YARMOUTH — A building that now houses antique fire equipment will soon be transformed into a nonprofit art education center where children and adults will learn about painting, writing, pottery, digital media and nontraditional art. A lease for Firehouse Arts at Winslow Station was approved by the Town Council on Nov. 17. The former fire […]

PORTLAND — The first few months of school were not all that different for Reiche Elementary School students this year. “I don’t think the students even noticed,” Reiche teacher Kevin Brewster said. But there was a difference: Last year, Reiche became a teacher-led school. There are no administrators, no principal, no assistant principal in the […]

AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Education is proposing restrictions on when students will be able to sign up to attend one of several charter schools now being developed under a new state law. A science and math charter school called Baxter Academy has been proposed for the greater Portland area. As part of the […]

CHEBEAGUE ISLAND — Proponents and opponents of two experimental three-year leases of the waters off the coasts of Chebeague and Jewell islands are preparing to make their cases to the state Department of Marine Resources. Ocean Approved LLC, which maintains a kelp farm near Little Chebeague Island, want to use the additional locations to grow […]

PORTLAND — Property inspections for a mixed-used development in Bayside are taking longer than city officials had hoped. Now, the city is considering extending the deadline outlined in the contract by 60 to 90 days. But it’s unclear whether the city will enforce financial penalties for the delay. The City Council on May 23 agreed […]

As the population ages, children cope with caring for elderly parents SCARBOROUGH — Maine is the oldest state in the country, an issue not only for the elderly, but for the people who now find themselves in new roles: caregivers to their elderly parents. According to Ann O’Sullivan, family caregiver specialist for the Southern Maine […]

BRUNSWICK — Walk into Farley Field House at Bowdoin College in the middle of a weekday and you’ll spot an older man chatting with someone or, perhaps, filling the washing machines or the dryers in the trainer’s room. Go to a Bowdoin football or hockey game over the weekend and you’ll see the same tall […]

PORTLAND — School Department spending could increase more than $16 million over the next four years under a proposed new multi-year budget. The schools will be moving to the multi-year budget in 2013, abandoning the year-to-year budget model traditionally used by Maine school districts and municipalities. Multi-year budgeting is supposed to allow school administrators to […]

Yarmouth High School senior football captains Jacob French, left, Bryce Snyder, Dennis Erving and Carter Dorsett raise the Class C championship trophy after the Clippers’ 41-14 win over Bucksport in the state final Saturday, Nov. 19, at Fitzpatrick Stadium in Portland. Sports, Page 21.

CAPE ELIZABETH — The School Board is seeking two individuals to serve as school representatives to the Community Services Advisory Commission. These three-year terms will begin effective January 1, 2012. Meetings are held monthly on the first Wednesday or Thursday (except during July and August) at 7 p.m. in the Cape Elizabeth Community Center.