CAPE ELIZABETH — The first few days of summer mean local farmers will begin to open their fields for berry picking – just in time for the Cape Farm Alliance’s 10th annual Strawberry Festival. With an exceptionally dry spring, Penny Jordan, of Jordan Farms, said strawberry season came early this year, meaning peak picking will land right […]
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Cape middle school to hire second social worker
CAPE ELIZABETH — In an effort to address mental health in a more comprehensive manner, Cape Elizabeth Middle School is broadening the scope of social work. Fiscal year 2019’s budget as passed includes approximately $73,000 in funding for a second social worker at CEMS. Finance Director Catherine Messmer said the position could cost up to $87,000, […]
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Scarborough board to discuss superintendent's contract
SCARBOROUGH — The board of education will meet Thursday, June 21 in executive session to discuss Superintendent Julie Kukenberger’s contract. The board will meet at 7 p.m. at the municipal building on Route 1. According to the agenda, a motion will be taken to go into executive session “for discussions concerning the Superintendent’s contract/evaluation, not to return […]
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Organ music coming back to St. Hyacinth Church
WESTBROOK — Music streamed, albeit briefly, out of the 114-year-old pipe organ at St. Hyacinth Church during a service last week for the first time in five years. “The congregation applauded on the way out,” said Paul Concannon, a member of the church and chairman of its building committee. The organ is on its way to […]
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Westbrook teacher plans World Refugee Day celebration
WESTBROOK — Westbrook Middle School teacher Ekhlas Ahmed is hoping the World Refugee Event she is planning this Saturday will help help bring the community together and shed some positive light on the many cultures of the city’s residents. “This is a celebratory event for the immigrants and refugees who sacrificed do much to find safety […]
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Shaw Brothers gets go-ahead for work on legacy land
GORHAM — The Shaw Brothers Family Foundation has town approval to grade three lots for future, agricultural-related commercial tenants at the 258-acre site the foundation is preserving on lower Main Street. The lots are available for leases and well situated to bolster town tax revenue. Jon and Danny Shaw, owners of Shaw Brothers Construction in Gorham, […]
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Teachers end year with updated contract
WESTBROOK — After working 10 months under an expired contract, the teachers and other staff members in the Westbrook Education Association will end the school year with an updated contract in place. “From what I understand, it was almost a unanimous vote of the teachers and was a unanimous vote of the School Committee. I […]
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Gorham seeks solutions to impact of growth
Growth in Gorham will be a Town Council topic at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 26. GORHAM — Town councilors next week will hold a workshop to discuss ways to cope with the impact of the town’s residential growth on school costs and enrollments and other demands on municipal services. Residential growth and its impact on Gorham schools is […]
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Library rehab, gifts to historical society open more space
WESTBROOK — The Westbrook Historical Society has reaped the benefits of work being done to rehabilitate the original section of Walker Memorial Library. As part of the decade-long project to update the original Walker Memorial Library, which opened in 1894, the library has donated much of its local history collection housed there, including a quilt made […]
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Flag Day goodwill
Gene Tanguay, left, and Steve Gagnon, representatives from Westbrook Assembly 356 Knights of Columbus, pass out flags to patrons of Dunkin Donuts at 29 Main St. in Westbrook on Flag Day, June 14. The goodwill project was the idea of Bill Cassidy of Standish. Bob Poitras and Steve Gagnon handed out flags at the Dunkin […]