SCARBOROUGH – The Scarborough Town Council gave Town Manager Tom Hall some guidelines to follow in developing his 2010-2011 municipal budget proposal: maintain services, avoid layoffs, provide reasonable compensation for employees and limit the impact on taxes. Hall gave an outline of his $20.8 million municipal budget proposal to the council last week, and councilors […]
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Scarborough to purchase Higgins Beach parking lot
Scarborough’s purchase of a privately owned parking lot at Higgins Beach will guarantee continued public access to the popular town beach, councilors said last week in approving the deal. The Town Council voted unanimously on March 17 to authorize the purchase of the approximately 1.3-acre parking lot, guaranteeing that it will stay undeveloped and open […]
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Scarborough to purchase Higgins Beach parking lot
Scarborough’s purchase of a privately owned parking lot at Higgins Beach will guarantee continued public access to the popular town beach, councilors said last week in approving the deal. The Town Council voted unanimously on March 17 to authorize the purchase of the approximately 1.3-acre parking lot, guaranteeing that it will stay undeveloped and open […]
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Pay-to-play may be wave of the future
Schools all over Maine are facing a grim reality this budget season – there’s less money available in the form of state education aid. That has led to belt-tightening and forced schools to find creative ways to raise money. One such way is through participation fees for sports and extracurricular activities, commonly known as “pay-to-play.” […]
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EDITORIAL – Time for MPA to look at pay-to-play
As the cost of delivering education has increased, more and more school districts have turned to participation fees in order to avoid cutting athletics and other extracurricular activities. Schools such as Gray-New Gloucester High School, Cape Elizabeth High School and Massabesic High School in Waterboro have already instituted a so-called “pay-to-play” system, and this week […]
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Jobs cut, activity fees added in Scarborough school budget
SCARBOROUGH – The Scarborough Board of Education last week approved a new $34.9 million budget that would eliminate more than 34 jobs of teachers and other staff and impose fees on students for co-curricular activities. The budget now goes to the Town Council, which will hold a series of workshops and hearings before voting May […]
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Letters to the editor, March 24, 2010Waynflete students right to take stand
Kudos to the Waynflete students who wrote letters to the editor expressing their opinions on wind power. Although my views differ on some of the points expressed, I applaud them for their reasoned arguments and their admirable level of interest in public policy and civic engagement (“Students’ opinions get blasted on the Web,” March 14). […]
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Rural school has formula for success
A web of support keeps teens from dropping out, and almost all of them go on to college.
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Candidate proud of ski business he built
I am writing in response to an article (“Risky business: Les Otten and the rise and fall of American Skiing Co.”) written by Marian McCue and John Christie published in your paper on March 12. The article was both disappointing and misleading because it was largely based on recycled information – inaccurate and incomplete newspaper […]
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We all win when vernal pools are protected
In 2007, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection began regulating development near significant vernal pools. That action worried some landowners, who saw the new rules as an overreaction to the environmental lobby and an unnecessary infringement on property rights. But those claims downplay the importance of vernal pools, and can scare people away from taking […]