Backpack Club awarded The Gray-New Gloucester Backpack Club has received a Drive for Education award from Berlin City for the third consecutive year, giving the program the financial security needed to stock its shelves through the end of the school year. The club is made up of volunteers, including students, school staff and parent volunteers. […]
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Scarborough council’s message to manager: Limit tax hike to 3%
SCARBOROUGH — The Town Council on Wednesday gave staff a 3 percent cap when it comes to potential increases to the tax rate as a result of the fiscal year 2020 municipal budget. The town’s current tax rate is $16.49 per $1,000 assessed value. Town Manager Tom Hall said the council has been setting budget goals […]
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Westbrook Notes
L. Arthur Randall of Westbrook received the Beef Producer of the Year award from the Maine Beef Producers Association at its annual meeting Jan. 19 in Augusta. The association’s newsletter said Randall was recognized for breeding and merchandising high quality Hereford and crossbred feeder cattle. Jazz benefit at WHS The Westbrook High School Music Department […]
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Another busy year ahead for Planning Board
WESTBROOK — It was a busy year for the Westbrook Planning Board in 2018 and City Planner Jennie Franceschi expects 2019 to be no different. “It is a very exciting time,” Francheschi said. Over the course of 18 meetings in 2018, the board held 33 public hearings and 39 workshops and weighed in on eight land […]
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We Love to Eat
Community meal – Thursday, Feb. 21, noon Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Smothered beef, $5. Haddock supper buffet – Saturday, Feb. 23, 5 p.m., Living Waters Church, Parker Farm Road, Buxton. Suggested donation $8, $4 child, $20 family. Baked ham dinner – Saturday, Feb. 23, 5-6 p.m., Casco Village Church UCC, 941 Meadow Road, (Route 121), […]
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Gorham Notes
Trent Stevens, a Gorham Middle School eighth grader, reads his winning Madison Excellence in Writing essay to his great-grandfather, Oland Morton, a World War II veteran, in the lobby last week during the Gorham School Committee meeting. Gorham Middle School Principal Robert Riley is flanked by Brady Smith and Grace Johnson, runners-up in the James […]
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Looking Back
Feb. 23, 1994 Westbrook Junior High School officially became the Fred. C. Wescott Junior High School Wednesday when the School Committee voted 6-1 to change the name, honoring the late mayor, who died of lung cancer Dec. 29. The only vote against came from Martha Day, chairman, who said she didn’t think it was “the […]
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Proposed Gorham school budget up 3.2 percent
Gorham School Committee will study Superintendent Heather Perry’s proposed budget in a workshop on Saturday, March 2. GORHAM —The superintendent’s proposed school spending plan for the fiscal year beginning July 1 tops $40 million, an increase of more than $1.2 million from the present year. Superintendent Heather Perry handed her budget to School Committee members […]
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Graze locality: South Portland may OK goats for land care
SOUTH PORTLAND — Forget about lawnmowers and pesticides. The city is clearing a path for livestock to be a primary means of vegetation control. At a City Council meeting Tuesday night, Sustainability Director Julie Rosenbach presented proposed ordinance amendments that would allow and regulate the temporary use of goats and sheep for prescribed grazing. The council […]
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The Universal Notebook: Enemy of the good
When I saw that Gov. Janet Mills was warming to the idea of an electric corridor through Maine from Canada to Massachusetts, I figured the honeymoon was over. But then I knew when I voted for her that Mills is not as progressive as I am and that I was going to have to take […]