SCARBOROUGH – A new two-story structure will be built in the coming weeks along Gallery Boulevard in Scarborough, but it’s not a new store. The looming monolith will be, instead, a giant mound of dirt and other material placed where those shops, at least four of them, will eventually go. According to Nancy St. Clair […]

SCARBOROUGH – Steve Stracqualursi doesn’t need a government-funded study to tell him things are changing in the waters around Scarborough. “I catch more crabs than fish now. They grab right on to the line,” he said last week at a Town Hall forum held to discuss the impacts of sea level rise. Stracqualursi, one of […]

SOUTH PORTLAND – Three years ago, when Tom Howard added a dining room and function center to J.P. Thornton’s Bar & Grille, the popular deli and pub he owns at 740 Broadway, he ordered an $80,000 mahogany bar, made in Hartford, Conn. “I told them I wanted it to look turn-of-the-century, like something that came […]

SCARBOROUGH – A group calling itself Dog Owners of Greater Scarborough has vowed to mount a citizens’ petition drive aimed at undoing any new leash law adopted this week by the Town Council, in hopes of overturning it at the polls in November. Wednesday’s Town Council meeting took place after the deadline for this week’s […]

Public supper – Saturday, Sept. 7, 5-6 p.m., West Gorham Union Church, Route 25 (3 miles west of Gorham Village), Gorham. Three kinds of beans, hot dogs, chicken pie, American chop suey, casseroles, salads, delicious homemade pies, coffeee, and punch. No one leaves hungry. Ticket sales begin at 4 p.m. $7.50, $3. Bean supper – […]