Recently the Girl Scouts of Maine delivered more than 4,500 packages of cookies from the Cookie Share program to the Southern Maine Agency on Aging in Scarborough. “This is such a treat for our Meals on Wheels clients. These individuals are homebound and often socially isolated. Anytime we can deliver something extra to them always […]
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Scarborough’s role in Civil War to be celebrated
Soldiers from Scarborough were present at most of the major battles of the Civil War from Gettysburg to Antietam to the Red River. In fact 240 men from town enlisted in the Union Army and those men represented about 15 percent of Scarborough’s total population at the time. Now, 150 years after the war ended, […]
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From Serbia to the halls of Congress
A self-portrait by Djordje Jevtic, an exchange student from Serbia attending Scarborough High School, will grace the halls of the U.S. Capitol after being chosen the winner of this year’s Congressional Art Competition for Maine’s First District. Jevtic’s submission was a distinctive self-portrait in acrylic, which First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree said, “shows a lot […]
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City defends need for $15K library book drop
The $15,000 the South Portland City Council has approved for a new book drop at the main branch of the public library is not a lot of money compared to the other capital projects set for the new fiscal year. The proposed $8.1 million capital budget also includes $210,000 for a new ambulance, $120,000 for […]
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Response to speeders gets police attention
Concerned about drivers speeding through their neighborhood, some residents of Minuteman Drive in Scarborough have taken matters into their own hands, causing the police department to call a neighborhood meeting to calm the waters. Minuteman Drive is a quiet residential street off Pleasant Hill Road that is composed of single-family homes where the speed limit […]
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Editorial: Lyme disease a real threat
The Northeast is blessedly exempt from a host of natural dangers. We rarely see tornados or poisonous snakes. There aren’t any slithering lizards or big grizzly bears, no earthquake fault lines, no tarantulas, no monsoon season and there is plenty of fresh water to go around. Lately, one of the few, but increasingly common, natural […]
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Politics And Other Mistakes: Making things worse
Here’s the annoying question I ask supporters of publicly funded political campaigns and term limits for legislators: Can you show me any way in which the current Legislature is better than the ones we had before those alleged reforms were instituted? Here are some actual answers I’ve received. “I wasn’t really around back then.” “That’s […]
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Greetings from Zip Code 04074 (Life in the Suburbs): ‘T-Ball is a Communist plot’
OK, OK, OK. I know I promised, but I can’t help it today, I really can’t. I was NOT going to write another sports-related column here – and then defend it to you by saying, sports actually has many life lessons in it, and actually is a metaphor for events in the universe. Blah, blah, […]
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Cape Elizabeth Briefs
Lions Club breakfast The Cape Elizabeth Lions Club will hold a pancake breakfast on Sunday, May 10, from 7:30-11 a.m., at the old Bowery Beach Schoolhouse, located at the intersection of Two Lights and Wheeler roads. On the menu are pancakes, French toast, eggs, sausage, coffee, tea and juice. The cost is $7 for adults […]
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Cape Elizabeth Briefs
Lions Club breakfast The Cape Elizabeth Lions Club will hold a pancake breakfast on Sunday, May 10, from 7:30-11 a.m., at the old Bowery Beach Schoolhouse, located at the intersection of Two Lights and Wheeler roads. On the menu are pancakes, French toast, eggs, sausage, coffee, tea and juice. The cost is $7 for adults […]