WESTBROOK – Central Maine Power Company is getting ready for Hurricane Sandy, which is forecast to move up the East Coast and make landfall in New Jersey early next week. Utility trucks are fueled and equipped and key CMP personnel are holding periodic pre-storm planning sessions to discuss staffing levels and finalize storm-response plans, according […]
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CMP prepares for hurricane; offers storm safety tips
WESTBROOK – Central Maine Power Company is getting ready for Hurricane Sandy, which is forecast to move up the East Coast and make landfall in New Jersey early next week. Utility trucks are fueled and equipped and key CMP personnel are holding periodic pre-storm planning sessions to discuss staffing levels and finalize storm-response plans, according […]
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Council to choose among six candidates for school board post in South Portland
SOUTH PORTLAND – South Portland has received six applications to a one-year appointment on the Board of Education and plans to conduct interviews in public within “the next couple of weeks.” The applicants are: Jeffrey McDonald of Providence Avenue; Roger Allen of Mitchell Road; Ralph Baxter Jr. of Simmons Road; Pam Koonz Canarie of Sawyer […]
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GIRLS SOCCER: Scarborough knocks out Sanford in quarters
SCARBOROUGH – Having allowed a grand total three goals during the regular season, the Scarborough girls’ soccer team isn’t used to having to bounce back from a late second-half concession. The way they rebounded against Sanford on Wednesday night, you would have thought they were seasoned pros. After dominating most of the first 60 minutes […]
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GIRLS SOCCER: Scarborough knocks out Sanford in quarters
SCARBOROUGH – Having allowed a grand total three goals during the regular season, the Scarborough girls’ soccer team isn’t used to having to bounce back from a late second-half concession. The way they rebounded against Sanford on Wednesday night, you would have thought they were seasoned pros. After dominating most of the first 60 minutes […]
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Group may reveal Fort Williams site
CAPE ELIZABETH – The Fort Williams Foundation, an independent nonprofit formed in 2000 and dedicated to the preservation and beautification of Cape Elizabeth’s signature site, has commissioned a $35,000 study to see if its worth unearthing Battery Blair, one of the more historically significant spots in the 90-acre park. That “feasibility study” is expected to […]
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EDITORIAL – Much at stake for ailing dairy industry
When the 2008 federal Farm Bill expired on Sept. 30, the milk income-loss contract program expired with it, leaving thousands of dairy farmers without a much-needed cushion against falling milk prices. It was the latest in a series of blows for small farms trying to make it at a difficult time, and it highlights just […]
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR – 10/25
Donovan for ?Town Council I am writing to share my endorsement of Bill Donovan for Town Council of Scarborough. Bill Donovan is a childhood friend of mine, and he is a highly qualified candidate. Bill Donovan was a star athlete in High School, and went on to Dartmouth College where he excelled in football. He […]
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR – 10/25
Donovan for ?Town Council I am writing to share my endorsement of Bill Donovan for Town Council of Scarborough. Bill Donovan is a childhood friend of mine, and he is a highly qualified candidate. Bill Donovan was a star athlete in High School, and went on to Dartmouth College where he excelled in football. He […]
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Cape Elizabeth police log – 10/25
Logs Sunday, Oct 7 Lost and found – A “large ring of keys” found on school property that “appeared to be keys to the school” was turned in to police and subsequently returned to the school department. The police log does not identify the school in question. Wednesday, Oct. 10 Theft – An unidentified contractor […]