Greater Portland Benefits Sunday 5/20 Southern Maine Heart Walk, 8:30 a.m., AAA of Northern New England, Portland, 1-mile or 5K walk, kids zone, speakers, demos, SouthernMaineHeartWalk.org. Thursday 5/24 Allagash Brewing Company Victor Ale tasting, 5-8 p.m., St. Lawrence Arts, 76 Congress St., $25 includes music, beer, food. Benefits SLA and Friends of Fort Gorges. Monday 5/28 […]
May 2018
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Community Calendar: May 16-26
Greater Portland Benefits Sunday 5/20 Southern Maine Heart Walk, 8:30 a.m., AAA of Northern New England, Portland, 1-mile or 5K walk, kids zone, speakers, demos, SouthernMaineHeartWalk.org. Thursday 5/24 Allagash Brewing Company Victor Ale tasting, 5-8 p.m., St. Lawrence Arts, 76 Congress St., $25 includes music, beer, food. Benefits SLA and Friends of Fort Gorges. Monday 5/28 […]
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Northern School Notebook: May 17
FHS students praised for advocating on behalf of disabled Three students from Freeport High School were honored by the Maine Developmental Disabilities Council when it hosted its third annual Inclusion Celebration at the State House in Augusta on April 25. The ceremony celebrated the efforts of high school juniors and seniors who created essays and […]
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Northern Meetings: May 17-25
Chebeague Island Wed. 5/23 6 p.m. Board of Selectmen CIH Durham Thur. 5/24 6:30 p.m. Planning Board Workshop TO Falmouth Tues. 5/22 5:30 p.m. Community Development Committee TH Tues. 5/22 6:30 p.m. Board of Zoning Appeals TH Freeport Mon. 5/21 5:30 p.m. Sustainability Advisory Committee TH Tues. 5/22 6 p.m. Mallet Dr./Exit 22 Bridge Workshop […]
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Matching grants available for downtown facelift
WESTBROOK — Economic Development Director Daniel Stevenson hopes the recently launched downtown facade program is the boost downtown businesses need to improve the look of the city’s center. Stevenson, who joined the city staff in October, said he started the program not because of any particular downtown site or issue, but because he saw how […]
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Politics & Other Mistakes: Sign off
The term “A Modest Proposal” has had a negative connotation ever since Jonathan Swift used that title for his 1729 essay on dealing with poverty in Ireland. Swift suggested poor parents sell their babies to the rich as food. Swift was engaged in satire, but you know how touchy people are about cannibalism. You so […]
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The Universal Notebook: Do the right thing
Last week, folks in Scarborough resoundingly voted to send three School Board members packing in a recall election that was nominally about their competence, but actually about their support for the superintendent of schools in a policy dispute with the high school principal. Students, faculty and voters all lined up behind the principal. The recalled […]
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Here's Something: Portland’s homelessness not a pretty picture
The front-page photo in the May 6 Maine Sunday Telegram deserves an award. Captured by staff photographer Ben McCanna, the image showed a woman picking up litter beside a homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk near the Preble Street Resource Center. The man had one arm extended on the sidewalk and one leg dangling off […]
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Contract dispute about time, not money, teachers say
WESTBROOK — Teachers, guidance counselors, librarians, nurses and social workers in the Westbrook Education Association, working without a contract since the beginning of the school year, took to the School Committee last week clad in red to urge action. Contract negotiations, which started in March of 2017, have failed and are now in the hands […]
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60 years and 46 houses later: Successful program continues to build students’ hands-on experience in the trades
WESTBROOK — Students in the building trades program at the Westbrook Regional Vocational Center were working last week on the roof of their latest house, the 46th constructed since the program started 60 years ago. The house, at 33 Declaration Drive, is expected to be ready for sale at the end of the next school […]