SOUTH PORTLAND – Less than a week from graduation, a handful of seniors at South Portland High School are praising a new program launched this year as the reason they will march to “Pomp and Circumstance” on Sunday alongside their classmates. Since October, a core group of six to eight students, and sometimes as many […]
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LETTERS TO MYSELF: When summer break means summer crisis
I’d like you to meet Jody. Jody is 11 years old and attends elementary school in your community. He’s a good student, has a perfect attendance record and often stays after school to help out his teachers with some task or another. Jody is almost always courteous, polite, and genuinely loves being in school. Some […]
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LETTERS TO MYSELF: When summer break means summer crisis
I’d like you to meet Jody. Jody is 11 years old and attends elementary school in your community. He’s a good student, has a perfect attendance record and often stays after school to help out his teachers with some task or another. Jody is almost always courteous, polite, and genuinely loves being in school. Some […]
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Principal cancels Cape school play
CAPE ELIZABETH – A student-written satire that was to have been performed last Friday and Saturday nights at Cape Elizabeth High School was canceled hours before its premiere by Principal Jeffrey Shedd, who cited concern that its subject matter, the December suspension of nine students for selling or consuming cookies laced with marijuana, would “send […]
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Current calendar – 6/5
Thursday, June 6 South Portland Summer Farmers Market, 3-7 p.m., on Hinckley Drive next to Mill Creek Park. 799-7743 or [email protected]. Friday, June 7 “On the Boardwalk Lockdown” teen summer reading kickoff, 6-8:30 p.m., Scarborough Public Library. Doors will open at 6, then the library will “lock down” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. for an […]
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South Portland councilors reject iPads for students
SOUTH PORTLAND – The South Portland City Council on Monday refused a school board request to outfit students in grades 7-12 with Apple iPads. Although the school board voted unanimously to back the iPad as South Portland’s choice among five possible leases offered under the Maine Learning Technology Initiative, it fell to the City Council […]
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Trust dedicates Warren Woods
SCARBOROUGH – On Saturday, June 1, Scarborough Land Trust held the dedication and official naming of Elaine Stimson Warren Woods. The land trust purchased the 156-acre parcel from Harvey Warren of Scarborough in December. Warren Woods is located on Payne Road, near Scarborough schools, with frontage on the Nonesuch River, the largest source of fresh […]
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South Portland suspends towing companies
SOUTH PORTLAND – Three towing companies have been temporarily crossed off a list of 12 firms used by South Portland to clear vehicles from the roadway following arrests and accidents, after a police review found they “grossly overcharged” customers by thousands of dollars. In return, Vincent Maietta, a principal of one of the companies involved, […]
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ESPECIALLY FOR SENIORS: Some warm memories of summer
Some older friends and I were reminiscing about our youth recently and have decided life really was different, especially in the country town where we grew up – about 15,000 less people, mostly dirt roads and a place where everyone knew your name and names of several prior generations. As children, we played in the […]
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GUEST COLUMN: Repealing 2011 tax cuts is the right alternative
Maine’s state and local taxes, including income, sales, property and estate taxes, are the subject of various proposed bills in the Legislature. Mainers would be best served if tax changes are based on informed sound tax policy. However, politics and the lack of detailed understanding of tax laws by the vast majority of legislators, business […]