CAPE ELIZABETH – The South Portland mother of a 3-year-old boy who was attacked by a rabid fox in Cape Elizabeth’s Two Lights State Park last week is disputing the official version of events. Within hours of the July 7 incident, multiple media sources were quoting Department of Conservation spokeswoman Jeanne Curran, who said the […]
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Business buffer shot down as South Portland enacts smoking ban
SOUTH PORTLAND – The South Portland City Council has adopted a smoking ban, deemed by at least one citizen to be “the most idiotic thing ever passed.” “You people that drove here tonight inside your cars put more pollution in my air than if I smoked 200 cartons of cigarettes,” Ray Lee told the council. […]
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Business buffer shot down as South Portland enacts smoking ban
SOUTH PORTLAND – The South Portland City Council has adopted a smoking ban, deemed by at least one citizen to be “the most idiotic thing ever passed.” “You people that drove here tonight inside your cars put more pollution in my air than if I smoked 200 cartons of cigarettes,” Ray Lee told the council. […]
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3D images, price tag for Wentworth school plan in Scarborough
SCARBOROUGH – In the months leading up to last week’s unveiling of a price tag to replace Scarborough’s Wentworth Intermediate School, the building committee’s chairman, Paul Koziell, promised over and over again it would ring up less than a similar proposal presented to voters in 2006. True to his word, the dollar figure quoted at […]
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Cape Elizabeth police log – 7/14
Summonses Tuesday, June 28 Christine Brzoska, 29, of Portland, on Ocean House Road at 12:15 a.m., for operating a motor vehicle after license suspension. Ian Raymond, 19, of South Portland, at the Purpoodock Club at 12:40 a.m., for possession of alcohol by a minor. Christopher Harle, 19, of South Portland, at the Purpoodock Club at […]
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QUINN'S CORNER – Numbers add lost up to a losing War on Drugs
To continuously repeat a futile action is a definition of insanity. A good example of such insanity is the so-called War on Drugs. At the coffee shop this week, a saddened Lucius Flatley apologized to the coffee drinkers for “beating a dead horse.” He said he realized the drug war “is an old topic, so […]
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PENSION CRISIS: Pension changes lighten budget load
AUGUSTA – The year is 2020, just nine years from now, and the state is facing one of its worst budget crises in years. (Editor’s note: This is part 6 of an occasional series on the effects of the state’s pension costs. The series began last July.) The year is 2020, just nine years from […]
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CURRENT calendar – 7/14
Thursday, July 14 Concerts in the Park, 6:30 p.m., at the gazebo at Memorial Park, Scarborough. Featuring Coos Canyon. Free parking at the high school and free shuttle to the park. Outdoor concessions. Rain site: Scarborough High School auditorium. Toddler Thursdays storytime, for children age 18 months and older with an adult, 10:15 a.m., at […]
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New South Portland farmers market adds to local bounty
SOUTH PORTLAND – As Caitlin Jordan waited on a steady stream of customers Sunday at the Scarborough Farmers’ Market, she speculated on why such things have grown roots in recent years. “It’s really taken off,” she said. “It’s been amazing. I would hope it’s because people want to be eating healthier.” Jordan, who runs Alewive’s […]
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New South Portland farmers market adds to local bounty
SOUTH PORTLAND – As Caitlin Jordan waited on a steady stream of customers Sunday at the Scarborough Farmers’ Market, she speculated on why such things have grown roots in recent years. “It’s really taken off,” she said. “It’s been amazing. I would hope it’s because people want to be eating healthier.” Jordan, who runs Alewive’s […]