SOUTH PORTLAND – A two-year effort to bolster the South Portland land bank for preserving open spaces has hit another delay. The South Portland City Council voted 6-1 Monday to postpone a decision on an ordinance to dedicate more proceeds from the sale of city-owned properties to the land bank, which buys and preserves parks […]
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Quinn's Corner – Shades of meaning color judgements
Republican politicians, Fox News and various conservative think tanks blather on about “activist” liberal Supreme Court justices who, according to them, “create their own law.” On the other hand, these folks claim that conservative justices faithfully carry out the exact wishes of the wise men who wrote the Constitution. But these claims are not only […]
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Down the road a piece – A few words to say about Maine?
The other day I got a call from a producer at a radio station in St. Louis. He said every week for a year the station is doing a feature on one of the 50 states and this week it was Maine’s turn. Someone – he didn’t say who – told him that I could […]
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Riverton residents question library automation
One patron describes the proposal to automate the branch at Riverton school as ‘a slow death.’
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Finance regulations look at car dealers
Critics say dealerships can take advantage of customers through unfair financing deals.
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Down The Road A Piece – Just don't call me gibbous
They say the moon, which is 225,745 miles from earth – give or take an inch or two – never gets any closer, despite the fact that on nights when it’s rising and it’s full, it often looks like it’s only a little ways off and you could almost reach out and touch it. How […]
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High school regional championship results and state championship game schedules
Softball Class A regional final South Portland 5 Scarborough 2 Class A state championship Saturday, June 19 at St. Joseph’s College, Standish South Portland vs. Bangor- 4 p.m. Baseball Class B regional final Cape Elizabeth 5 Yarmouth 1 Class A state championship Saturday, June 19 at St. Joseph’s College, Standish Biddeford vs. Oxford Hills-noon Class […]
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High school regional championship results and state championship game schedules
Softball Class A regional final South Portland 5 Scarborough 2 Class A state championship Saturday, June 19 at St. Joseph’s College, Standish South Portland vs. Bangor- 4 p.m. Baseball Class B regional final Cape Elizabeth 5 Yarmouth 1 Class A state championship Saturday, June 19 at St. Joseph’s College, Standish Biddeford vs. Oxford Hills-noon Class […]
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Former festival president denies stealing funds
Priscille Gagnon is accused of misusing over $20,000 from La Kermesse and a condominium association.
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Q&A with Dean Auriemma, Scarborough High School's new principal
SCARBOROUGH – Dean Auriemma, who was named the new principal at Scarborough High School at the June 3 meeting of the Board of Education, spent 14 years in the classroom teaching art. So as he described taking over a school he believes is already a model of achievement, it was no surprise that Auriemma mined […]