust, a volunteer organization dedicated to preserving the town’s open lands, and it is asking residents for their help with two projects that are […]
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Land trust raising money for farm, woods parcels
Along with the multiple holiday-themed advertisements and Christmas cards, residents of Freeport will be getting a vital piece of mail at their homes this week. It is from the Freeport Conservation Trust, a volunteer organization dedicated to preserving the town’s open lands, and it is asking residents for their help with two projects that are […]
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Open house set for new charter school
Baxter Academy for Technology and Science will be holding a parent information session on Wednesday, Dec. 26, from noon-2 p.m. at the Glickman Library on the University of Southern Maine’s Portland campus. School representatives will be on hand to answer both student and parent questions. Baxter Academy for Technology and Science is a public charter […]
Posted inPortland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Challenge grant offers hope for Portland free clinic
PORTLAND — The Portland Community Free Clinic may keep its doors open a little longer, thanks to a $25,000 challenge grant from the Emanuel and Pauline A. Lerner Foundation. Mayor Michael Brennan and Eliot Cutler, chairman of the Portland-based philanthropy, announced the grant Dec. 14, and called upon other organizations and individuals to match it. […]
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Q&A with Abigial Smith – Sandy aid, student to student
The fact that one of the school districts in New York that was hit the hardest by Hurricane Sandy was named Freeport was a coincidence that wasn’t lost on Durham’s Abigial Smith. Smith, 17, a senior at Freeport High School, was struck by the images of devastation that came in the aftermath of the superstorm. […]
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Q&A with Abigial Smith – Sandy aid, student to student
The fact that one of the school districts in New York that was hit the hardest by Hurricane Sandy was named Freeport was a coincidence that wasn’t lost on Durham’s Abigial Smith. Smith, 17, a senior at Freeport High School, was struck by the images of devastation that came in the aftermath of the superstorm. […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly
BOYS BASKETBALL: Bombs away as Bonny Eagle routs TA
STANDISH – On high school basketball courts, the 3-point line is 19.75 feet away from the center of the basket. For the Bonny Eagle boys basketball team, that distance must have looked like a lot shorter against Thornton Academy last Friday night. The Scots were on fire from behind the stripe all night against the […]
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, Southern Forecaster, Web
Faces & Places – 12/19
Send your own Faces & Places to [email protected]. Each week, the Tri-Town Weekly will test its readers’ observation skills by publishing a close-up photo of a landmark in Pownal, Freeport or Durham. Readers who think they know where the photo was taken should send their guesses to [email protected]. All correct responses, as well as the […]
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INDOOR TRACK: Scarborough boys, South Portland girls win at first meet
GORHAM – Last Saturday marked the start of the Southwestern Maine Activities Association indoor track season, and with it two months of jumps, vaults, dashes, throws and tired, tired lungs. The Scarborough, South Portland, Massabesic, Portland and Deering teams started their season with a five-team meet at the fieldhouse at the University of Southern Maine […]
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INDOOR TRACK: Scarborough boys, South Portland girls win at first meet
GORHAM – Last Saturday marked the start of the Southwestern Maine Activities Association indoor track season, and with it two months of jumps, vaults, dashes, throws and tired, tired lungs. The Scarborough, South Portland, Massabesic, Portland and Deering teams started their season with a five-team meet at the fieldhouse at the University of Southern Maine […]