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A community survey is underway and other opportunities will be available for the public to list their priorities for climate change mitigation strategies.
The Cumberland-North Yarmouth district will set up a building committee of stakeholders, and numerous subcommittees, to help guide the project, with the goal of opening a new pre-K and Grade 1 school in three years.
This year's festival program, including multiple appearances by American Idol's Julia Gagnon, was a little harder to pull off because of a drop-off in the number of volunteers.
The 35-year-old poetry and arts journal this summer features the works of 17 Ukrainian poets and 12 Ukrainian artists "that reveal the depth of the Ukrainian soul in these trying times."
The Turn the Tide Coalition, with members from throughout Cumberland County, seeks to put an end to phone-centered childhoods and get kids thinking creatively, playing and interacting again.
A mooring business owner and a "regular presence" at the Falmouth Town Landing, Kourinos is honored for saving the life of a woman trapped in a submerged car in Portland last November.
The town says the project will broaden the commercial tax base while some residents say it will hurt other local businesses and they don't like that it would be open around the clock.
The candidates discuss goals, the school budget, the district's Intercultural Awareness and Inclusion Committee, and the appropriate role of cell phones in school settings.
Mark Franco, Tanner Storey, Denise Thorsson, Geoffrey Michalak, Helene DiBartolomeo, Andrew Magoun and George Turner are running for three seats on the Town Council.
Jeffrey DiBartolomeo, Jesse Lamarre-Vincent, Abraham Suresh and Sean Thurston are competing for the two three-year seats for Cumberland. Suzannah Dowling and Sara Rose are squaring off for the open three-year school board seat representing North Yarmouth.
The inclusion of a $3 million turf field in Cumberland-North Yarmouth's 'One Campus School Project' has dominated public conversation around a $53.5 million school bond that goes to voters next month, but supporters say the whole package is a wise investment.
Town operating expenses will increase $1.29 million this year, a 6.8% increase largely due to cost of living adjustment increases for staff and other investments in personnel. Residents will vote on the $49.9 million school budget June 11.
Councilors Mark Segrist, Shirley Storey-King and Ronald Copp are stepping down and one at-large seat remains open, with three new candidates looking to be elected.
Ellen Turner, a caring, longtime special educator who died last fall, would be proud of her granddaughters' fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, they said.
'When they put their own stories on stage, they understand on a different level what it’s like to put your story out there and the responsibility that comes with that,' said Isaac Kestenbaum, director of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.
The Cumberland-North Yarmouth school board votes in favor of pursuing the $53.5 million project, which also includes funding for a turf field for the high school and four new classrooms at Mabel I. Wilson School.
April 30 is the deadline for providing feedback on the plan that will guide the town policy decisions ranging from housing to transportation in the coming years.
Seven-year-old Carter Torina of Yarmouth has amassed a following for his trade nights, which are now available online, and he'll host a show at Hadlock Field this summer.
In wake of voters' defeat of the Drowne Road project, it's going to be tough to make a "meaningful dent in the affordable housing crisis," the town council chair says.
North Yarmouth will be drafting its Climate Action Plan over the next year. Cumberland adopted its own plan in 2021, with Yarmouth doing so in 2022, followed by Falmouth in 2023.
MaineHealth's Cardiac Fellows program and NorthStar division have come together to bring cardiac care to patients who can't travel or get access to outpatient services.
Some residents are concerned they're seeing more deer than usual, and a listening session next week will help a state wildlife biologist determine if there is a problem and its extent.
Six classrooms could be added to the 2-story, 70,000-square-foot building if student population projections bear out, designers tell the SAD 51 board this week.
The reaction to North Yarmouth resident Lisa Wentzell's book "A Dog and His Boy" about her developmentally disabled son has been "pretty amazing" and has kept the family busy in the year since its release.