Buxton Selectmen Chairman Cliff Emery will not be on the June ballot. BUXTON — Six candidates are vying for two available three-year terms on the town’s Board of Selectmen while its chairman, Clifford Emery, is not seeking reelection. Emery could not be reached by the American Journal’s deadline Wednesday. In the only School Administrative District […]
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Director steps down from her 'hometown library'
WESTBROOK — The Walker Memorial Library is in the midst of transition as the board of regents looks for a new library director and the funds to hire a deputy director, a position cut from the budget in recent years. Rebecca Albert stepped down as director for family reasons this week four years after taking […]
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Here's Something: Use tech to save the world, win $1B
It seems any discussion of climate change is accompanied by much doom and gloom. Liberals and socialists in our government use fear of climate change to convince us our capitalism-based economy will wreck the world in 12 years if we ignore the greenhouse gases building up in the atmosphere. Conservatives, skeptical of what’s causing temperatures […]
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Gorham Notes
Students saw Notre Dame Twenty-eight Gorham High School students visited Paris, France, this week and toured the Notre Dame Cathedral the day before fire ravaged the landmark built in the Middle Ages. “We have checked in with all students and chaperones and all are well,” Gorham Superintendent Heather Perry said Tuesday. The Gorham group visited […]
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Red tape in Cape Elizabeth snares proposed lumber business
CAPE ELIZABETH — There might be a new lumberyard at the town’s northern gateway by early summer. Mike Friedland, owner of Willard Square Home Repair, hopes to expand his handyman and renovation business by also selling retail lumber on Ocean House Road. Friedland has agreed to purchase the former Cumberland Farms gas station and convenience store […]
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Politics & Other Mistakes: Reforming the referendum
In every referendum campaign, there are two sides: people who want change and people who don’t. That’s more complicated than it appears. In line with traditional ideological definitions, it would be simple to characterize the forces for change as liberals and the opposition as conservatives. But in today’s screwy political climate, that’s not always the […]
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Looking Back
April 20, 1994 Alderman Lionel Dumond is asking the City Council to rename Westbrook’s Wayside Drive as William L. Clarke Drive. Clarke, who retired last November after 38 years at city clerk, is “a man who has touched the lives of everyone in our city in an important and special way,” Dumond wrote. Clarke remains […]
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Cape Elizabeth Police Beat: April 19
Arrests 4/10 at 10:10 a.m. Barbara Rigo, 61, of South Portland, was arrested on Route 77 by Officer Aaron Webster on charges of operating after suspension and violating conditions of release. Summonses 4/10 at 1:35 p.m. A 16-year-old female was issued a summons on Shore Road by Officer Jeffrey Gaudette on a charge of speeding. […]
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Correction
The Gorham tax rate would increase 9 cents under Town Manager Ephrem Paraschak’s proposed budget. Taxes on a home with an assessed value of $250,000 would rise by $22.50. Because of the way the tax increase was listed in a budget summary from the town, those figures were incorrect in the April 11 edition of […]
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South Portland waterfront landowners ponder ferry service to Portland
PORTLAND — There may soon be a new way to get from South Portland to Portland, and it won’t involve cable cars. On April 12, Richard Packard, a new owner of the 30 acres of South Portland waterfront land once owned by developer John Cacoulidis, said passenger ferry service to Portland is under serious consideration. “There is […]