YARMOUTH — Experience and service are the key words used by the candidates for School Committee. Four candidates – Susan Garrett, Craig Wolff, Tim Wheaton, and David Ray – are seeking three School Committee seats, for three years. It is the only contested local election on June 12. Wolff is a federal prosecutor in Portland, Ray […]

Approximately 200 people gathered at the First Parish Church in Yarmouth on Saturday, May 19, for a memorial to Frank Knight, the town’s former tree warden. Knight died last week at 103 and was buried in a casket made of wood from “Herbie,” the historic American elm that Knight nurtured for many years.

NORTH YARMOUTH — The town’s public safety assistant will soon be wearing the fire chief hat, too. Ricky Plummer of Biddeford, who was hired late last year in his current position, has held fire chief positions in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Florida. The Board of Selectmen voted last week to hire Plummer as part-time […]

CHEBEAGUE ISLAND — The town is seeking replacements for its clerk and deputy clerk, who left at the same time as the annual influx of summer residents approaches. The town is accepting applications through Friday, May 25, for a municipal clerk/tax collector, a 40-hour-per-week position, and for a deputy clerk/office assistant, who would work an […]

FALMOUTH — Construction of the new Walmart expansion has moved the Falmouth farmers market from the Walmart parking lot to Twombly Park on Hat Trick Drive. Opening day of the market is Wednesday, May 23. It will continue each Wednesday from noon-4 p.m. throughout the summer.

FREEPORT — After a bit of paring and whittling, councilors approved a nearly  $8.7 million town budget and set the municipal spending course for next fiscal year. The budget will increase from about $8.5 million, with about $119,000 of the increase requiring property tax revenues. Property owners will pay nearly $4.8 million to fund municipal […]

CUMBERLAND — The names of more than 700 military veterans have been engraved on a memorial at Moss Side Cemetery, just in time for Memorial Day. The 4-by-8-foot centerpiece of the three-stone monument was laid in 2010, with an inscription that recognizes “all Cumberland residents who have served our country in times of war and […]

FALMOUTH — The four candidates for two seats on the Town Council come from diverse professional backgrounds and have varied opinions on several issues facing the town. The candidates include a businessman, two attorneys and a non-attorney advocate. Election Day is June 12. The candidates will discuss the issues in a debate on June 6 at […]

PORTLAND — The Police Department disclosed an array of encouraging downward trends in its annual crime report Monday. Police Chief Michael Sauschuck called 2011 a year of transition, in a press release accompanying the report. “We had changes in leadership, implemented several successful new initiatives and as a result of effective and proactive police work […]

PORTLAND — The search for the next school superintendent is running a week behind schedule due to the School Board’s desire to interview more finalists than originally anticipated, search committee Chairwoman Sarah Thompson said. The committee had at first planned to interview two candidates for the job, but later decided to add a third, she […]