SOUTH PORTLAND — City councilors on Monday sparred over whether the city should allow the South Portland Farmers Market to erect a large sign near the intersection of Waterman Drive and Broadway. The market, championed on the council by Councilor Rosemarie De Angelis, wants a 4-by-8 sign, similar to the one in front of Scarborough’s […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — Shifting political sands that rippled through Maine this week after the announcement by U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, that she will not seek a fourth term have changed the plans of state Sen. Cynthia Dill, D-Cape Elizabeth. On Tuesday morning, Dill was one of four Democrats seeking her party’s nomination to unseat Snowe […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — The School Department has to cut $4 million from the high school renovation project.  The department opened bids for the project on Feb. 23, but the lowest viable bidder – PC Construction, of South Burlington, Vt. – came in with a base bid of $43.2 million. The city is limited to $39.2 […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — A reporter for a weekly newspaper was fired last week after competing newspapers discovered he had plagiarized their work. Editors from The Forecaster and the Current, weeklies that also cover the city, contacted the South Portland-Cape Elizabeth Sentry after discovering text from their stories published Feb. 17 also appeared in articles written […]

A Feb. 23 story, “Bond amount not set for new Yarmouth Public Works facility,” should have listed the plan presenters as Sebago Technics engineer Will Conway and architects Scott Teas and Ryan Senatore of TFH Architects.

SCARBOROUGH — A mail distribution center here will be last remaining postal hub in the state after it absorbs the workload, and many of the workers, now at a facility in Hampden. The consolidation plan was announced Feb. 23 by the U.S. Postal Service, which estimates it will save $7.5 million annually by combining the […]

BRUNSWICK — Parkview Adventist Medical Center named Randee R. Reynolds interim president, replacing Ted Lewis, whose last day was Monday. “There have been multiple clinical improvements during Ted’s tenure at Parkview over the last 10 years,” said Board Chairman Mike Ortel, who announced the news Tuesday. “The LifeFlight of Maine helicopter, many new primary care […]

PORTLAND — The district attorney for Cumberland County did nothing wrong when she intervened in a child custody battle on Jan. 27, according a federal court filing. District Attorney Stephanie Anderson filed a motion Wednesday in U.S. District Court to dismiss a lawsuit filed last month by Igor Malenko, a South Portland man who claims […]

BATH — The U.S. Navy awarded Bath Iron Works a nearly $663 million contract to build the next in a line of DDG-51 destroyers. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a member of the Senate’s Armed Services Committee and Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, announced the news Tuesday. BIW was awarded the ship, known as DDG-116, last year […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — Property owners could see a 50-cent increase in tax rates if a preliminary fiscal year 2013 school budget remains unchanged. The budget presented to School Board members Tuesday night seeks a 2.9 percent spending increase of more than $611,000 to $21.73 million. Salary increases pegged at 2 percent for unionized employees account […]