Not far from Maine, in an area about the size of Aroostook County, the inhabitants have applied for statehood as the 51st U.S. state. This new group is unique in that it operates as a direct democracy rather than a republic. They have no Legislature. Every citizen participates in law making. Their style of government […]
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Higgins Beach residents ask for end to free parking
SCARBOROUGH – If the Higgins Beach residents get their way, free parking in their popular beachfront community will soon be a thing of the past. At the June 26 meeting of the Scarborough Ordinance Committee, Bill Donovan, chairman of the Higgins Beach Association Civic Committee, presented a draft ordinance that would limit parking in 11 […]
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Pet store sales targeted in Scarborough
SCARBOROUGH – Just three weeks after buying a pet store on the Payne Road in Scarborough, Barbara Cross has found herself singled out as the first target in a statewide drive to restrict the retail sale of puppies and kittens. At the June 26 meeting of the Scarborough’s ordinance committee, Gorham resident Lynne Fracassi submitted […]
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Global warming seen as Scarborough flood risk
SCARBOROUGH – Officials in Scarborough are raising the roof over global warming – literally. At the June 26 ordinance committee meeting, Peter Slovinsky of the Maine Geological Survey asked the town to amend its floodplain ordinance to increase “freeboard” – the distance between the floorboards of a home and the high-water mark of a 100-year […]
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Scarborough's pint-sized prodigy plays the blues
SCARBOROUGH – If you’re of a certain age, you’ve probably watched youngsters whiling away the hours on video games like Guitar Hero and wondered why they don’t just learn to play the real thing. Well, that’s exactly what Justin Lindsay did. After mastering the blazing push-button finger action required to conquer the game’s plastic, guitar-shaped […]
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Scarborough's pint-sized prodigy plays the blues
SCARBOROUGH – If you’re of a certain age, you’ve probably watched youngsters whiling away the hours on video games like Guitar Hero and wondered why they don’t just learn to play the real thing. Well, that’s exactly what Justin Lindsay did. After mastering the blazing push-button finger action required to conquer the game’s plastic, guitar-shaped […]
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Q&A with Ben Macisso, South Portland K-9 handler
SOUTH PORTLAND – There’s a new officer on patrol in South Portland fresh out of the police academy – a 2-year-old Belgian Malinois named is Ralph. As the latest addition to the city’s K-9 program, Ralph has worked a daily beat since his June 8 graduation alongside handler Ben Macisso, a Scarborough native and nine-year […]
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Bike group has big plans for South Portland
SOUTH PORTLAND – For many locals, the most promising feature of the new $65.1 million Veterans Memorial Bridge that opened last week linking Portland and South Portland across the Fore River is its 12-foot-wide pedestrian and bicyclist pathway. It was two years from the start of construction to last Thursday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony, and the pathway […]
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LOOKING BACK – Issue of July 3, 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 3, 2002 Joan Gordon and her partner, Clark Rundell, are biomedical entrepreneurs. They saw a problem: laboratories don’t have good control samples for testing DNA. Many […]
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Scarborough High School honor roll
Fourth quarter 12th grade HIGH HONORS: Dayna Ankermann, Brittany Bona, Dominique Burnham, Haley Carignan, Samantha Couillard, Shauni Cowan, Andrew Doran, Alexander Henny, Kelsey Howard, Peter Krahe, Nicholas Manderelli, Conor McCann, Samuel Moore, Kathryn Odden, Allison Orr, Zachary Pelczar, Meghan Porter, Kaitlin Reynolds, Marco Risbara, Susan Rundell, Mary Scott, Caitlin Stahl-Hodgkins, Mariah Volk, Fallon Weiss. HONORS: […]