SCARBOROUGH — A new group of Scarborough residents has started weighing in on what a new downtown should eventually look like. The Downtown Development Committee was scheduled to meet for the first time Jan. 7. Town Manager Tom Hall said the committee and its work is a part of the 2018 tax finance district agreement […]
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A survivor’s message: Don’t carry it alone
More than 25 years after a traumatic assault, a local woman expresses her thanks to Scarborough Police.
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SoPo pot ordinance changes inch forward
SOUTH PORTLAND — The city council hasn’t finished revising the city’s ordinance on marijuana-related businesses, but one councilor thinks proposed changes will address the growing number of applicants seeking licenses. Changes include a provision that marijuana businesses must be 1,000 feet away from all so-called sensitive use locations, adding to the current 300-foot distance from […]
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Popular park pandemic project
One Cape Elizabeth resident has put the pandemic’s isolation to good use, creating a new scale model that captures a bygone era of Fort Williams.
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South Portland athletic director wins national award
SOUTH PORTLAND — For Todd Livingston, athletics have always been a major part of his life, so much so that sports motivated him to stay in school, even in college. “If it weren’t for sports I’m not so sure I would have made it,” Livingston said. But he did make it and now, in his […]
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Scarborough buys historic Masonic lodge building for $398,000
The Town Council voted to buy and renovate the Masonic lodge building at 649 Route 1 for $398,000.
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Cape’s Maxwell Farm completes conservation deal
The 76-acre property is now preserved as working farmland in perpetuity, thanks to an easement paid for by the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust and the Maine Farmland Trust.
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Legislator raises new call for old state flag
Rep. Sean Paulhus of Bath has hopes to revert the state flag back to one that was used in the early 1900s.
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SoPo buys ‘piggery’ property for conservation
The city is putting up $1.5 million with the understanding that it will get nearly $1 million back from a developer next year.