When I look back at my time at Freeport High School, I realize I was fortunate to have been part of the class of 2009. As any graduate in the 2000s can attest to, it was a great decade for our town, our schools were flourishing, and my classmates and I felt privileged to go […]
October 2014
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LETTERS: Right thing to do
As a reluctantly admitted member of Freeport’s senior citizen cadre, I am going to vote yes for withdrawal from RSU 5. Thinking long term, if we remain part of the consolidated district we risk losing more good teachers, more teacher support, and more good students as standards continue to decline. We can renovate the current […]
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LETTERS: Yes is vote of confidence
How can anyone honestly think Freeport is better off in a RSU? The state-mandated plan has been doomed to fail since its inception and that’s why so many other RSUs have dissolved, too. It’s not personal or because we do not like our neighbors in Pownal and Durham. We gave it a try and for […]
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LETTERS: A new vision
Freeport is unique and extraordinary. Families here forge strong connections to neighbors, our schools and our community. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and drive for excellence that launched an international retail giant based upon a simple guarantee of quality. How lucky we are, in this small town, to have Freeport Community Services, Freeport Community Players, […]
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How Fear Can Cloud The Way We Think About Climate Change, Ebola, & Other Issues
Do you think there is more or less fear in your life than there has been in previous years? I ask the question because it feels to me (not scientific of course) there is more fear in people’s lives than there has been in the past. If you manage money or work in a field […]
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Planning group presents N. Yarmouth development options
NORTH YARMOUTH — A consultant on Tuesday night presented the town with three recommendations for future development of some of its most prized real estate. In a public question-and-answer meeting at Town Hall, representatives of Planning Decisions – a Portland firm hired by the town – discussed different development scenarios and their potential impact. Big decisions […]
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POLITICS & OTHER MISTAKES: Smiling faces
In an attempt to ease the state’s severe cognitive-dissonance shortage, the arbiters of good taste have spent this election season beseeching candidates to practice both civility and sincerity. As any sensible person involved in politics knows, those qualities can’t coexist. It’s impossible to be considered honest if you’re caught pretending to be pleasant to your […]
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Yes or no, vote spurs big moves
Depending on how Freeport votes Nov. 4 on withdrawal from Regional School Unit 5, the wheels quickly will be set in motion for some big projects: either the formation of a Freeport School Committee or the execution of a $14.6 million bond to renovate and enlarge Freeport High School. Should Freeport withdraw, the Town Council, […]
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Fun times for kids at Wolfe’s Neck Farm
FREEPORT – Little kids and animals have this thing for each other. That was evident on a recent Thursday morning at Wolfe’s Neck Farm in Freeport, which hosts a weekly “Farmer for the Morning” event. Pre-schoolers from Freeport and area towns, guided by Wolfe’s Neck Farm livestock educator Richard Hodges, had a blast looking at […]
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Freeport News – 10/29
Coastal Studies for Girls tours set Coastal Studies for Girls will hold an open house at its campus, 308 Wolfe’s Neck Road in Freeport, Sunday, Nov. 2, from noon-3 p.m. Tours of the school will run every 20 minutes. Coastal Studies for Girls is a Semester School for 10th-grade girls. Each semester,15 girls from across […]
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