The acupuncture helps with the pain and provides the rare ability to sleep, the meditation gives her strength and focus and the support groups help her to know she is not alone. “This place is a gift,” Benita Dunton, says of the Cancer Community Center in South Portland. “I can’t even imagine what my journey […]

Local developer Rocco Risbara is hoping the town of Scarborough will approve a zone change on 11 acres off Mussey Road that would allow him to build 72 market-rate apartments at the site. Although some reservations were expressed during its meeting last week, the Town Council took the first step toward allowing the zone change, […]

Scarborough is taking the first steps toward a new complex to ease space squeeze. There’s across-the-board agreement that the highest-priority capital need in Scarborough is for a new public safety building. Now, the Town Council is creating a new ad hoc Public Safety Complex Building Committee, which will report back with its findings and recommendations […]

Pursuing alternative energy options, preserving open space, and overcoming divisiveness on the City Council were some of the issues discussed by the seven council candidates Oct. 4. The forum was hosted at City Hall by the South Portland Land Trust, and included all the candidates in this year’s election of two councilors: incumbent Councilor Maxine […]

Scarborough is taking the first steps toward a new complex to ease space squeeze. There’s across-the-board agreement that the highest-priority capital need in Scarborough is for a new public safety building. Now, the Town Council is creating a new ad hoc Public Safety Complex Building Committee, which will report back with its findings and recommendations […]

Pursuing alternative energy options, preserving open space, and overcoming divisiveness on the City Council were some of the issues discussed by the seven council candidates Oct. 4. The forum was hosted at City Hall by the South Portland Land Trust, and included all the candidates in this year’s election of two councilors: incumbent Councilor Maxine […]

Nearly nine months after residents in Pine Point argued vociferously that the town should do everything possible to retain the traditional Avenue 2 right of way, a popular beach access point, Scarborough town leaders are still trying to find a compromise. At a meeting last Saturday, more than 50 residents turned out in continued opposition […]

The Scarborough Town Council candidates are mostly in agreement about the need for better and more open communication with residents, as well as keeping property tax increases at or below 3 percent year to year. The four candidates running for the two seats available on the council this fall answered a series of questions from […]

Three people are running for two seats on the Cape Elizabeth Town Council in the Nov. 8 general election. Councilor Caitlin Jordan is seeking re-election, and faces Shannon Auritt and Penny Jordan. The seats are for three-year terms. Caitlin and Penny Jordan are distant cousins. Two, three-year seats on the Cape School Board are up […]

Three people are running for two seats on the Cape Elizabeth Town Council in the Nov. 8 general election. Councilor Caitlin Jordan is seeking re-election, and faces Shannon Auritt and Penny Jordan. The seats are for three-year terms. Caitlin and Penny Jordan are distant cousins. Two, three-year seats on the Cape School Board are up […]