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2021
Posted inSports
Sports Digest: Strasser wins first World Cup ski race of 2021
Linus Strasser gives Germany its first World Cup slalom win in more than three years, surging from eighth place after the opening run.
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Posted inThe Forecaster
SoPo revaluation will be a big factor in 2022 budget
SOUTH PORTLAND — The South Portland City Council raised the curtain on the 2022 budget season with a joint workshop with the school board this week and already the annual real estate revaluation has one official worried about what changes in property values will do to residential tax bills. “There’s going to be a pretty […]
Posted inScarborough Leader, Southern Maine Weeklies
Scarborough school board accepting applicants for new committee
SCARBOROUGH — The Board of Education of Scarborough announced that the deadline to apply for the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Steering Committee has been extended to Jan. 20. Formation of this new committee is the first step in an agreement the board has made with Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium, a nonprofit organization, to evaluate and […]
Posted inElection 2020, Nation & World, Politics
AP fact check: Trump repeats false claims on a day of reckoning
At a rally and on Twitter, the president is pressing his case for overturning the election results as Congress begins counting and confirming the Electoral College vote won by Joe Biden.
Posted inAmerican Journal
Aggravated assaults on rise in Westbrook
The newest Unified Crime Report Police finds most other crime rates in the city are stable.
Posted inElection 2020, Nation & World, Politics
Trump tells supporters they’re ‘very special’ and to ‘go home’ after mob storms Capitol
Social media platforms remove the short video in which the president also spreads false claims about widespread election fraud.
Posted inSouthern Forecaster
A survivor’s message: Don’t carry it alone
More than 25 years after a traumatic assault, a local woman expresses her thanks to Scarborough Police.
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
Bridgton Hospital welcomes its first baby of 2021
BRIDGTON —Bridgton Hospital welcomed its first baby of 2021 on New Year’s Day. Josephine Grace, daughter of Sarah and John Tucker, was born at 6:22 p.m. on Jan. 1, weighing 8 pounds, 9 ounces, and measuring 20.75 inches. “She likes to burp. She likes to cuddle. She has a little head of blonde hair, chubby […]
Posted inElection 2020, Nation & World, Politics
Pence defies Trump, says he can’t reject electoral votes
In the days before Wednesday’s joint session of Congress, Trump has pressured his vice president to toss electors from battleground states that voted for Joe Biden.