SCARBOROUGH- Libby-Mitchell Post 76, based in Scarborough, has marked its first 10 years of resuming the name Libby-Mitchell Post 76 on its uniform fronts by naming its “Players of the Decade” team. Libby-Mitchell has drawn from different high schools through the past 10 years. Scarborough kids and Cape Elizabeth kids now team up to make […]
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Libby-Mitchell post 76 names players of the decade
SCARBOROUGH- Libby-Mitchell Post 76, based in Scarborough, has marked its first 10 years of resuming the name Libby-Mitchell Post 76 on its uniform fronts by naming its “Players of the Decade” team. Libby-Mitchell has drawn from different high schools through the past 10 years. Scarborough kids and Cape Elizabeth kids now team up to make […]
Libby-Mitchell post 76 names players of the decade
SCARBOROUGH- Libby-Mitchell Post 76, based in Scarborough, has marked its first 10 years of resuming the name Libby-Mitchell Post 76 on its uniform fronts by naming its “Players of the Decade” team. Libby-Mitchell has drawn from different high schools through the past 10 years. Scarborough kids and Cape Elizabeth kids now team up to make […]
Cape Elizabeth police log – 8/15
Arrests Tuesday, July 31 Corey Doughty, 18, of Cape Elizabeth, on Wells Road, on charges of burglary and violation of conditions of release. Saturday, Aug. 4 Jeremy P. Pettersen, 34, of Saco, on Charles E. Jordan Road, on charges of operating after suspension and a warrant charging criminal mischief. Summonses Tuesday, July 31 Hunter Blondin, […]
Scarborough Notes – 8/15
Election notice Nomination papers are now available at the town office for November municipal elections, with two town councilors (Jessica Holbrook and Carol Rancourt), three school board members, (Jane Wiseman, Jacquelyn Perry and Robert Mitchell) and two sanitary district trustees (Nick Rico and Ben Viola) at the end of their terms. Rancourt is termed out […]
Briefs – 8/15
SMCC gets ?fire grant Southern Maine Community College in South Portland will receive a grant in the amount of $286,368, according to U.S. Sen. Susan Collins. The money is being allocated through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Fire Prevention and Safety (FP&S) Grants Program. The Fire Prevention & Safety Program supports projects that enhance […]
A new chapter for South Portland Public Library
SOUTH PORTLAND- This past spring, Cape Elizabeth resident John Leasure happened to be driving by the South Portland Public Library at the corner of Broadway and Cottage Road when he saw something odd. What was odd, he says, was that for the first time in years, he could actually see the building. Shrubbery in front […]
DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE – Talking about unspeakable evil
I had to make phone call to what I assumed was a homegrown Maine business. All I wanted to do was ask a few routine questions. How could I have known that I was about to enter one of the most inhumane telephone torture chambers I’d ever experienced – a tele-cell of horrors so diabolical […]
DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE – Talking about unspeakable evil
I had to make phone call to what I assumed was a homegrown Maine business. All I wanted to do was ask a few routine questions. How could I have known that I was about to enter one of the most inhumane telephone torture chambers I’d ever experienced – a tele-cell of horrors so diabolical […]
POLITICS AND OTHER MISTAKES – Flunking out
I’m surprised Republican Gov. Paul LePage hasn’t stumbled over the obvious solution to reforming Maine’s education system: Turn control of the state’s schools over to former GOP Gov. John “Jock” McKernan. McKernan, who occupied the Blaine House (although not with anywhere near the same fervor as recently convicted Occupy Maine protestors) from 1987 to 1995, […]