CAPE ELIZABETH – The committee that’s been reviewing and updating the Town Center Plan for Cape Elizabeth is now ready to forward its final recommendations to the Town Council. The Town Center Plan Committee will meet at 4 p.m. on Monday, May 19, to give its stamp of approval to a draft plan that will […]
May 2014
Posted inCurrent, Southern Forecaster, The Forecaster
County emergency personnel to hold disaster training in Scarborough on Saturday
On Saturday, May 17, the Cumberland County Emergency Management Agency will hold a regional sheltering full-scale exercise beginning at 8 a.m. at Scarborough High School. Thirteen local supporting organizations will be participating, including the Southern Maine Chapter of the American Red Cross, Cumberland County Animal Response Team, Boy Scouts of American and the Southern Maine […]
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County emergency personnel to hold disaster training in Scarborough on Saturday
On Saturday, May 17, the Cumberland County Emergency Management Agency will hold a regional sheltering full-scale exercise beginning at 8 a.m. at Scarborough High School. Thirteen local supporting organizations will be participating, including the Southern Maine Chapter of the American Red Cross, Cumberland County Animal Response Team, Boy Scouts of American and the Southern Maine […]
Posted inCurrent, The Forecaster
Cancer survivor starts new church
CAPE ELIZABETH – After surviving the diagnosis and treatment for stage 4 throat cancer, the Rev. Richard Kepler said it became his God-given mission to start a new church in Cape Elizabeth. The Church of the 2nd Chance now holds services at 10:30 a.m. each Sunday in the cafeteria at Cape Elizabeth High School. Kepler […]
Posted inNation & World, News
Violent protest in Turkish city where at least 274 miners have died
The last worker rescued alive emerged from the mine around dawn today; an estimated 120 workers are still inside.
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Freeport doctors push the alternative envelope for integrative health care
FREEPORT — The local private practice of a pair of alternative doctors just got a little bit fringier. Be Well My Friend, the South Freeport Road family practice of Drs. Kevin Kenerson and Michael Dufresne, offers services ranging from pediatric care to acupuncture to medical marijuana certification. This month, the physicians will add farm shares as […]
Posted inForecaster Sports, The Forecaster
Maine moose hunt lottery deadline nears
The number of permits has been reduced because of the impact of winter ticks.
Posted inMaine, News, Outdoors, Sports
Maine moose hunt lottery deadline nears
The number of permits has been reduced because of the impact of winter ticks.
Posted inCurrent, The Forecaster
Current News Briefs – 5/14
Cape resident earns peace scholarship Amber Powell, a student from Cape Elizabeth attending the Southern Maine Community College has received a George J. Mitchell Peace Scholarship to study in Ireland next fall. Powell will attend the Cork Institute of Technology where she plans to study community development or business. Her great-grandmother was born in Cork […]
Posted inOpinion
Leonard Pitts: ‘Liberty and justice for all’ elusive in the age of the wealth gap
A new book makes a case for a two-tier justice system, in which big money criminals don’t serve time.