SOUTH PORTLAND — A summer’s worth of projects in the center of the city are wrapping up in the next couple of weeks. At 10 a.m. Saturday, ceremonies to rededicate Mill Creek Park will be held at the park gazebo, capping the first phase of park improvements. The new shelter for ice skaters at the […]
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Talks continue between Cape Elizabeth gun club, neighbors; safety expert sought
CAPE ELIZABETH — Mediation between the Spurwink Rod & Gun Club and its neighbors is continuing after the Town Council recommended hiring a consultant to review safety at the shooting range. Residents in the Cross Hill Neighborhood have raised concerns about noise, stray bullets and environmental impacts from the club’s 56-year-old shooting range on Sawyer […]
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Design picked for children's garden at Cape Elizabeth's Fort Williams Park
CAPE ELIZABETH — After unveiling the first phase of an intensive redesign of the Fort Williams Park Arboretum this summer, the park foundation has selected a landscape design for an estimated $500,000 Children’s Garden. The Fort Williams Foundation announced last week that a design by Portland-based landscape architects Mitchell & Associates was chosen from four […]
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Brunswick deals with dearth of local candidates
BRUNSWICK — On Nov. 6, three Town Council candidates and one School Board candidate will be elected without opposition. Candidates and town officials see several reasons for the apparent lack of interest residents have in running for local elected office. Barring any successful, last-minute write-in campaigns, incumbent Councilors John Perreault and Suzan Wilson will reclaim their […]
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Economic development firm continues Harpswell meetings
HARPSWELL — When Planning Decisions asked residents how they would like to see their local economy improved, people responded by saying they want to put the town on the map, literally, in a way that would attract more visitors. But at the Portland firm’s first community forum for Harpswell’s economic development plan on Oct. 25, […]
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Wilkinson Park project a priority for South Portland rec director
SOUTH PORTLAND — Wilkinson Park on New York Avenue is quaint, popular and embodies the desires of the family that donated the land to the city. The community center at the edge of the park is less so, according to an assessment presented to city councilors Oct. 22 by Recreation Director Rick Towle. “This has […]
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Gas station arrests lead to drug seizures
SCARBOROUGH — Two women face drug and other charges after their arrests Oct. 30 at a Route 1 gas station, according to Police Sgt. John O’Malley. Tania Margate, 39, of Old Orchard Beach, and 23-year-old Star-Asia Kelley of Brooklyn, N.Y., were arrested around 6 p.m., following an investigation, O’Malley said. After the arrests, O’Malley said […]
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RSU 1 weighs per-pupil cost-sharing formula
BATH — A committee reviewing the effectiveness of the Regional School Unit 1 formula for sharing costs across its communities is considering a per-student assessment model, Superintendent Patrick Manuel said Wednesday. Representatives from all five communities have been meeting since June, and may decide at a Tuesday, Nov. 13, meeting whether to recommend that assessment […]
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WCME returns to Brunswick airwaves promising local focus
BRUNSWICK — Radio industry veteran Jim Bleikamp revived WCME in October after several years of dead air, and said he hopes to make the station a profitable venture by focusing on community news. “We feel there will be a relationship between the extent to which we’re involved in this community and the extent to which […]
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Topsham board corrects truck purchase
TOPSHAM — The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Oct. 25 to purchase a pickup truck from O’Connor GMC, correcting a decision the panel had made a week before. The board voted Oct. 18 to buy the Public Works Department truck from Goodwin Chevrolet. Goodwin had submitted a bid of nearly $34,800, which had already included […]