SCARBOROUGH – Oftentimes the most important lessons do not involve a lecture or a test. These lessons come in classrooms that do not have four walls and are not given by a single teacher. For a group of 11 Scarborough High School students, the last week and a half has been one of those lessons, […]
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EDITORIAL – It's enough to make you sick
If you’re not angry, the saying goes, then you are not paying attention. The anger was swift and overwhelming earlier this month when the news spread that the U.S. Department of Agriculture was filling school lunches with “pink slime.” As social media spread disgust for the product – a low-cost filler for ground beef made […]
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EDITORIAL – It's enough to make you sick
If you’re not angry, the saying goes, then you are not paying attention. The anger was swift and overwhelming earlier this month when the news spread that the U.S. Department of Agriculture was filling school lunches with “pink slime.” As social media spread disgust for the product – a low-cost filler for ground beef made […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly
QUINN'S CORNER – Courtside fouls
Among democratic world governments, the American system is unique. Nowhere else is supreme political power vested in judges and courts. Everywhere else, elective/political bodies are the ultimate source of laws. In fact, the idea that courts may overrule the Legislature was not part of the original American design – it simply became fixed through custom. […]
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Scarborough explores outsourcing of school custodial services
SCARBOROUGH – As it heads into what town officials concede will be a tough budget year, the Scarborough School Department is looking to save money by outsourcing custodial services at its six buildings – a move the local union promises to oppose. On March 13, the department issued a request seeking cleaning companies capable of […]
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'Correction year' forces tax hike in Scarborough
SCARBOROUGH – Town Councilor Judith Roy may have made the most honest assessment of Scarborough’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year, presented March 21 by Town Manager Tom Hall. “I choked a little,” she said. That’s because gross spending is up 5.86 percent, to $64.2 million. Cumberland County taxes are up 5 percent, to […]
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'Correction year' forces tax hike in Scarborough
SCARBOROUGH – Town Councilor Judith Roy may have made the most honest assessment of Scarborough’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year, presented March 21 by Town Manager Tom Hall. “I choked a little,” she said. That’s because gross spending is up 5.86 percent, to $64.2 million. Cumberland County taxes are up 5 percent, to […]
Posted inCurrent, Southern Forecaster
South Portland tax bill likely to increase
SOUTH PORTLAND – Based largely on hikes in school spending and initial payments on the high school renovation project, South Portland’s budget for the next fiscal year is expected to jump $2.01 million, or 3 percent, to a new high of $71.37 million. The proposed budget breaks down to $28.45 million in municipal spending (up […]
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'Mind' games for Dyer Elementary students
SOUTH PORTLAND – Creative thinking, out-of-the-box ideas and innovation were celebrated and rewarded when about 170 teams from all across Maine descended on the Wells schools Saturday to take part in the state Odyssey of the Mind tournament. Of those teams was a first-time participant from Dyer Elementary School in South Portland. The six-member team, […]
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'I'm so proud to be back' – Q&A with Lauren Springer of Cape Elizabeth
CAPE ELIZABETH – When Cape Elizabeth native Lauren Springer, 32, returned home after seven years as a preschool teacher in Brookline, Mass., she made the jump out of the classroom and into the floral industry. In January, she opened her own shop, Fiddleheads, on Shore Road in Cape Elizabeth, and now Springer has launched “Flowers […]