Advocates, including students and parents, speak out on the proposal at an event organized by Flavors Hook Kids Maine.
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Cape Elizabeth plans to return to voters with another school plan next year
School Board members and town councilors agree that better communication about the project and more collaboration is needed to secure residents’ approval for new elementary and middle schools.
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South Portland votes against contributing funding to asylum-seeker housing
Among the reasons for denying the funding is that there is no guarantee the Portland project would house asylum seekers now living in South Portland, councilors say.
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Scarborough Community Thanksgiving returning in-person next week
There’s room for 400 at the table starting at 11 a.m. Thanksgiving day.
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Vote overturns town center zoning amendments in Cape Elizabeth
The controversial revisions, designed to pave the way for an affordable housing project, were repealed in a citizens referendum, 3,090 tp 2,888.
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Cape Elizabeth’s school project rejected at polls
Voters turn down the request to borrow $115.9 million for the project, 3,817 to 2,337.
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Scarborough voters scrap library expansion
A $12.9 million bond referendum for the project fails at the polls Tuesday, 7,097 to 4,817.
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Incumbents returned to Town Council in Cape Elizabeth
Councilors Penny Jordan and Caitlin Jordan are re-elected, and Caitlin Sweet and Philip Saucier were elected to School Board.
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Size, timing at center of Scarborough library expansion vote
Voters will decide Nov. 8 whether to approve borrowing $13 million toward the project’s $16 million total.
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Cape Elizabeth’s contested zoning changes go to voters
A referendum to overturn rules that would have allowed an affordable housing development in the town center is on the Nov. 8 ballot.