Whitney Frew, 21, of 133 Cumberland St., Cornish, was summonsed Feb. 8 on Roundwood Drive on a charge of unlawful possession of scheduled drug. Katherine Philbrick, 30, of 16 Orchard St., Scarborough, was summonsed Feb. 9 on Route 1 on a charge of operating with suspended registration. Nelson Kerrick, 67, of 111 Hill St., Biddeford, […]

When bagging a cartload of groceries, employees would ask, “Paper or plastic?” Now, for residents of South Portland, the question may be: “Do you want a bag or did you bring your own?” Starting Tuesday, March 1, two new local ordinances will take effect. One imposes a 5-cent fee for all single-use bags, both paper […]

Girl Scouts Madeline Shields and Michaela Mallozzi, both of Scarborough, recently served as an honorary pages in the Maine Senate. They were welcomed to the Senate Chamber by state Sen. Amy Volk, a Republican of Scarborough. During the legislative session the girls helped deliver messages to senators and helped the chamber staff with their daily […]

Camille Braun, a senior at Cape Elizabeth High School, has been named a member of the Carleton College Chinese Music Ensemble for the 2016 winter term. The Carleton Chinese Music Ensemble, under the direction of world-class Pipa artist Gao Hong, was established in 2004 and has since performed to much acclaim at the Minneapolis Institute […]

The Scarborough Town Council wants to take its time reviewing a set of recommendations from the Energy Committee, which suggest that encouraging residents to compost and recycle more is a better alternative to decreasing the town’s cost to dispose of household waste than implementing a pay-to-throw system. The committee gave its report at a workshop […]

Three seniors at Cape Elizabeth High School have been recognized as Presidential Scholar candidates, an honor accorded to less than 1 percent of high school seniors across the country. The local students – Jasper Hansel, Will Steidl and Natalie Vaughan – are now eligible to attend a week-long trip to Washington, D.C., to participate in specially scheduled events featuring a […]

Three seniors at Cape Elizabeth High School have been recognized as Presidential Scholar candidates, an honor accorded to less than 1 percent of high school seniors across the country. The local students – Jasper Hansel, Will Steidl and Natalie Vaughan – are now eligible to attend a week-long trip to Washington, D.C., to participate in specially scheduled events featuring a […]

Piper Shores, a senior living community on the ocean in Scarborough, has hired Brian Kenney as its new facilities director. Kenney is a Maine native who was trained as an engineer at Maine Maritime Academy and who has spent 15 years in facilities management, most recently in the Windham School Department and at Idexx Laboratories […]