I know, I know, I know – you don’t care about sports, certainly not high school sports. But, fact is, the high school basketball tournament is not sports, not really. It is seeing the kid who used to be your paper boy playing in front of 5,000 at the Portland Expo or the Cumberland County […]
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Gailey: Jennings has ‘no conflict’
SOUTH PORTLAND – Jon Jennings, hired last week to be South Portland’s new assistant city manager, remains one of three general partners in The Forefront at Thompson’s Point, a $105 million waterfront development in Portland, but the man who hired him says there is no conflict of interest. The development, to be built on 30 […]
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Scarborough police log – 2/28
Arrests Monday, Feb. 11 Scott E. Flint, 36, of South Portland, at 1:28 p.m. on Gorham Road, on a warrant. Thursday, Feb. 14 Robert J. Silvia, 47, of Westbrook, at 6:05 p.m. on Gorham Road, on a warrant. Friday, Feb. 15 Karen M. Montgomery, 58, of Scarborough, at 7:31 p.m. on County Road, on charges […]
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Scarborough police log – 2/28
Arrests Monday, Feb. 11 Scott E. Flint, 36, of South Portland, at 1:28 p.m. on Gorham Road, on a warrant. Thursday, Feb. 14 Robert J. Silvia, 47, of Westbrook, at 6:05 p.m. on Gorham Road, on a warrant. Friday, Feb. 15 Karen M. Montgomery, 58, of Scarborough, at 7:31 p.m. on County Road, on charges […]
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Scarborough briefs – 2/28
Scarborough teen honored for service Hardy Girls Healthy Women is celebrating Maine girls in its sixth annual Girls Rock! Weekend, April 5-6. The weekend includes the fifth annual Girls Rock! Awards: a ceremony which recognizes the accomplishments of five Maine girls, including one from Scarborough. Girls Rock! Weekend celebrates girls’ voices in art, music, literature, […]
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Betting the farm
A Scarborough man wants to keep raising cattle, with the help of the town and two conservation groups. SCARBOROUGH – For Chris Comstock, 45, public investment in his property, he says, is the only way he can retain his family homestead and have any chance of making a career out of the hobby he loves, […]
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South Portland mulls curbside compost
SOUTH PORTLAND – It started – as many upstart businesses do – with an offhand thought. Tyler Frank, 27, grew up in North Yarmouth and his partner, Sable Sanborn, 20, was raised in Poland. Based on that rural upbringing, both were practiced in composting table scraps and other organic waste for use in family gardens. […]
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR – 2/28
Cheers to Rep. Terry Morrison I want to give a big shout-out to Rep. Terry Morrison of South Portland for standing up to the NRA, SAM and the governor in voting against the resolution to hide and make secret the applications and permits issued for concealed gum permits. Rep. Morrison was joined by 10 other […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE – Revenge of the pony people
As a kid I learned to ride a horse. During a lesson, we were trotting and my horse tripped, put his head down and I went sailing over its head and hit the ground with a thud that I can still hear to this day. When my father decided he would buy either some ponies […]
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LOOKING BACK – Issue of Feb. 27, 2003
Roughly 60 percent of the people who responded to a WCHS Channel 6 survey this week said they support the idea of video gambling at horse tracks, one of the gambling referendum proposals certified Tuesday by the state to go on the November ballot. “Obviously they didn’t call anyone here in Scarborough,” responded Town Councilor […]