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Bill Nemitz: Just when legislators are playing nice … a curveball

So much for the kumbaya moment. Just one day after Maine lawmakers reached across the aisle and overwhelmingly passed a $153 million adjustment to the state’s current two-year budget, the House Republican minority leader couldn’t resist the urge to drop the “s” bomb. As in “government shutdown.” Which, according to Rep. Ken Fredette, R-Newport, could […]

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GIRLS BASKETBALL: McAuley stops Scarborough

PORTLAND – What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? Don’t ask the McAuley Lions, whose narrowest margin of victory this season has been eight points, against Deering on Jan. 5. Otherwise, they’ve regularly beaten – obliterated, actually – their opponents by as much as 30, 40, 50 points or more. So the […]

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LOOKING BACK – Issue of Feb. 20, 2003

School districts across the state are getting their first look at next year’s state funding for education, and locally it doesn’t look good. Cape is looking at a reduction of $486,000 in state aid for education and Scarborough is looking at a cut of a little over $600,000. South Portland will actually see a $500,000 […]