SOUTH PORTLAND – South Portland’s Secondary School Facilities Committee was formed about six years ago to develop recommendations to improve the city’s aging high school and middle schools. For most of that time, the group has focused on developing a plan to renovate and expand the high school. However, city voters in 2007 rejected a […]
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Union rejects school furlough day
SOUTH PORTLAND – A plan to address a school budget shortfall by holding a furlough day for South Portland teachers and staff is now off the table after one employees’ union rejected the idea. On Feb. 10, the South Portland Administrators Association, the South Portland Teachers Association, the South Portland Educational Support Professionals Association and […]
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Bill may allow police traffic cameras, set guidelines for use
SOUTH PORTLAND – Proposed state legislation to ban new cruiser-mounted traffic cameras like the ones South Portland police recently acquired could be amended to allow use of the technology under guidelines to protect public privacy. Sen. Dennis Damon, a Hancock County Democrat, proposed the legislation to ban the cameras in Maine. But he said this […]
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Murky future for plan to fix SoPo High
SOUTH PORTLAND – The South Portland Board of Education on Monday heard a formal presentation on a $41.9 million plan to renovate and expand South Portland High School, but when the proposal might go to voters remains uncertain. The board at a workshop meeting two weeks ago had informally agreed not to recommend sending the […]
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Schools demand more state aid
Area school districts, including Scarborough, South Portland and Cape Elizabeth, are denouncing the Legislature for what they say have been unpredictable and unfair cuts to education aid, and are asking for a change to the state funding formula. The Scarborough Board of Education voted last week to approve the Resolution Seeking Fair, Equitable, and Transparent […]
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Parking fees at Fort Williams set for vote
CAPE ELIZABETH – Cape Elizabeth voters this spring will be asked once again whether they favor parking fees at popular Fort Williams Park. The Town Council on Monday voted in favore of a pay/display system for parking fees that would begin on April 1, 2011, according to the town’s Web site. The fees would enable […]
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Kids' theater relocates to South Portland
Gemma Cannon has only one complaint about her 9-year-old daughter’s love of theater: She doesn’t want to do anything else. Three years ago, Cannon’s daughter Rose started taking classes at Stages, a theater school for kids, and it’s completely consumed her since then. “She needs a little space to learn how to swim,” Cannon said. […]
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'Forgotten' health field cited
If you’ve ever had surgery in a hospital or dentist’s office, or undergone a procedure like a colonoscopy, chances are a nurse anesthetist put you to sleep so you wouldn’t feel any pain. And you probably don’t remember a thing about it. “There are a lot of people that don’t know what we do because […]
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'Forgotten' health field cited
If you’ve ever had surgery in a hospital or dentist’s office, or undergone a procedure like a colonoscopy, chances are a nurse anesthetist put you to sleep so you wouldn’t feel any pain. And you probably don’t remember a thing about it. “There are a lot of people that don’t know what we do because […]
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A Voice from Cape – Public school pay-to-play sports: It’s elitist
The increasing use of fees for participation in interscholastic sports is bad public policy. And it’s elitist. Ironically, the Cape Elizabeth School Board almost brags that it instituted pay-to-play some years ago, ahead of other area schools. Here is one definition of elitist: “Entitlement enjoyed by members of certain groups by virtue of their superiority, […]