SOUTH PORTLAND — Legislative elections in Cape Elizabeth, Scarborough and South Portland will be notable this year for the departures of incumbents and rematches from past campaigns. Two state Senate incumbents will not return to office after Democratic and Republican candidates were required to submit nominating petitions to the Maine secretary of state last week […]

TOPSHAM — The town is seeking members for a committee that will study much of Route 196 and draft a corridor plan for the road. The Route 196 Corridor Study Committee, which the Board of Selectmen voted recently to create, could begin its work next month. The corridor plan – recommended in the town’s 2005 […]

FALMOUTH — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the town by the former code enforcement officer, who alleged he was wrongfully fired.  In a lawsuit filed Sept. 6, 2011, longtime Code Enforcement Officer Albert Farris Jr. of Brunswick claimed he was deprived of his right to be heard by an impartial tribunal […]

FALMOUTH — Superintendent of Schools Barbara Powers said her $29.3 million budget proposal is not the “spending bonanza” the 11.93 percent increase implies. Powers said the first debt payment on the new elementary school accounts for 5.15 percent of the increase proposed under the budget presented to the School Board last week. The first principal payment […]

YARMOUTH — Town councilors, who have no say in education spending, had few comments as they scheduled a public hearing on the fiscal year 2013 school budget. By a 4-0 vote Tuesday, with Councilors Carlton Winslow, Erv Bickford and Tim Sanders absent, councilors set an April 19 date for the public hearing on a proposed […]

Falmouth High School freshman Andy Clement makes final adjustments to his team’s wind turbine before its performance is measured March 16 at Davan Pool in Westbrook, where Falmouth students tested their wind power projects. They were looking for successful designs that would advance to the DeepCwind Consortium’s Windstorm Challenge. The challenge brings students together with […]

YARMOUTH — Rivers are pretty, democracy sometimes is not. That was the lesson imparted on two international visitors, in town Tuesday to learn more about the Bridge Street and East Elm Street dams and ongoing discussions about removing or preserving them. “It has taken us two years, and it may take us another two years,” […]

CUMBERLAND — Next year’s School Administrative District 51 spending plan would increase 5.9 percent under the superintendent’s proposed budget. The $28.9 million budget approved by voters in the Cumberland-North Yarmouth district last year would increase to nearly $30.6 million, a $1.7 million climb. The fiscal 2012 budget was a nearly 3 percent increase over the […]

NORTH YARMOUTH — Next year’s municipal budget, still being reviewed by the Board of Selectmen and Budget Committee, could increase 5.2 percent. The Board of Selectmen’s preliminary spending plan for fiscal 2013 is $2.75 million, up about $135,000 from the current $2.6 million budget approved at Town Meeting last June. It includes about $500,000 the […]

CUMBERLAND — Kim Brandt doesn’t see being named Maine’s Middle Level Principal of the Year as a nod to her as much as an honor for her school. “It’s great for the school, because everybody works so hard,” said the Greely Middle School principal. “The kids are working so hard … it just feels like […]