SCARBOROUGH – Town Councilor Judith Roy may have made the most honest assessment of Scarborough’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year, presented March 21 by Town Manager Tom Hall. “I choked a little,” she said. That’s because gross spending is up 5.86 percent, to $64.2 million. Cumberland County taxes are up 5 percent, to […]
2012
Posted inCurrent, The Forecaster
'Correction year' forces tax hike in Scarborough
SCARBOROUGH – Town Councilor Judith Roy may have made the most honest assessment of Scarborough’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year, presented March 21 by Town Manager Tom Hall. “I choked a little,” she said. That’s because gross spending is up 5.86 percent, to $64.2 million. Cumberland County taxes are up 5 percent, to […]
advertisement
Posted inCurrent, Southern Forecaster
South Portland tax bill likely to increase
SOUTH PORTLAND – Based largely on hikes in school spending and initial payments on the high school renovation project, South Portland’s budget for the next fiscal year is expected to jump $2.01 million, or 3 percent, to a new high of $71.37 million. The proposed budget breaks down to $28.45 million in municipal spending (up […]
Posted inCurrent, Southern Forecaster
'Mind' games for Dyer Elementary students
SOUTH PORTLAND – Creative thinking, out-of-the-box ideas and innovation were celebrated and rewarded when about 170 teams from all across Maine descended on the Wells schools Saturday to take part in the state Odyssey of the Mind tournament. Of those teams was a first-time participant from Dyer Elementary School in South Portland. The six-member team, […]
Posted inCurrent, Southern Forecaster, The Forecaster
'I'm so proud to be back' – Q&A with Lauren Springer of Cape Elizabeth
CAPE ELIZABETH – When Cape Elizabeth native Lauren Springer, 32, returned home after seven years as a preschool teacher in Brookline, Mass., she made the jump out of the classroom and into the floral industry. In January, she opened her own shop, Fiddleheads, on Shore Road in Cape Elizabeth, and now Springer has launched “Flowers […]
Posted inCurrent, Southern Forecaster
Scarborough police log – 3/29
Arrests Wednesday, March 21 Philip D. Caiazzo, 21, of Gorham, on County Road at 1:07 a.m., on charges of burglary, criminal mischief and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon. Lamanz A. Cooper, 24, of Scarborough, on Holmes Road at 1:09 p.m., on charges of possession of marijuana and violating bail conditions of release, and for […]
Posted inCurrent, Southern Forecaster
Scarborough police log – 3/29
Arrests Wednesday, March 21 Philip D. Caiazzo, 21, of Gorham, on County Road at 1:07 a.m., on charges of burglary, criminal mischief and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon. Lamanz A. Cooper, 24, of Scarborough, on Holmes Road at 1:09 p.m., on charges of possession of marijuana and violating bail conditions of release, and for […]
Posted inTimes Record
Council votes to keep McLellan
BRUNSWICK — With plans to move municipal offices to the first two floors of the downtown McLellan Building in 2014, the Brunswick Town Council during a special meeting Tuesday voted 6-3 to reject an offer of $2 million to put the building back in Bowdoin College’s hands. Last fall, the town reached an agreement with the […]
Posted inTimes Record
Court: What’s left of health law without mandate?
WASHINGTON — The heart of the Obama administration’s health care overhaul hanging in the balance, the Supreme Court is turning to whether the rest of the law can survive if the crucial individual insurance requirement is struck down. The justices also will spend part of today, the last of three days of arguments over the health […]
Posted inTimes Record
Must buy veggies? Justices ask how far gov’t can go
WASHINGTON — It boiled down to a debate over broccoli. And bread. And burial plots. If government can tell people to buy health insurance, Supreme Court justices wanted to know, what else could it make them buy? Throughout Tuesday’s hearing on the health care law, the justices and lawyers argued about the perfect product to illustrate […]