SOUTH PORTLAND — The city recently received a $10,000 grant from the Department of Environmental Protection to help build a treatment system to improve water quality in Trout Brook.  The funds were left over from a $100,000 grant awarded for the portion of Trout Brook in Cape Elizabeth. In South Portland the money will provide for […]

SCARBOROUGH — First-time Town Councilor Katy Foley and second-term Councilor William Donovan were sworn in at Wednesday’s Town Council meeting. Also on Dec. 7, councilors unanimously elected Councilor Shawn Babine chairman. Babine will also remain chairman of the town Finance Committee. Councilor Kate St. Clair was unanimously elected vice chairwoman.   Foley and Donovan, the former council chairman, […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — City councilors Wednesday agreed the ad hoc Affordable Housing Committee should continue its work for a few more months. But councilors also continued to disagree over how the city should address housing issues. Committee members presented a set of recommendations that could affect nearly half of the city’s population – approximately 47 percent of […]