Yarmouth approves school budget, elects officials

Town voters overwhelmingly approved a $19.3 million school budget for 2011-12 today and elected representatives to the Town Council and School Committee.

Gorham voters reject turf field, school improvements

The vote was 1,272 to 309 against the proposal, according to the town’s website.

Cumberland voters approve gravel pit ban

The vote was 862 to 507 in favor of the first citizen-initiated referendum to change an ordinance in the town’s history, according to Town Manager Bill Shane.

Falmouth voters reject school reuse proposal

The vote was 1,938 to 1,777 against the ballot issue, according to Town Clerk Ellen Planer.

Voters to decide on local issues, spending plans

One of the most contentious ballot proposals would convert two Falmouth schools into a community center and a public library.

With Personal Ponies, she helps disabled children

CUMBERLAND – Leah Twomey has seen the magic happen again and again, when a child with severe mental and physical disabilities responds to the velvet nuzzle of a Shetland pony. “It awakens children in a way that other therapies just can’t,” Twomey said. “The ponies come up and put their heads in their laps. They […]

These tekkies like living on the (cutting) edge

YARMOUTH – Around town and beyond, they’re known as the Bens — Ben McNaboe and Ben Nickerson — members of Yarmouth High School’s class of 2011 who have distinguished themselves as crusaders for technology in the classroom. The Bens became best friends as freshmen, drawn together by a shared passion for technology. Both products of […]

GREAT GRADS 2011

Tireless volunteer just happy to carry on her family’s legacy of community service

Cumberland voters weigh gravel pit ban

Residents will rule on an initiative that would restrict work on the Copp property, and on the school budget.

Wait’ll you get wind of this …

There are plenty of reasons why Olivia Fowler’s favorite course at Freeport High School is engineering and technology.

Olivia, a sophomore, is training for her pilot’s license and one day hopes to work for NASA. But the joy she gets from the elective engineering course taught by Jon Amory is more immediate.

“Mr. Amory said, ‘Build a wind tunnel,’ and we figured out how to do it.”