SOUTH PORTLAND — Residents could see a 3.66 percent increase in the property tax rate to cover a roughly $2.85 million general fund budget increase for fiscal year 2013. Those numbers are based on a municipal budget presented by City Manager Jim Gailey to city councilors last week, as well as a proposed 2.2 percent […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — A new Nursing Club at Southern Maine Community College will send a group of students and faculty members on a humanitarian voyage to Peru in August. In Peru, the group will provide medical care to the community at a clinic in the city of Cuzco. The trip is planned in collaboration with Hands Across […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — The School Board is poised to pass a 2.2 percent budget increase, which would result in a tax rate increase of about 50 cents. At a workshop meeting on Wednesday, six of the seven School Board members expressed support for the plan as presented by Superintendent of Schools Suzanne Godin. Sara Goldberg […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Less than a month from now, a team of South Portland students hope to storm the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Mo., to compete for the honor of “world champion.” The dome is the home of the St. Louis Rams, but these kids aren’t football players. They’re the Riot Crew, South […]

HARPSWELL — The town wants to tear it down, but Eric Field sees much more future than a pile of rubble in the small, Cape-style home near the entrance to Mitchell Field. The home and one other were built by the U.S. Navy when the fuel depot was active. They have been vacant since the […]

BRUNSWICK — Advanced Placement courses and freshman sports are among the latest additions to programs that could be cut in the fiscal 2013 school budget. Cutbacks at Brunswick High School were the subject of Wednesday night’s School Board budget workshop, the latest in a series of meetings that have highlighted the gravity of the town’s […]

SCARBOROUGH — Cuts are proposed for many town departments in the preliminary fiscal 2013 budget. But the organization that may take the biggest funding hit isn’t a town department at all; it’s the quasi-municipal Scarborough Economic Development Corp. SEDCO is an independent, taxpayer-funded nonprofit. Its funding could shrink nearly $58,800, or more than 25 percent, […]

Max Scardino, 17, protests corporate greed at the Legion Square traffic circle in South Portland’s Knightville neighborhood on March 19. Scardino said he started Occupy South Portland last fall because he doesn’t have a car and couldn’t reliably get to Portland’s Lincoln Park to join OccupyMaine. “A lot of people say protesting isn’t a good […]

FALMOUTH — Cape Elizabeth High School students placed a close second to Class A champion Falmouth High School in the finals of the Maine Drama Festival last weekend. The Class A competition was held at the Falmouth school, where the Capers lost 276-269, based on evaluations by three judges. The performance of portions of “Find […]

TOPSHAM — Next year’s School Administrative District 75 budget could require a 1 percent tax increase, despite a 3.3 percent spending cut that threatens to eliminate 26 to 28 jobs. The fiscal 2013 draft budget is $33.4 million, nearly $1 million less than the current year’s spending plan. The decline reflects: • A loss of […]