FALMOUTH — The town has hired Scott Dugas Trucking & Excavating to begin long-anticipated construction work on Hat Trick Drive. Town Manager Nathan Poore said three bids came in, ranging from $468,000 to $545,000, and Dugas’ was “the low bid and the preferred bid.” The other bids came from Chase Excavating and J Pratt Construction. […]
2015
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Community Calendar
Upcoming events “Cobblers to Capitalists: Two Centuries of Freeport Shoemaking,” Freeport Historical Society exhibit, runs through Jan. 15, 2016, Harrington House, 45 Main St. $3 admission. Open Monday-Friday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. through Labor Day; open Tuesday-Friday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Labor Day to Memorial Day. For more information, see www.freeporthistoricalsociety.org or call 865-3170. Summer Free Lunch […]
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Obama’s trade bill clears Senate hurdle, at brink of final passage
The Senate votes 60-37 Tuesday to begin full-blown debate on Obama’s request for ‘fast track’ negotiating authority.
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Freeport planning another bang-up Fourth
Three of the “founding mothers” of Freeport Community Services will ride as grand marshals in this year’s Freeport Fourth of July Parade. The parade, which begins at 10 a.m. at Freeport Middle School and winds down Main Street, culminates a busy morning of holiday activities that includes an early morning pancake breakfast and road races. […]
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'Seeds sown, weeds to pull': Portland memorial decries racism, violence
PORTLAND — An estimated 1,300 people gathered at Merrill Auditorium on Monday to honor the victims of the June 17 shootings at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The “Lift Every Voice and Sing” service organized by the city, the Portland branch of the NAACP, Portland’s Racial Justice Congress, Green Memorial AME Zion Church, […]
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No ?clear-cutting quick fix
Department of Transportation officials are contrite as Freeport residents blast the work done along Interstate 295. Joni Tompson, who lives in the Freeport neighborhood perhaps most devastated by recent Maine Department of Transportation clear-cutting of trees along Interstate 295, made sure early on the morning of June 16 that people impacted knew about a meeting […]
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No ?clear-cutting quick fix
Department of Transportation officials are contrite as Freeport residents blast the work done along Interstate 295. Joni Tompson, who lives in the Freeport neighborhood perhaps most devastated by recent Maine Department of Transportation clear-cutting of trees along Interstate 295, made sure early on the morning of June 16 that people impacted knew about a meeting […]
Posted inMaine, News
Prostate cancer common, especially among older men, but often treatable
With the exception of skin cancer, it’s the most common type of cancer in men, particularly those over the age of 65.
Posted inPortland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Portland, Caulk await word about Kentucky school chief job
PORTLAND — School Department officials are waiting to learn if Superintendent of Schools Emmanuel Caulk will leave for a school district job in Kentucky. On Friday, the department announced Caulk is one of two finalists for superintendent of the 40,000-student Fayette County Public Schools system. While Portland hopes to know by the end of the […]
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Oscar-winning ‘Titanic’ composer James Horner dies in plane crash
Horner’s agents confirm that he was the pilot who was killed when his plane crashed Monday in California.