PORTLAND — A new lobster processing business could bring more than 50 jobs to a city-owned waterfront building that displays an iconic mural facing the Maine State Pier. On May 14, the Planning Board approved the site plan and conditional use permit allowing Shucks Maine Lobster to occupy almost 19,000 square feet in the Portland Ocean […]
May 2014
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
RSU 1 budget ready for first of 2 votes by public
BATH — A proposed $28.35 million spending plan for fiscal 2015 goes before Regional School Unit 1 voters at a district budget meeting Tuesday, May 27. Two weeks later, the budget – supported unanimously May 5 by the RSU 1 Board of Directors – goes to a final validation referendum on Tuesday, June 10. Total spending is […]
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Quinnipiac commencement bomb threats aimed to mask dropout, police say
A Mass. woman is charged with making the threats to disrupt the proceedings and prevent her family from finding out she wasn’t graduating.
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
Activists: Death toll in Syria’s war tops 160,000
The crisis has also uprooted some 6.5 million people from their homes, forced 2.7 million to flee the country and laid waste to cities and towns alike.
Posted inNation & World, News
Activists: Death toll in Syria’s war tops 160,000
The crisis has also uprooted some 6.5 million people from their homes, forced 2.7 million to flee the country and laid waste to cities and towns alike.
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Cumberland Girl Scouts to staff food truck on Memorial Day
CUMBERLAND — Girl Scouts will staff a Good Shepherd food truck during Memorial Day activities on Monday, May 26. The four Troop No. 106 scouts – Kallee Gallant, Molly Horton, Grace Mongeau and Allison Richards – have been working with the town’s community food pantry on Surplus 2 Supper, their Silver Project, according to an […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
Iowa university led by former UMaine chancellor penalized for false tactics
The for-profit university agrees to pay $7.25 million to settle claims it used false tactics to sign up students.
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Iowa university led by former UMaine chancellor penalized for false tactics
The for-profit university agrees to pay $7.25 million to settle claims it used false tactics to sign up students.
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
SAD 51 election draws 5 from Cumberland for 3 seats
CUMBERLAND — The three seats up for grabs June 10 on the School Administrative District 51 Board of Directors have attracted five candidates. Bob Vail created one vacancy when he decided not to seek re-election after 15 years on the board. Members John Simpson of Island View Drive and Pete Wilson of Oak Ridge Road […]
Posted inPortland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Portland Memorial Day parade set for May 26
PORTLAND — The annual Memorial Day parade and commemoration ceremony is scheduled to being at 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 26. Organized by the American Legion Harold T. Andrews Post No. 17, the parade will begin at Longfellow Square at State and Congress streets and march east along Congress Street to Monument Square. The parade will […]