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Super Six Polls

Our final Super-Six polls for boys’ basketball and girls’ basketball. A final boys’ hockey poll will appear next week. The polls consider games played through Saturday, Feb. 27, and were first released on Twitter at Twitter.com/foresports Sunday. The poll includes our core coverage area (coastal Cumberland County from Cape Elizabeth to Freeport) and is based […]

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Arts Calendar: March 2-19

Greater Portland Exhibits “Local Color: Pieces of Maine,” paintings by Dawn Maron, Mike Maron and Suzanne Woodward, Lifeworks Chiropractic Center, 202 US Rte. 1, Suite 100, Falmouth, to April 29. Scarborough Marsh photos, Patagonia store, 9 Bow St., Freeport, until mid-March. “400 Years of New Mainers,” Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland, through April 2. Capacitate // […]

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Cumberland Police Beat: March 3

Arrests 2/19 at 10:48 p.m. John Villacci, 44, of Caddie Lane, Portland, was arrested by Officer Scott Hendee on Blackstrap Road on a charge of attaching false plates. 2/20 at 7 a.m. Jovan Calhoun, 32, of Haley Street, Lewiston, was arrested by Officer Scott Hendee in North Yarmouth on charges of operating under the influence […]

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Yarmouth Police Beat: March 3

Arrests 2/27 at 1:36 a.m. Lily Sands, 20, of Birchwood Terrace, North Yarmouth, was arrested on West Main Street by Officer Michael Pierce on a charge of operating without a license beyond conditions. Summonses 2/24 at 12:20 a.m. Philip Thaxter, 27, of Durham Road, New Gloucester, was issued a summons on East Elm Street by […]

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Northern School Notebook: March 3

 Scouts and others serve in state Senate Isabella Chandler, Kylie Josephson and Audrey Hankinson served as honorary pages in the Maine Senate Feb. 16. Hankinson and Josephson are both members of Cumberland Girl Scout Troop 42. They and other Scouts from around the state spent the day at the State House meeting with legislators and […]

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Freeport Police Beat: March 3

Arrests No arrests were reported from Feb. 23-29. Summonses 2/25 at 9:06 p.m. Katie L. Barter, 24, of Noble Avenue, Bath, was issued a summons on Interstate 295 by Officer Jerod Verrill on charges of violating conditions of release and operating with a suspended or revoked license. 2/26 at 7:22 p.m. Robert Morrison, 22, of Mountfort […]

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Ralph W. Griffith, 85

FALMOUTH — Ralph Warren Griffith, 85, of Falmouth, died Feb. 25 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough after a gallant fight against COPD. He was born Jan. 27, 1931, in Minersville, Pennsylvania, to Marion (Barnhart) and Ralph Griffith. He attended local schools and graduated in 1952 from Penn State University with a bachelor’s in […]

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Northern Meetings: March 3-11

Chebeague Island Wed.  3/9  6 p.m.  Board of Selectmen  IH Cumberland Thur.  3/10  7 p.m.  Board of Adjustments & Appeals  TH Falmouth Mon.  3/7  6 p.m.  Falmouth 300 Public Forum  TH Mon.  3/7  7 p.m.  Conservation Commission  TH Thur.  3/10  5 p.m.  Council Finance Sub-committee  TH  Thur.  3/10  6 p.m.  LPAC  TH Freeport Mon.  3/7  […]

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Sports Roundup

Strong showings at indoor track New Englands Several local runners, jumpers and throwers turned heads at last weekend’s New England indoor track and field championship meet in Boston. Cheverus’ Tre Fletcher came in third in the boys’ long jump (21 feet, 7 inches) and placed 18th in the 55 (6.82 seconds). Deering’s Paolo DeMarco came […]