Welcome to another edition of “We’re all thumbs,” an occasional feature in which the editorial staff of Current Publishing picks proverbial winners and losers, heroes and villains from recent news stories: • Thumbs UP to the Maine Military Museum in South Portland, whose founder and curator, Lee Humiston, held a ceremony last Saturday afternoon awarding […]
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Politics And Other Mistakes: Welfare Music
What Republican Gov. Paul LePage would really like to do is dispose of the entire Maine Department of Health and Human Services. For a fiscal conservative like LePage, that seems reasonable. After all, DHHS spends more money than all but one other state department (education), and it wastes more money than any other state department […]
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Cape residents protest multi-unit housing vision
Cape Elizabeth residents are objecting to zoning changes being proposed by the Planning Board that would allow developers to build multi-unit housing units in rural residential areas of town. After holding at least a dozen workshops throughout the past couple of years, the board voted unanimously March 23 to approve a package of land-use zoning […]
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Greetings from Zip Code 04074 (Life in the Suburbs): Spring cleaning brain dump
WHAT MATTERS Kathy Sparda has run the annual Baccalaureate Night for Scarborough High seniors at St. Max Church the past 20-plus years. Ceremony does not honor high SAT scores or championship athletes. Just a chance say to seniors – good luck, we love you, go get ’em. Refreshing. CELL PHONES Sorry. There is nothing more […]
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Greetings from Zip Code 04074 (Life in the Suburbs): Spring cleaning brain dump
WHAT MATTERS Kathy Sparda has run the annual Baccalaureate Night for Scarborough High seniors at St. Max Church the past 20-plus years. Ceremony does not honor high SAT scores or championship athletes. Just a chance say to seniors – good luck, we love you, go get ’em. Refreshing. CELL PHONES Sorry. There is nothing more […]
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Sharing the power of language at Skillin
Celebrating the mystery and joy of language was the goal of writer and artist Ashley Bryan during a special visit to Skillin School in South Portland last week. Prior to the school-wide assembly Bryan told the Current he enjoys sharing his love of poetry with kids, in particular, adding there is just “something about the […]
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Briefs
Ultimate Frisbee Club offered Scarborough Community Services if offering a co-ed Ultimate Frisbee Club this spring for kids in grades 6-8. Everyone plays and no experience is necessary. Club runs, 5:30-7 p.m., from Tuesday, April 28, to June 12 at the Wentworth School field. The cost is $55 per child. See www.scarboroughmaine.org/departments/community-services or call 730-4150 […]
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Valor remembered, sacrifice honored
Maine veterans are honored at a medal ceremony in South Portland. Named for an uncle he never met – a Navy pilot who was killed in action in June 1943 – Carl Boulter Dunn has carried that legacy his whole life. That’s one reason he was so moved to receive a special State of Maine […]
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New hire
The South Portland school board OKs a superintendent and launches a middle school planning committee. The South Portland Board of Education has approved a two-year contract for the new superintendent of schools, Ken Kunin, as well as given its approval for the creation of a new Middle School Facilities Committee. On Monday, the school board […]
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More upgrades sought at Cape transfer station
The tendency of motorists to speed and improperly navigate the new traffic pattern at the Cape Elizabeth Recycling Center are among concerns being considered by the town as it prepares final recommendations on how to improve safety at the site. In the wake of November’s accident at the recycling center that killed a former Cape […]