SCARBOROUGH – There is little doubt among Scarborough officials that Wentworth Intermediate School needs replacing. What would then happen to the existing school, however, has not yet been decided. The Wentworth Building Committee, which is now formulating plans for the construction of a new school that will likely go before voters in November, met Monday […]
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Future of Wentworth school buidling uncertain
SCARBOROUGH – There is little doubt among Scarborough officials that Wentworth Intermediate School needs replacing. What would then happen to the existing school, however, has not yet been decided. The Wentworth Building Committee, which is now formulating plans for the construction of a new school that will likely go before voters in November, met Monday […]
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Scarborough Beach parking plan wins board backing
SCARBOROUGH – The Sprague Corp. is one step closer to constructing its controversial new beach facility at Scarborough Beach. After a lengthy meeting on March 31, in which excerpts from more than 25 letters were read into the record and more than a dozen people spoke, the Scarborough Zoning Board of Appeals sided with the […]
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South Portland police log – 4/7
Arrests March 19 Melissa Dawn Bowden, 22, of South Portland, on Grandview Avenue on a charge of domestic violence assault. Scott H. Beebe, 23, of Scarborough, on Maine Mall Road on a charge of operating under the influence. March 20 Jeremy M. Ciarfella, 26, of Billerica, Mass., on Western Avenue on an outstanding warrant. A […]
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Dill, Maietta in race to replace Bliss in Senate
SOUTH PORTLAND – South Portland Republican Louis Maietta Jr. will face Democratic state Rep. Cynthia Dill of Cape Elizabeth in the race to represent Maine State Senate District 7. The winner will finish the term being vacated by state Sen. Larry Bliss, D-South Portland, who is leaving to take a job in California. At a […]
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EDITORIAL – Bail system reform long overdue
In the first two parts of its series on the state bail system, which has run in this newspaper, the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting demonstrated how bail commissioners are usually lacking in legal training, and sometimes unaware of a defendant’s history when setting bail. In the third part of the four-part series, running […]
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Masterworks music mix
SOUTH PORTLAND – Bluegrass, an American roots music defined by upbeat tempos played with fiddles, banjos and other stringed instruments, is not a genre typically found in a high school choral group’s repertoire. And for the 100 area students presenting Carol Barnett’s “The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass,” last weekend as part of the annual […]
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Scarborough police log – 4/6
Arrests March 28 Latia L. McInnis, 24, of Portland, on Payne Road on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer. A juvenile, 16, on Payne Road on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer. Theresa M. Blaisdell, 41, of Alfred, on Cabela Boulevard on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE – Wink if you've heard this
We were all down at the Stop-n-Talk the other morning, drinking coffee and talking about the weather, how warm it’s been some mornings and if anyone knew if it had anything to do with Al Gore and global warming. No one did. After we’d exhausted the weather-related stuff and the mail still hadn’t been sorted […]
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BAIL SYSTEM, PART 3: Inconsistencies seen as threat to due process
Jon Gale, a Portland attorney, periodically serves as “lawyer of the day” in district court, representing defendants in arraignments. The defendants have already had their bail set by one of the state’s bail commissioners, independent contractors whose position was created by the Legislature 128 years ago. What Gale sees in those bail decisions demonstrates one […]