Arrests Wednesday, March 21 Philip D. Caiazzo, 21, of Gorham, on County Road at 1:07 a.m., on charges of burglary, criminal mischief and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon. Lamanz A. Cooper, 24, of Scarborough, on Holmes Road at 1:09 p.m., on charges of possession of marijuana and violating bail conditions of release, and for […]
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Scarborough police log – 3/29
Arrests Wednesday, March 21 Philip D. Caiazzo, 21, of Gorham, on County Road at 1:07 a.m., on charges of burglary, criminal mischief and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon. Lamanz A. Cooper, 24, of Scarborough, on Holmes Road at 1:09 p.m., on charges of possession of marijuana and violating bail conditions of release, and for […]
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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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Seeing the light
SCARBOROUGH – Last fall, when Scarborough High School senior Daniel Farley out-essayed his Environmental Club of Scarborough peers for a 50-hour internship with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, he could have killed time on almost anything to earn his $500 stipend. After all, he was pretty much left to his own devices, allowed to […]
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No tax hike for Scarborough's Wentworth school plan
SCARBOROUGH – For Scarborough voters who had to hold their noses while checking “yes” last November to a $39.1 million bond to rebuild Wentworth Intermediate School, town officials have good news – they’ve found a way to pay that debt with no impact to the tax rate. With interest rates for municipal bonds at an […]
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No tax hike for Scarborough's Wentworth school plan
SCARBOROUGH – For Scarborough voters who had to hold their noses while checking “yes” last November to a $39.1 million bond to rebuild Wentworth Intermediate School, town officials have good news – they’ve found a way to pay that debt with no impact to the tax rate. With interest rates for municipal bonds at an […]
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South Portland Farmers Market may be on the move
SOUTH PORTLAND – When South Portland city councilors consider the city’s fledgling – and some say failing – farmers’ market at their April 2 meeting, they may have more on the docket that a request to post an attention-getting sign on Broadway. Just prior to the council’s March 19 meeting, City Manager Jim Gailey confirmed […]
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South Portland Farmers Market may be on the move
SOUTH PORTLAND – When South Portland city councilors consider the city’s fledgling – and some say failing – farmers’ market at their April 2 meeting, they may have more on the docket that a request to post an attention-getting sign on Broadway. Just prior to the council’s March 19 meeting, City Manager Jim Gailey confirmed […]
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EDITORIAL – Maple syrup marketing could sweeten industry
Northern Maine is potato country. During the three decades ending in 1958, Aroostook County produced more potatoes than any other state. Generation after generation of County residents remember falls spent in the fields, working the harvest. Potatoes are as Maine as lobsters and lighthouses. Maine remains one of the nation’s top spud growers. But when […]
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QUINN'S CORNER – Worship site gives rise to new theory
Due to carbon dating, an ancient ruin in southeast Turkey, called Edessa by the Eastern Orthodox Church and Gobekli Tepe by the Turks (which translates as “hill with potbelly”), is now believed to support a revolutionary theory about what part religion has played in the history of man. Long thought to be a Byzantine ruin, […]