CAPE ELIZABETH — From his office in Pond Cove Elementary School, Tom Eismeier has seen almost a generation of students arrive, grow and thrive. From a basement in Town Hall, Gary Lanoie has reached the clouds. Eismeier, who became principal at Pond Cove Elementary School 17 years ago, will retire Sept. 30. His contract was extended […]

BATH — Police charged a 12-year-old Phippsburg student with Class D terrorizing after a bomb scare at Bath Middle School on Monday. The boy allegedly wrote a “vague” bomb threat with a highlighter on a boys’ bathroom stall, according to Lt. Stan Cielinski. The message was reported to police at 9:58 a.m., and the boy […]

SCARBOROUGH — Residents on Tuesday will vote on a proposed $37.4 million “correction year” education budget.  Polls open at 7 a.m. May 15 in Council Chambers at the Scarborough Municipal Building. Absentee ballots are available, and must be returned by 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 15. The fiscal 2013 budget represents an approximate $1.7 million increase […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — City councilors on Monday approved the School Board’s $39.9 million operating budget for the next school year and sent the budget to a May 15 referendum.  While the City Council passed the budget, it didn’t do so without dissent. The council voted 5-2, with Councilors Al Livingston and Jerry Jalbert dissenting. “Board […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Shovels hit the ground Monday to mark the beginning of a $41.5 million construction and renovation project at South Portland High School.  “This is a pretty big moment for Riot pride,” School Board Chairman Tappan Fitzgerald said.  Fittzgerald, Mayor Patti Smith and two high school students, Gabriella Ferrell and Morrigan Turner, addressed […]

BRUNSWICK — State Rep. Alex Cornell du Houx is not suffering from any serious psychological symptoms or syndromes, according to a statement by a psychologist who met with the lawmaker a dozen times over a recent three-month period. Margo Thurston, a state-licensed psychologist who counseled Cornell du Houx, paints a much different portrait of him […]

BRUNSWICK — About 120 U.S. Navy families will be coming to the community as part of a precommissioning crew at Bath Iron Works, Town Councilor David Watson announced Monday. “Starting this time next year, there’ll be something in the area of a seven-year program (during) which BIW will be constructing new ships, new destroyers,” Watson […]

BRUNSWICK — On May 3, developer George Schott closed on a deal with the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority to purchase 240 acres of land beneath hundreds of houses that he already owned on what is being called McKeen Street Landing, part of the former Brunswick Naval Air Station. On May 4, Schott put five of […]

BRUNSWICK — In an intriguing example of the sometimes-tenuous relationship between people and reality, the Town Council on Monday unanimously voted to do away with a 105-year-old street that existed only in the imagination of a long-dead war hero. “It’s a street that doesn’t exist,” Town Manager Gary Brown told the council. Civil War veteran […]

TOPSHAM — Susan Chadima’s life as a veterinarian includes her practice on quiet Foreside Road and on war-torn streets in Afghanistan. Chadima, who founded the Androscoggin Animal Hospital in 1985, will talk about her experiences at the Topsham Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 15. With her will be Pen Farthing, a former United […]