Despite contributions from four different Rams, No. 5 Gorham couldn’t keep pace with No. 4 Scarborough in the teams’ quarterfinals matchup last Wednesday, June 10. Reagan Emerson led the Rams with a pair of goals, but the Red Storm’s offensive output dwarfed Gorham’s. Final score: 16-5. Gorham’s loss bounced them from playoff contention; they retire […]
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Editorial: We’re all thumbs
Welcome to another edition of “We’re all thumbs,” in which the editorial staff of Current Publishing picks proverbial winners and losers, heroes and villains from recent news stories: • Thumbs UP to all the student-athletes participating in regional finals and state championships this month. We are particularly impressed by record-setters such as Lake Region High […]
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City Council approves $95.5 million budget
The South Portland City Council has approved a combined municipal and school budget that would raise the tax rate by 60 cents per $1,000 of valuation. On Monday the council voted 6-0 to approve a total budget of $95.5 million for the new fiscal year, which starts on July 1. The budget represents an increase […]
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Two-wheelin’ officers on patrol
With the return of warm weather residents of South Portland should get used to seeing police officers riding bicycles while out on routine patrols. The bicycle patrol program, which was reinstituted last summer, has proved popular both with the public and with the officers themselves, according to Lt. Frank Clark of the South Portland Police […]
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Scarborough High School top 10 percent
Megan Acker is the daughter of Sarah Nadeau and Ken Acker. Megan was the co-president of Interact Club, a member for the Executive Committee of the State Youth Council of the UCC Churches of Maine, and a member of National Honor Society. She has participated in the one-act plays and numerous productions at Portland Stage […]
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Scarborough High School top 10 percent
Megan Acker is the daughter of Sarah Nadeau and Ken Acker. Megan was the co-president of Interact Club, a member for the Executive Committee of the State Youth Council of the UCC Churches of Maine, and a member of National Honor Society. She has participated in the one-act plays and numerous productions at Portland Stage […]
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City student wins CLYNK contest
Isabelle Perocier, a sophomore at South Portland High School, is one of the winners of this year’s CLYNK for Art contest, which means her piece showing two hands holding the earth will start appearing on the company’s trucks in the next few weeks. Perocier is the third student from South Portland High chosen to have […]
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African students thankful for donations
Following a recent trip to the Ngamo Primary School in Zimbabwe by Christine L’Abbe?, principal at Holy Cross School in South Portland, local students raised hundreds of dollars to help their African counterparts pay school fees and more. Last week Holy Cross School received photographic evidence showing that their fundraising efforts are truly making a […]
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Students offer helping hand to those a world away
Last week, Scarborough students raised money for earthquake relief in Nepal. Valerie Razsa, a fifth-grade teacher at Wentworth School in Scarborough, said the thousands of dollars students raised for Nepal earthquake relief last week was a way for the kids to learn they can make a difference in the world. “I couldn’t be more proud […]
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Dog adoption program’s a keeper
The Inn by the Sea in Cape Elizabeth has had great success linking its guests with shelter pets needing forever homes. New York resident Gayle Catropa, who visited Cape Elizabeth’s Inn by the Sea with her partner recently, didn’t expect to leave Maine with a new family member. Catropa and her partner had stayed at […]