BATH — The City of Ships enjoyed some key accomplishments in 2012, and more are in the making for 2013. Faced with an uncertain future, the Bath Youth Meetinghouse and Skatepark moved into its new home, the former National Guard Armory on Old Brunswick Road, in July. The dilapidated condition of the Skatepark’s former building, […]
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Scarborough library to close for inventory
SCARBOROUGH — The Scarborough Public Library will close Jan. 2-4, 2013, for inventory. The eBook Cloud Library and Minerva online catalog will be available to Internet users at the library website, and the library will reopen Jan. 5, 2013, at 10 a.m.
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Under close scrutiny, Maine school kitchens get passing grades
PORTLAND — One in six Americans – about 48 million people – get sick from foodborne diseases every year. Worse, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die. The most vulnerable population: children. Those statistics, the latest available from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s 2011 report on foodborne illness, underscore the importance of food safety in schools. In […]
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Yarmouth beach now a no-dog zone in summer
YARMOUTH — Dogs are now banned from Sandy Point Beach during the summer. The Town Council, citing environmental and health hazards, voted unanimously Dec. 20 to prohibit dogs on the Cousins Island beach from Memorial Day to Labor Day. “We fear for the children,” said David Adams, member of the parks and lands committee, which […]
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Yarmouth couple feed a German appetite for reality TV
YARMOUTH — German reality television happens between an antiques store and a hair salon on Main Street. At least some of it does. The office at 358 Main St. is the home of Jynx Productions, a video production company started in 2005 by husband-and-wife duo Johannes Wiebus and Kathleen O’Heron. They shoot, direct, edit and […]
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Canco Woods purchase finalized in Portland
PORTLAND — Canco Woods, the nearly 13-acre urban woodland near Canco Road and Read Street, has been purchased by the city and will be preserved as open space. A neighborhood group, Friends of Canco Woods, had been working since the spring with The Trust for Public Land, a national conservation group based in Portland, to orchestrate a […]
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February target for revised high school drug policy in Falmouth
FALMOUTH — The School Board’s policy committee is confident it has a good sense of what the community wants in a high school drug-and-alcohol policy. Only about 13 people showed up for public input sessions held Dec. 17 and 20, but those who attended provided meaningful feedback, committee Chairman Chris Murry Jr. said. Murry said he […]
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Charity behind the gloss for former pageant queen from Freeport
FREEPORT — A 2010 cosmetics start-up is working to foster inner beauty as well as outer beauty, and hopes to become a global force in the fight against drug addiction. Lipgloss4lives was started in 2010 by dental office manager and Mrs. Maine 2011 Tina Hendricks and salon owner Jill Kelley as a way to put women’s […]
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King looks forward to next session of U.S. Senate
BRUNSWICK — Thirty down, 69 to go. Angus King has his work cut out for him. As you might expect, since his election to the U.S. Senate in November, King has been a busy guy. Last week, the former two-term, independent governor of Maine was counting up the number of other U.S. senators he has […]
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Annual vigil marks heartbreaking year for Portland's homeless
PORTLAND — Friends and supporters of the city’s homeless population gathered on the longest night of the year last Friday to read, one by one, the first names and last initials of the 30 Portland-area homeless people who died this year. This was one of the hardest years on record for these people, according to […]