TOPSHAM — A $33.4 million spending plan for School Administrative District 75 received final approval Tuesday at the polls. The fiscal 2013 budget passed, 1,981 to 733, and carried all four towns in the SAD. Topsham voted 909-307; Harpswell, 615-279; Bowdoin, 184-67, and Bowdoinham 273-80. The budget – which is down $817,000, or 2.4 percent, from this […]

TOPSHAM — A ban on the sale and use of consumer fireworks will go into effect immediately as a result of a referendum vote Tuesday, Town Manager Cornell Knight said Wednesday. Knight said voters were asked whether they would allow the sale or use of fireworks under state regulation, under local regulation, or not at […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — Democratic state Sen. Cynthia Dill of Cape Elizabeth and Secretary of State Charles Summers Jr., R-Scarborough, on Tuesday won their parties’ nominations for the U.S. Senate. By late Tuesday, national and state media outlets had called the race for Dill and Summers, with roughly 88 percent of precincts reporting.  The two partisans […]

SCARBOROUGH — Political newcomer James Boyle trounced incumbent Rep. Timothy Driscoll, D-Westbrook, for the Democratic Party nomination for Maine Senate District 6.  The final unofficial result after Tuesday’s primary election had Boyle winning 1,106 to 700. Senate District 6 includes Gorham and parts of Scarborough and Westbrook. Boyle, who runs an environmental and land use […]

FREEPORT — Town Council Vice Chairwoman Sara Gideon is the Democratic candidate to replace state Rep. David Webster in House District 106 after defeating two challengers in the party primary Tuesday. “It feels great because I really feel honored to have the Democrats in Freeport let me represent them,” Gideon said. She won 51 percent […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — City Councilor Tom Coward on Tuesday won the Democratic Party’s nomination for Cumberland County commissioner in District 4. Coward defeated Boyd Marley, a former state representative from South Portland, by just 35 votes, 1,386 to 1,351. District 4 includes Cape Elizabeth, Westbrook, South Portland and part of Portland. No other candidates were on […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — Former School Board member Rebecca Millett has decisively defeated South Portland Rep. Bryan Kaenrath for the Democratic nomination for Maine Senate District 7. With South Portland and Ward 3 of Scarborough reporting, Millett leads Kanraeth by 1,590 to 926. Millett, will face Republican and South Portland businessman Gary Crosby in the Nov. […]

YARMOUTH — A transformation of the Town Council and School Committee was completed Tuesday with four newcomers elected to town offices. Voter turnout was light in the election, which included the defeat of incumbent School Committee member Craig Wolff, who was seeking his second, three-year term. Susan Garrett, 51, who had never run for elected […]

PORTLAND — The November ballot for the state House of Representatives is set after Tuesday’s voting settled three contested Democratic primaries. Democrat Erik Jorgensen won his party’s nomination in District 115. The Democratic nominee in District 117 is Richard Farnsworth, while Matthew Moonen took District 118. There were no contested Republican or Green Independent primaries […]

FALMOUTH — Sean Mahoney and Karen Farber won the four-way race Tuesday for two seats on the Town Council. Voters also chose two School Board representatives in an uncontested election, and approved the fiscal 2013 school budget. Mahoney and Farber will take seats vacated by Councilors Will Armitage and Fred Chase. Mahoney received the most votes, […]