(Editor’s note: Looking Back is a weekly column including news items reported 10 years ago in The Current, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in September 2011.) Issue of July 18, 2002 The town of Scarborough may begin taking homes and properties from owners who have failed to pay back taxes. “The problem here is that […]
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LOOKING BACK – Issue of July 18, 2002
(Editor’s note: Looking Back is a weekly column including news items reported 10 years ago in The Current, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in September 2011.) Issue of July 18, 2002 The town of Scarborough may begin taking homes and properties from owners who have failed to pay back taxes. “The problem here is that […]
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EDITORIAL – With fireworks, payoffs seem minor for noise, nuisance
In February, the Windham Town Council voted to allow the sale and use of fireworks, citing the need for a kind of neighborly responsibility that is difficult to legislate. They found out last week that not everyone was listening. “Over the last three weeks, four weeks, we’ve heard nothing but fireworks,” said Chris Henderson, one […]
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CURRENT calendar – 7/19
Thursday, July 19 Buy Local Scarborough Consumer Day, 4-6 p.m., at Oak Hill Plaza. The event is an opportunity to come out and meet local business owners and support the Buy Local Scarborough. Look for the yellow and blue balloons that will identify Buy Local members. Sign-in will be held at The Study Hall at […]
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MY SIDE OF SOPO – The selling of a bad plan
Alan Greenspan said, “The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is a lack of financial literacy.” I have often commented on the financial illiteracy of the South Portland school board and the City Council. Their ignorance has resulted in millions in excessive taxes being collected and millions in wasteful spending over the past […]
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QUINN'S CORNER – Choice words for ‘God particle’
Last week, the announcement of the discovery by a joint European research group of the Higgs boson – nicknamed the “God particle” – excited Maine leaders of all persuasions. Some were concerned with the presidential race, some with the choice of a replacement for Olympia Snowe, Maine’s favorite daughter. And some were simply figures of […]
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POLITICS AND OTHER MISTAKES – The plot against common sense
Lying is as intrinsic to politics as malt is to beer. Only a fool would attempt to change either one. Unfortunately, major American breweries regularly turn out beer-like products with so little malt that they can legally be sold as bottled water flavored with what tastes like a faint hint of deer urine. On a […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE – Tip of the hat to past taxes
I think it was Ben Franklin who said, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.”?The past few months here in Maine, folks have been talking more about taxes than death. But don’t worry, I have no intention of getting into the tax fray. I won’t even go on record and say whether I’m for death […]
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Old home heating oil dumped illegally in city
Police trace the likely source of 150-200 gallons of the toxic waste to three tanks that had been sold for scrap metal.
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Man summonsed for pestering piping plovers, stealing camera in Scarborough
SCARBOROUGH – A California man who allegedly built a fire within a protected area of Higgins Beach has been summonsed for receiving property belonging to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. According to an IF&W press release, Game Wardens Jason Scott and Peter Herring were on an endangered species protection patrol at about […]