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PublishedFebruary 6, 2024
Portland Meetings: Feb. 7-14
Wed. 2/7 3:30 p.m. Creative Portland Zoom Wed. 2/7 5 p.m. Historic Preservation Zoom, City Hall Thu. 2/8 5 p.m. Finance Committee Zoom Mon. 2/12 3 p.m. Fish Pier Authority Zoom Tue. 2/13 8 a.m. Legislative/Nominating Zoom Tue. 2/13 4:30 p.m. Planning Board Zoom, City Hall Tue. 2/13 5:30 p.m. HHS/Public Safety Zoom Wed. 2/14 […]
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2024
Northern Meetings: Feb. 8-15
Chebeague Island Sat. 2/10 9 a.m. Department Budget Workshop Town Hall Mon. 2/12 6:30 p.m. Planning Board Rec Center Cumberland Mon. 2/12 7 p.m. Town Council Town Hall Tue. 2/13 6 p.m. Tri-Community Meeting Town Hall Falmouth Thu. 2/8 8 a.m. Comp. Plan Committee Town Hall Mon. 2/12 5 p.m. Workforce Housing Workshop Town Hall […]
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2024
Coastal Journal Meetings: Feb. 9-16
Bath Tue. 2/13 6 p.m. Community Forestry Committee Rec Department Brunswick Mon. 2/12 11:30 a.m. Social Services Committee Town Hall Mon. 2/12 4 p.m. Climate Action Task Force Zoom, Town Hall Tue. 2/13 4:30 p.m. Teen Center Advisory People Plus Tue. 2/13 6 p.m. Planning Board Zoom, Town Hall Wed. 2/14 8 a.m. Trust Fund […]
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PublishedFebruary 5, 2024
Letter: Little Falls baseball field expenses shortsighted
Despite the uproar all summer over taxes and spending, on Sept. 5 the Gorham Town Council frivolously allocated over a quarter of a million dollars to pay for lights on a Little League baseball diamond at Little Falls. Like the movie, this giant expense comes with the promise that if we build it, they will […]
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PublishedFebruary 5, 2024
Letter: Drowne’s descendent protests use of willed land for housing
I am a descendant as a great great granddaughter of Elizabeth Ingraham Drowne. It was Elizabeth who gave the town of Cumberland 100 acres and a house in her will. The stipulation was that it be used for education. At one point the town had a dump on this beautiful land, clearly against the requirements […]
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PublishedFebruary 5, 2024
Forum: In Cumberland, the right project at right time and place
I chaired the Cumberland Affordable Housing Task Force. We delivered our report to the council on Jan. 23, 2023. The task force consisted of 10 Cumberland residents who volunteered to undertake this task. Starting in July 2022, we worked very hard on this complex issue delivering a unanimous report reflecting members’ mutual respect, collaboration, problem […]
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PublishedFebruary 5, 2024
Letter: Honor the agreement about Drowne land in Cumberland
Cumberland residents are being asked whether the town should build affordable housing on land formerly owned by Elizabeth Drowne. The town obtained the land when it accepted an offer in the will of Mrs. Drowne in 1892. The intent of her offer was to have the property benefit education and required that the land never […]
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2024
Letter: Forecaster’s Heather Martin and Abdi Iftin bright spot for reader
I have come to look forward to the weekly opinion columns written by Heather D. Martin and Abdi Nor Iftin. Both writers have a way with words that makes me feel as if they are speaking directly to me. Last week’s essays hit the mark. Martin writes of the late, great Ashley Bryan, who in […]
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2024
Letter: Americans are footing the bill for genocide
With a glossy Tiger Beat centerfold of Bibi N. thumbtacked above a cluster of L.L.Bean glamping bags, this unnamed D.C. townhouse is the bipartisan slumber-party pad of many an elite D.C. warmonger. For last Saturday night’s saber-rattling clique, the pre-beddy-bye game was “Would You Rather?” Around the circle they went. First was Lindsey, then Antony, […]
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2024
Letter: Kind neighbor, random act of kindness in Falmouth
Nice things do happen on icy days. Early on the morning of Jan. 25, my husband was carefully navigating the icy driveway with the trash container when a black pickup blocked our driveway. A lady stepped out and said “I am taking this for you as it is icy here.” The recycling container from the […]
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