SANFORD — Artists and graphic designers, get your creative juices flowing. The Sanford School Department is hosting a competition for a logo for the new Sanford Performing Arts Center, set to open in December at the new Sanford High School and Regional Technical Center. The logo contest is open now and continues through Friday, April […]
March 2018
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Saco hopes for easement for Unit 91 heating system
SACO — A plan to move the boiler system in a city-owned property on Saco Island could make the property more marketable, but would require the loss of two parking spaces. The city acquired a property in the former mill complex on Saco Island known as Unit 91 in lieu of unpaid property taxes from […]
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Deschambault’s restaurant bill enacted into law
AUGUSTA — March 14 passed in Maine without a lot of fanfare, but it also marked the day that a bill proposed by State Sen. Susan Deschambault of Biddeford allowing businesses and restaurants to expand and sell alcohol to customers in non-contiguous spaces became law. The new law, LD 1738, “An Act To Permit the Sale […]
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Mrs. Biddeford aims for state crown in pageant
BIDDEFORD — This year’s Mrs. Biddeford contestant in the Mrs. Maine America Pageant is a familiar face to many middle school students across the city. Elizabeth “Liz” LeBlanc, a sixth-grade English and Language Arts teacher at Biddeford Middle School for the past 11 years, will compete April 22 for the Mrs. Maine America crown at […]
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Saco begins municipal budget process
SACO — The City of Saco has proposed a municipal budget that would lower the mil rate and help cushion the impact on the mil rate from the school side. City Finance Director Glenys Salas presented on Monday night a $28.7 municipal budget proposal that includes $1.3 million in county tax. The number does not […]
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LePage pushes for control of job training funds. Agencies say that’s illegal.
First, he wanted to merge them. Then he blocked their funding. Now, Gov. Paul LePage wants to dictate how three regional job training boards spend nearly three quarters of the millions in federal funds they receive to provide job training to laid-off workers, low-income adults, people recently released from prison and struggling young adults. The […]
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Regulators vote to launch investigation of CMP’s billing, metering systems
The Maine Public Utilities Commission said Tuesday it would launch a formal investigation into Central Maine Power’s billing and metering systems following customer complaints about skyrocketing bills and poor quality service. PUC Chairman Mark Vannoy and Commissioners R. Bruce Williamson and Randall Davis agreed to start a “technical forensic audit” to look expressly at metering and billing […]
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Share info to deter election interference, senators say
WASHINGTON — Government efforts to protect state and local elections from cyberattacks in 2016 didn’t go far enough, leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday as the panel released its recommendations for protection from foreign interference in the 2018 primary season that’s already underway. Federal warnings last time did not provide enough information or […]
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World’s last male northern white rhino, Sudan, dies
NAIROBI, Kenya — The death of the world’s last male northern white rhino, Sudan, doesn’t end efforts to save a subspecies of one of the world’s most recognizable animals. The focus now turns to his stored semen and that of four other dead rhinos, as well as the perfection of in vitro fertilization techniques and […]
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Dennis L. Neukam
BIDDEFORD — Dennis L. “Pa” Neukam, 64, of Biddeford, died on Jan. 11, 2018 at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House. He was the life partner of Fern Hilsinger. He was born in San Diego, California on Oct. 27, 1953, a son of the late Leslie Neukam and Barbara (Taylor) Sigman and her husband Wayne. He […]