CAPE ELIZABETH – There may be a little pain in the pocketbook even for Maine’s most affluent community, at least if the municipal budget unveiled to town councilors Monday remains unchanged through final adoption April 26. Although municipal spending is down $93,000 – largely from shifting the $250,000 municipal pool budget off the town books […]
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Cape Elizabeth budget proposes 4.2 percent tax increase
CAPE ELIZABETH – There may be a little pain in the pocketbook even for Maine’s most affluent community, at least if the municipal budget unveiled to town councilors Monday remains unchanged through final adoption April 26. Although municipal spending is down $93,000 – largely from shifting the $250,000 municipal pool budget off the town books […]
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Cape Elizabeth budget proposes 4.2 percent tax increase
CAPE ELIZABETH – There may be a little pain in the pocketbook even for Maine’s most affluent community, at least if the municipal budget unveiled to town councilors Monday remains unchanged through final adoption April 26. Although municipal spending is down $93,000 – largely from shifting the $250,000 municipal pool budget off the town books […]
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EDITORIAL – Student achievements show money well spent
The Maine Drama Festival’s regional one-act competition was held last weekend at eight sites across the state, with the top two high schools at each site advancing to the state championships, set for March 23-24 at Yarmouth High School. Among the regional winners were Cape Elizabeth, Westbrook and Windham. Bonny Eagle, Scarborough and South Portland […]
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EDITORIAL – Student achievements show money well spent
The Maine Drama Festival’s regional one-act competition was held last weekend at eight sites across the state, with the top two high schools at each site advancing to the state championships, set for March 23-24 at Yarmouth High School. Among the regional winners were Cape Elizabeth, Westbrook and Windham. Bonny Eagle, Scarborough and South Portland […]
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Scarborough may power up with new boilers
SCARBOROUGH – With two of the six boilers in his town hall “dead in place,” and the other four living on borrowed time at 20 years old, Scarborough Town Manager Tom Hall says he has “about six weeks” to decide what he’s going to do about it. The system of networked boilers, he said, was […]
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Cape Elizabeth advances to drama state finals
WINDHAM – The cast and crew from Cape Elizabeth High School were among the winners last weekend at the Maine Drama Festival’s 2012 one-act play regional competition. As part of the competition, regional events took place in eight high schools across the state. Two schools from each site moved on to the state championships, set […]
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STORM REPORTS – Cyberbullying, through a decades-old lense
“Which family will win this year?” reads the program for Scarborough High School’s one-act play, referring to the town’s annual Lottery. It is a question whose full implications are not known until the end of the play, when it becomes clear that winning is not truly winning at all – the victor is stoned to […]
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South Portland gets grant to watch waterfront
SOUTH PORTLAND – A $1 million Department of Homeland Security grant given to the city of Portland has netted South Portland $95,040 of its own to protect its side of the Fore River and Casco Bay. The money, including $76,000 to the fire department for a Department of Environmental Protection-designed skiff and $19,040 to the […]
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South Portland police log – 3/15
Arrests Friday, Feb. 24 Mario Robert Pissolatto, 37, of Philadelphia, Penn., on Cummings Road at 1:53 a.m., on charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence and criminal speeding. Robert Renna, 26, of Scarborough, on Main Street at 4:34 p.m., on a charge of violating conditions of release. Rayquan T. Drew, 24, of […]