Logs Wednesday, May 4 A Spurwink Avenue resident reported theft by deception, having been overbilled by a salesman who, as it turned out, no longer worked for the company he claimed to represent. Saturday, May 7 A checkbook, cash and credit cards were stolen from the truck of a vehicle at Fort Williams Park. Arrests […]
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$4 gas? Who cares
Hardy bicycle commuters see pedal power as a viable alternative to filling up the tank, even on Maine’s tough roads. Two or three times a week, Mitch Wacksman of Standish tackles his 17.5-mile commute on two wheels rather than four, taking his bicycle from his home in the Whites Bridge Road area to his job […]
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Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly
$4 gas? Who cares
Hardy bicycle commuters see pedal power as a viable alternative to filling up the tank, even on Maine’s tough roads. Two or three times a week, Mitch Wacksman of Standish tackles his 17.5-mile commute on two wheels rather than four, taking his bicycle from his home in the Whites Bridge Road area to his job […]
Posted inCurrent, The Forecaster
Scarborough's mental athletes finish fourth in nation
SCARBOROUGH – It seems like every few years there’s a new team atop the heap in high school sports. But when it comes to mental athletics, Scarborough has a lock. Consider this: The high school academic decathlon team has won the right to represent Maine at the national competition for 22 of the past 26 […]
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Scarborough's mental athletes finish fourth in nation
SCARBOROUGH – It seems like every few years there’s a new team atop the heap in high school sports. But when it comes to mental athletics, Scarborough has a lock. Consider this: The high school academic decathlon team has won the right to represent Maine at the national competition for 22 of the past 26 […]
Posted inCurrent, The Forecaster
From Away – Immigrant, refugee students share 'Sacred Stories'
SOUTH PORTLAND – It happens twice each year, and each time it plays out before a slightly larger audience than the time before. At South Portland City Hall, people who likely don’t look or sound like a lot of Maine residents gather to share with humility, and not a little humor, their tales of how […]
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Final funding found for Shore Road Path
CAPE ELIZABETH – After nearly 20 years, it looks like Cape Elizabeth’s dream of a Shore Road Path will finally become a reality. At its regular meeting Monday, the Cape Elizabeth Town Council voted to appropriate $75,000 from an existing infrastructure improvement capital reserve fund to act as the required local match in the $1 […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE – The more things change …
In the early part of the last century, things were a lot different here in Maine. We think you’ll agree that a lot of things have changed over the last 100 years, if not improved. Long ago, all homes in Maine were heated by wood. It was a difficult procedure that involved having someone cut, […]
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Hundreds turn out to get ‘Into the Mud’ in Gorham
GORHAM – What can we say? It was a mess. Not that that wasn’t the intended result. Hundreds of athletes from across the state turned out in flamboyant costumes with an apparent gluttony for punishment in the University of Southern Maine’s inaugural “Into the Mud Challenge” held in Gorham on Saturday. What they found waiting […]
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Dill: Senate victory a repudiation of negative campaigning
According to Maine’s newest state senator, her victory Tuesday was propelled not by people in favor of school budgets, but by people against negative campaigning. State Rep. Cynthia Dill of Cape Elizabeth downed her Republican challenger, Louie Maietta Jr., by a 2:1 margin in the race to fill the District 7 seat vacated by Larry […]