CAPE ELIZABETH – The Rotary Club of South Portland/Cape Elizabeth is partnering with the Veterans Affairs Maine Healthcare System (VA Maine HCS) to help address the problem of homelessness among veterans. At any given time, there are almost 1,000 homeless people in Maine and, of that number, approximately 12 percent are veterans suffering from lack […]
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Rotary, VA helping homeless vets
CAPE ELIZABETH – The Rotary Club of South Portland/Cape Elizabeth is partnering with the Veterans Affairs Maine Healthcare System (VA Maine HCS) to help address the problem of homelessness among veterans. At any given time, there are almost 1,000 homeless people in Maine and, of that number, approximately 12 percent are veterans suffering from lack […]
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Q&A with ?Stephanie Cox – ‘This is all my favorite things’
CAPE ELIZABETH – Cape Elizabeth resident Stephanie Cox took the reins of Project GRACE on Nov. 1, following a lengthy effort to replace the nonprofit’s previous executive director, Mary Rollo, who moved on in July after five years to take a job in admissions at Catherine McAuley High School in Portland, where her daughter is […]
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Scarborough firm lauded for energy project
SCARBOROUGH – A solar farm in Colorado, designed in the Scarborough offices of Stantec, has been recognized as one of the top solar energy projects of the year by Power Engineering magazine and the RenewableEnergyWorld.com website. The Alamosa Solar Project, which went online in April as the world’s largest concentrating photovoltaic facility, received second-place honors […]
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BOYS BASKETBALL: Scarborough rips Windham
SCARBOROUGH – The Windham High School boys basketball team traveled to Scarborough Tuesday night, and given a choice probably would have preferred the storm outside the gym – freezing cold rain blowing sideways – to the Storm that awaited them inside. The Red Storm (2-2) had four players score in double figures, using a press […]
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Moving up Mill Creek
SOUTH PORTLAND – The Mill Creek shopping area in South Portland, innovative in the 1950s as the site of Maine’s first strip mall, is now being eyed as a model for mixed-use development in the 21st century. The 31.58-acre area, made up of 33 lots bounded by the Casco Bay Bridge, the Greenbelt Trail, Ocean […]
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Cape Elizabeth, Scarborough and South Portland schools react to shooting
In the wake of last week’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., that claimed the lives six adults and 20 children, local officials are treading a line between reassessing their own security measures while maintaining an air of normalcy for students. Superintendents in South Portland and Scarborough issued letters to parents on […]
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EDITORIAL – In tragedy’s aftermath, some rational strategies
Everyone has been to a place like Sandy Hook Elementary. Every day, countless parents drop children off at school and take their safe return as a given. That illusion of safety was broken last Friday. That the victims were so young is almost unbearably heartbreaking. That the site was an elementary school, a place so […]
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EDITORIAL – In tragedy’s aftermath, some rational strategies
Everyone has been to a place like Sandy Hook Elementary. Every day, countless parents drop children off at school and take their safe return as a given. That illusion of safety was broken last Friday. That the victims were so young is almost unbearably heartbreaking. That the site was an elementary school, a place so […]
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Cape Elizabeth Police log – 12/20
Logs Tuesday, Dec. 4 Theft – A South Portland resident reported the theft of a laptop while at “a public building” in Cape Elizabeth. Disturbance – At 9 p.m. police got a report of a person banging on the side of a home on Spurwink Avenue. Police found “an elderly woman who did not know […]