SCARBOROUGH – Oftentimes the most important lessons do not involve a lecture or a test. These lessons come in classrooms that do not have four walls and are not given by a single teacher. For a group of 11 Scarborough High School students, the last week and a half has been one of those lessons, […]
2012
Posted inCurrent, The Forecaster
STORM REPORTS – Scarborough students take a lesson outside the classroom
SCARBOROUGH – Oftentimes the most important lessons do not involve a lecture or a test. These lessons come in classrooms that do not have four walls and are not given by a single teacher. For a group of 11 Scarborough High School students, the last week and a half has been one of those lessons, […]
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Posted inCurrent, The Forecaster
STORM REPORTS – Scarborough students take a lesson outside the classroom
SCARBOROUGH – Oftentimes the most important lessons do not involve a lecture or a test. These lessons come in classrooms that do not have four walls and are not given by a single teacher. For a group of 11 Scarborough High School students, the last week and a half has been one of those lessons, […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly
EDITORIAL – It's enough to make you sick
If you’re not angry, the saying goes, then you are not paying attention. The anger was swift and overwhelming earlier this month when the news spread that the U.S. Department of Agriculture was filling school lunches with “pink slime.” As social media spread disgust for the product – a low-cost filler for ground beef made […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly
EDITORIAL – It's enough to make you sick
If you’re not angry, the saying goes, then you are not paying attention. The anger was swift and overwhelming earlier this month when the news spread that the U.S. Department of Agriculture was filling school lunches with “pink slime.” As social media spread disgust for the product – a low-cost filler for ground beef made […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly
QUINN'S CORNER – Courtside fouls
Among democratic world governments, the American system is unique. Nowhere else is supreme political power vested in judges and courts. Everywhere else, elective/political bodies are the ultimate source of laws. In fact, the idea that courts may overrule the Legislature was not part of the original American design – it simply became fixed through custom. […]
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CMP’s Saco Bay power upgrade goes online today
The upgrade is to increase capacity and to improve reliability for the electric grid in the Saco Bay region.
Posted inNews, Sports
Magic Johnson group to buy Dodgers for record $2B
A group that includes the former Lakers star and longtime baseball executive Stan Kasten agrees to buy the Dodgers from Frank McCourt.
Posted inNews
Friends’ fishing trip ends in tragedy; only 1 survives
The survivor recounts the harrowing Gulf saga and the last 30 hours of a man who had been his best friend for 25 years.
Posted inCurrent, Southern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Scarborough explores outsourcing of school custodial services
SCARBOROUGH – As it heads into what town officials concede will be a tough budget year, the Scarborough School Department is looking to save money by outsourcing custodial services at its six buildings – a move the local union promises to oppose. On March 13, the department issued a request seeking cleaning companies capable of […]