FALMOUTH — The second online auction to benefit the Falmouth Cumberland Community Chamber Scholarship Fund begins this week. Bidding begins Thursday and runs through April 26. The chamber also will host a Business After Five event on Wednesday, April 25, from 5-7 p.m. at Gorham Savings Bank in West Falmouth to allow last-minute online bidding. […]

PORTLAND — Less than a week after receiving City Manager Mark Rees’ budget proposal for fiscal 2013, members of the City Council finance committee were already convinced it wouldn’t get their recommendation. On Thursday, April 5, the committee conferenced on the overall budget proposal after a meeting to parse out Rees’ specific recommendations for the […]

YARMOUTH — The field of candidates seeking to replace state Rep. Melissa Walsh Innes, D-Yarmouth, thinned last week with the withdrawal of Democrat Dennis Welsh. Welsh, a professional photographer who has served on the Yarmouth Pedestrian and Bicycling Committee, cited personal reasons for his decision to withdraw from the District 107 race. Welsh’s decision leaves […]

PORTLAND — Several local organizations will use a $68,000 grant to identify and reduce the barriers to the full inclusion of immigrant and refugee youth in greater Portland. The Hudson Foundation grant will allow LearningWorks to partner with The Institute for Civic Leadership and Steve Wessler, founder and former director of the Center for Preventing […]

PORTLAND — A tangle of fat electric wire tentacles, maybe a dozen, reached out from a  street-side utility pole toward Coffee By Design’s Washington Avenue roastery, starkly visible from the second floor conference room where Mary Allen Lindemann sat explaining why, by week’s end, the local caffeine experts will scarcely have need for them. On […]