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January 22, 2021

Hospice of Southern Maine hires Stewart Steel as IT director

SCARBOROUGH — Hospice of Southern Maine in Scarborough has hired Stewart Steel as its Information Technology director. In this role, Steel is responsible for the leadership and coordination of information technology services including strategic planning of technical infrastructure. Steel will also serve as HSM’s security officer to assure system security, emergency preparedness, and disaster recovery […]
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January 22, 2021

Letters to the editor, Jan. 22

How is this a good deal and how is it not a tax increase? To the editor, When the pandemic first arrived, the Town of Scarborough correctly, but what appeared to be temporarily, shut down the transfer station in the industrial park off Pleasant Hill Road. This facility was apparently managed and run by Cassela’s […]
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January 22, 2021

Camden Conference and Scarborough Public Library partner to offer virtual programs

The Scarborough Public Library partners each year with the Camden Conference to bring a series of original programs to the community in anticipation of the annual conference held in February. Virtual talks related to the 2021 Camden Conference theme, The Geopolitics of the Arctic: A Region in Peril, feature three esteemed speakers. […]
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January 22, 2021

Scarborough residents urged to adopt a fire hydrant

Even though we lost all the snow we received in December, now that we are officially in the winter season I wanted to remind everyone of the Scarborough Fire Department’s Adopt a Hydrant program. In Scarborough we have a variety of different types of fire hydrants. Our community is so large we are actually covered […]
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January 22, 2021

Students earn honors, graduate from colleges, universities

Local students named to the dean’s list of the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, include: Elliot Dumais and Nicholas Fiorillo, both of Scarborough; and Garrett Higgins of Gorham. Matthew Henderson of Scarborough and Courtney Cushing of Gorham were named to the fall dean’s list at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts. Bridget Brett and Sam […]
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January 21, 2021

Women credit Esther Residence with changing their lives

The Saco transitional home celebrates its 15th anniversary.
Published
January 21, 2021

Library Links: The wheels on the bus go round and round

McArthur Library in Biddeford is taking steps t o get books and more in students’ hands.
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January 21, 2021

Town & Country FCU provides hundreds of meals to frontline health care workers

If ever the phrase, “Out with the old and in with the new,” was applicable, it is when combined with the year 2020. To mark the end of a challenging year for so many people and to ring in 2021 with a new beginning, Town & Country Federal Credit Union’s ‘Local Helping Local’ initiative is […]
Published
January 21, 2021

Seashore Trolley Museum recognizes two local volunteers

KENNEBUNKPORT — Two local men were among the over 500 donors and volunteers the Seashore Trolley Museum thanked at a virtual Volunteer & Donor Appreciation evening on Dec, 29. The event was to show gratitude to those who supported the museum through a challenging year in 2020. The museum was able to remain open for roughly […]
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January 21, 2021

Saco Scoop scoops up major award

SACO —Add award winner to the list of adjectives describing downtown organization Saco Main Street’s Saco Scoop Ice Cream Shop as the Maine Development Foundation’s Maine Downtown Center, (MDC) program chose The Scoop as its 2020 MDC Project of the Year. According to the MDC, which serves as a statewide resource for preservation-based downtown revitalization […]