What ever happened to making a quick trip to the store for a few items? Remember that kind of shopping? You’d get in your car, drive to the store, park, go in and grab a cart, go up and down the aisles getting what you needed, get in the checkout line, read the salacious headlines […]
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Football schedule changes pay off
SCARBOROUGH – This year was a radically different one for local high school football. With the move of two teams, Westbrook and Marshwood, from the Class A Southwestern Maine Activities Association to the Class B Campbell Conference, the remaining Class A West football teams had to drastically revamp their schedule this fall. And in an […]
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Football schedule changes pay off
SCARBOROUGH – This year was a radically different one for local high school football. With the move of two teams, Westbrook and Marshwood, from the Class A Southwestern Maine Activities Association to the Class B Campbell Conference, the remaining Class A West football teams had to drastically revamp their schedule this fall. And in an […]
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Cape Elizabeth police log – 11/24
Arrests Thursday, Nov. 10 Luke D. Huber, 48, of Cape Elizabeth, on Two Lights Road, on charges of domestic violence criminal threatening and aggravated reckless conduct. Friday, Nov. 11 Robert J. White, 21, of Cape Elizabeth, on Russet Lane, on two outstanding warrants. Summonses Tuesday, Nov. 8 Carmita McCoy, 54, of Cape Elizabeth, on Old […]
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Cape Elizabeth police log – 11/24
Arrests Thursday, Nov. 10 Luke D. Huber, 48, of Cape Elizabeth, on Two Lights Road, on charges of domestic violence criminal threatening and aggravated reckless conduct. Friday, Nov. 11 Robert J. White, 21, of Cape Elizabeth, on Russet Lane, on two outstanding warrants. Summonses Tuesday, Nov. 8 Carmita McCoy, 54, of Cape Elizabeth, on Old […]
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CURRENT calendar – 11/24
Wednesday, Nov. 23 South Portland Community Blood Drive, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., South Portland Community Center. In loving memory of Tom Bakker, a South Portland Lion, and sponsored by South Portland and Thornton Heights Lions Clubs. Call 1-800-RED-CROSS to make an appointment. Sunday, Nov. 27 South Portland Winter Farmers’ Market, Old Hamlin School/South Portland Planning Office, […]
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LOOKING BACK – Issue of Nov. 21, 2001
(Editor’s note: Looking Back is a new weekly column including news items reported 10 years ago in The Current, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.) Issue of Nov. 21, 2001 Although plans for the new development on the Scarborough Downs property may be six months away, developers and local officials agree they likely […]
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Hard times, helping hands
SOUTH PORTLAND – For anyone else, it might have been a simple homework assignment, but for Christina Guimond it was a call to action. A social work major at the University of Southern Maine, Guimond was reviewing relevant news articles for a class assignment when she read about recent cuts to the state’s home-heating subsidy. […]
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South Portland planning for the future
SOUTH PORTLAND – South Portland’s comprehensive plan is due for its decennial update next year. Even so, says City Planner Tex Haeuser, the document hasn’t had a really thorough rethink in more than 20 years. Recall for a moment what South Portland looked like in 1991, and you can get some sense of the urgency […]
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Board begins review of new Rudy's on the Cape
CAP ELIZABETH – The Cape Elizabeth Planning Board has begun to review plans for a new Rudy’s on the Cape, but the biggest concern for some neighbors is not a newly rebuilt restaurant, but a second building of undetermined purpose that could go up on the same site. Running Tide Road resident Paul Woods bought […]