We are thrilled to report that St. Mary’s 2010 campaign to benefit the Falmouth Food Pantry raised $3,000 for this worthy cause at our Book, Bake and Soup Sale. People called us after the article in The Forecaster to donate books, people we didn’t know stopped by with donations, people brought canned goods to our […]
Forecaster Opinion
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Letter: Falmouth school budget bungle
The supposed “decrease” in the Falmouth School Budget needs serious examination. To show a “savings,” reference is made to last year’s budget, not actual expenditures. They were about $800,000 less than budgeted. A fair comparison is to what was actually spent, not proposed. If you look under the hood, this proposed budget looks unfair, unsustainable […]
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Missing Bradford teenager found
The 15-year-old is being evaluated for exposure and possible frostbite.
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Dispatches
AUGUSTA Deadlines approaching for moose permit applications Paper applications for the 2010 moose permit lottery are due by 5 p.m. Thursday at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in Augusta. The applications must be postmarked or delivered to IFW by the deadline, which provides adequate time for the department to process the paperwork […]
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SoPo school custodian injuredbefore entering central office
Andrzej Szpara had a torso injury that was apparently self-inflicted when he went into the School Department’s office, police say.
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Letter: SAD 51 should 'think outside the school house'
The proposed flat budget in SAD 51, which will ultimately result in tax increases for residents of the two towns, cannot be cut any further. The tax increase shouldered by North Yarmouth and Cumberland residents is not providing improvements in facilities, it is not expanding or improving programs and it is not improving any element […]
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Editor's Notebook: Staying focused, but fresh, under the dome
I recently finished reading Stephen King’s mammoth new novel, “Under the Dome.” It’s a nearly 1,100-page page-turner about what happens to folks in the fictional Maine (where else?) town of Chester’s Mill after an invisible, indestructible dome suddenly cuts the community off from the rest of the world. In a way, it’s like the dome […]
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The Universal Notebook: Don't throw the public under the bus
Apparently, the Maine Department of Transportation has been conducting something called the Portland North Alternative Modes Transportation Study since 2008, studying whether to link either Lewiston-Auburn or Bath-Brunswick by either commuter passenger rail or rapid transit buses. Of course, we wouldn’t know that by reading local newspapers. Other than a Press Herald report on the […]
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Global Matters: When duty calls, will we answer?
I arrived at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport shortly after midnight, and among the throng awaiting my fellow passengers was a uniformed gentleman holding a small sign bearing the logo of a hotel and my name. I made eye contact and he signaled me to meet him on the other side of the corridor formed […]
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Superintendent's Notebook: Setting budget priorities
Budgets represent a community’s priorities. As I crafted my 2010-2011 budget for the Portland Public Schools, I faced the challenge of meeting students’ needs and moving our district forward, while keeping costs affordable for taxpayers. Fortunately, more than 100 residents representing a broad cross-section of our city already had identified priorities for the school district […]