BRUNSWICK — The town has been deemed a foreign trade zone by the U.S. Department of Commerce Foreign-Trade Zone Board, according to members of Maine’s congressional delegation. The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, which is overseeing the conversion of the former Brunswick Naval Air Station to a civilian facility, applied for the status in 2010. The […]
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Falmouth couple hope to drive attention to missing kids
FALMOUTH — To raise awareness about a missing Maine teenager, and for the adventure, a Falmouth couple will criss-cross the northeast in an annual automotive adventure-rally that starts Saturday. Bill and Valerie Sowles of the Morong Falmouth auto dealership on Route 1 are “Team Goin’ Home,” one of 40 teams participating in the sixth Fireball Run, […]
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Freeport to hold planning session for Hunter, Pownal roads area development
FREEPORT — The town is hosting a public planning session next week on the future of a recently developed recreational fields area. This is the first planning session that brings together all the pieces of the more the more than 250-block area of Hunter and Pownal roads, plus Hedgehog Mountain and the transfer station, Town […]
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Snow removal rules back before Portland City Council
PORTLAND — At its meeting Wednesday night, the City Council will tackle snow removal requirements and changes in an agreement to sell a Bayside property to a private developer. Among the agenda items is a proposed amendment to the city code, defining exceptions to the requirement that residential property owners remove snow from adjacent sidewalks. […]
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Fire closes Hall Elementary School in Portland for at least this week
PORTLAND — Hall Elementary School will be closed through the end of the week due to an early morning fire Monday. School officials on Tuesday said they are looking into the possibility of moving students into an alternate learning center as early as Wednesday. They said they expected to have more information on the length of […]
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Cumberland council to consider 3 new no-parking zones
CUMBERLAND — The creation of three no-parking areas for road safety reasons will be among items the Town Council discusses Monday, Sept. 24. The council will hold a public hearing and discuss amending the town’s traffic ordinance to adopt no-parking areas on Orchard, Range and Whitney roads. A 100-foot-long space along Orchard Road, across the […]
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Falmouth trail work brings together users, Bowdoin students
FALMOUTH — A group of nearly 30 volunteers took to the trails this weekend to ensure residents have access to some of the highest quality trails in the area. Eight groups, led by Falmouth residents, spent three hours Saturday cleaning up and improving the trails in the Blackstrap Hill Preserve. The groups included 19 Bowdoin College […]
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SMCC-USM deal aims to bolster Maine’s tourism workforce
SOUTH PORTLAND — Officials from Southern Maine Community College and the University of Southern Maine hope a new agreement aligning the schools’ hospitality and tourism programs will help build the workforce in Maine’s largest industry. “This is critical to the tourism industry, which is Maine’s largest economic sector,” SMCC President Ronald Cantor told members of […]
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Police: Suspects stole IDs, drained bank accounts, read The Forecaster
LEWISTON — A man and a woman making their way down the Eastern Seaboard are draining bank accounts by stealing identities and bank information from motor vehicles, police said. Authorities in New Jersey traced the suspects to Maine after seeing the front page of The Forecaster weekly newspaper the male driver was reading while waiting […]
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Portland residents say another USM-area intersection needs attention
PORTLAND — Just a block away from a notoriously dangerous six-way intersection in the city’s Oakdale neighborhood, another intersection is threatening drivers and pedestrians, residents say. City Councilor David Marshall and city engineers met with them Sept. 12 to discuss ways of improving safety at the corner of Falmouth and Oakdale streets. The streets meet […]