STANDISH – Hollywood couldn’t have scripted a better ending to the Western Class A finals as Scarborough’s Joe Cronin stepped to the plate in the bottom of the seventh inning. Cronin, who pitched a complete game on the mound, had just given up the tying run to Cheverus in the top of the inning, and […]
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Knightville parking back to square one in South Portland
SOUTH PORTLAND – The South Portland City Council has circled the block on Knightville parking issues, arriving Monday back where it started four months ago with a plan to eliminate angled spaces in favor of parallel spots only. That left one downtown merchant fuming Tuesday morning and suggesting that the state may not have missed […]
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Legislators lose local primary races
Whatever area Democrats are looking for in a legislator, it’s not legislative experience. The same was true for county commissioners Tuesday, as all three locally contested primary races went to the candidate lacking the benefit of time logged under the State House dome. State Senate, District 7 (representing Cape Elizabeth, South Portland, southernmost Scarborough) The […]
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POLITICS AND OTHER MISTAKES – Goodbye normal street
The U.S. Senate campaign in Maine is about to swerve off the blacktop, crash through the puckerbrush and plunge into the swamp, dredging up a mass of slime and stinking muck. In other words, the fun starts now. In the primary election (which, as I write, hasn’t yet occurred), the Democrats have undoubtedly chosen a […]
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POLITICS AND OTHER MISTAKES – Goodbye normal street
The U.S. Senate campaign in Maine is about to swerve off the blacktop, crash through the puckerbrush and plunge into the swamp, dredging up a mass of slime and stinking muck. In other words, the fun starts now. In the primary election (which, as I write, hasn’t yet occurred), the Democrats have undoubtedly chosen a […]
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SOFTBALL – Bogdanovich leads South Portland over Scarborough
STANDISH – With two runners on in the top of the sixth inning, South Portland coach Ralph Aceto turned to an unlikely source to extend his team’s 3-1 lead: freshman Michelle Moreau, who went in as a pinch-hitter for Libby Grant. “We got down to Libby Grant and I just had a funny feeling,” said […]
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'Make it a good world'
SCARBOROUGH – The Scarborough High School class of 2012 was only days into its first-grade year on 9/11. It may not be surprising, then, that change has been the one constant in their academic careers, especially in the last four. “This class has faced unbelievable amounts of change since we came to Scarborough High School,” […]
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'Make it a good world'
SCARBOROUGH – The Scarborough High School class of 2012 was only days into its first-grade year on 9/11. It may not be surprising, then, that change has been the one constant in their academic careers, especially in the last four. “This class has faced unbelievable amounts of change since we came to Scarborough High School,” […]
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BROKEN HOME – Haitian quake survivor now a South Portland graduate
SOUTH PORTLAND – During graduation season, there’s no shortage of students proud for what they’ve accomplished, having come from broken homes, but only one student can say that and mean it, literally. Jessy “Nika” Francois of South Portland turned her tassel June 3, a mere 29 months after a monster earthquake leveled her Haitian homeland. […]
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Good news leads to open enrollment at Kaler school
SOUTH PORTLAND – One year after South Portland’s Kaler Elementary School transformed into a “Community School of Exploration and Learning,” the three-year roll-out of new instruction methods appears to be working – so much so in fact that enrollment for next year has been opened to children citywide. But it’s not just local administrators cheering […]