SCARBOROUGH – It’s five games into the season and the perennial powerhouse Scarborough Red Storm softball team is sitting at 5-0. At home Friday, the Red Storm made quick work of the Bonny Eagle Scots (0-3) with a 12-0 win in five innings on Friday. On a day when runs were supposed to be at […]
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Scarborough softball blanks Scots, looks ahead to Trojans
SCARBOROUGH – It’s five games into the season and the perennial powerhouse Scarborough Red Storm softball team is sitting at 5-0. At home Friday, the Red Storm made quick work of the Bonny Eagle Scots (0-3) with a 12-0 win in five innings on Friday. On a day when runs were supposed to be at […]
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POLITICS AND OTHER MISTAKES – Ordinary people
Democracy is a messy system of government. Its basic tenets encourage the ignorant masses to react based on emotional appeals, thereby overwhelming the reasoned judgments of the educated elite. This produces such contradictory results as the resounding defeats of several measures that would have put limits on Maine government’s ability to tax the populace and […]
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Fireworks store to open in Scarborough
SCARBOROUGH – Maine’s largest fireworks store is slated to open “by the first week of June” in The Gateway Shoppes complex in Scarborough that houses Cabela’s, among other retailers and restaurants. “We’re very excited,” Bill Weimer, vice president of Ohio-based Phantom Fireworks, said on Monday. “We think Scarborough is a great area. We’ve been treated […]
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South Portland school board cuts $136K from budget
SOUTH PORTLAND – In a special workshop session help Wednesday to comply with a City Council mandate for a lighter touch to tax bills, the South Portland school board trimmed $136,000 from its proposed $39.6 million operating budget for the next fiscal year. The pullback lowers the expected impact to taxes from a 2.2 percent […]
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Drug suspect jumps from second-story window in South Portland hotel
SOUTH PORTLAND – A drug suspect leapt from a South Portland hotel window early this morning, only to be apprehended in the parking lot, according to a police press release. Anthony Calderon, 30, of Brooklyn, N.Y., jumped out of the second-story window at the Days Inn on the Maine Mall Road. Police had gone to […]
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Drug suspect jumps from second-story window in South Portland hotel
SOUTH PORTLAND – A drug suspect leapt from a South Portland hotel window early this morning, only to be apprehended in the parking lot, according to a police press release. Anthony Calderon, 30, of Brooklyn, N.Y., jumped out of the second-story window at the Days Inn on the Maine Mall Road. Police had gone to […]
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Councilors: Close Hinckley Street for South Portland Farmers' Market
SOUTH PORTLAND – It appears city councilors are set to approve moving the South Portland Farmers’ Market out of Thomas Knight Park, where it struggled though its first summer last year, and onto Hinckley Drive, when the growers come out of winter quarters at the old Hamlin School gym sometime in mid-May. Four of six […]
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Councilors: Close Hinckley Street for South Portland Farmers' Market
SOUTH PORTLAND – It appears city councilors are set to approve moving the South Portland Farmers’ Market out of Thomas Knight Park, where it struggled though its first summer last year, and onto Hinckley Drive, when the growers come out of winter quarters at the old Hamlin School gym sometime in mid-May. Four of six […]
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Parking changes for Higgins Beach
SCARBOROUGH – With the summer season seemingly already at hand, based on recent weather at least, the Scarborough Town Council has taken several steps to address longstanding issues at Higgins Beach. At its April 18 meeting, the council voted 5-1, with only Councilor Karen D’Andrea objecting, to post “No Stopping” signs on Bayview Avenue, to […]