CAPE ELIZABETH — Town councilors will vote Monday on whether to place a $6 million bond referendum on the November ballot for renovation and reconstruction of Thomas Memorial Library. If a bond is approved, work could begin in 2014 on the project, which is expected to cost a total of $7.5 million. Councilors will also […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Work began this week on the first phase of the revitalization of Mill Creek Park.  On Tuesday, construction crews razed the park’s Rose Garden and started a new path system around the pond, which was drained. Mill Stone Plaza, near Ocean Street, was cleared of trees and shrubs for renovation and expansion. […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — The city will save about $7.5 million on the total cost of high school renovations thanks to favorable borrowing conditions. “This is a substantial savings,” Finance Director Greg L’Heureux told the City Council Monday. “It’s significant.” The city issued $30 million in bonds recently in the initial phase of financing for the $41.5 […]

SCARBOROUGH — Town councilors on Wednesday enacted a slate of zoning amendments aimed at attracting businesses to Haigis Parkway, which the town still hopes will be a center of high-value development. Councilors also put to rest questions about the process leading to the defeat of Councilor Richard Sullivan’s effort to kill the town’s organic pest management policy […]

BATH — The City Council unanimously approved next year’s $14.8 million city budget Wednesday evening. The panel also voted 5-4 to again extend a moratorium on the mass installation of wireless “smart” electric meters. The fiscal 2013 spending plan is an increase of more than $692,000 over the current year. The budget includes $9.3 million […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — Partisans in South Portland, Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth will vote Tuesday, June 12, in primaries for both chambers of Congress and the Statehouse, county commissioner and county register of probate.  Most party races are uncontested, so candidates for the November general election are all but decided. Still, a handful of contests won’t […]

HARPSWELL — Goodall Landscaping will be invited to bid on a winter roads contract in Harpswell, the Board of Selectmen decided, but owner Ben Goodall has to convince the board he can do a better job than he did last winter. “I think it’s reasonable to allow them to bid,” Selectman Jim Henderson said in […]

BRUNSWICK — The Town Council is still hoping to find a buyer for the old Times Record building on Industry Road, even as it moves forward with a plan to demolish the structure. The building has been on the market for the past two years. Town Manager Gary Brown said during a council meeting on […]

BRUNSWICK — The Town Council has received dozens of letters from supporters of the Eveningstar Cinema, all asking the town to support the independent movie theater’s efforts to build a new location at the Brunswick Station. It’s the kind of project that captures the imagination. In fact, more people have written to support the single-screen […]

BATH — A $26 million fiscal 2013 budget for Regional School Unit 1 goes to a final vote June 12, after receiving initial public approval Tuesday. A budget meeting at Bath Middle School drew more than 140 voters from the five RSU 1 communities – Bath, Arrowsic, Phippsburg, West Bath and Woolwich. If approved on […]