FREEPORT — In an election that brought out about 53 percent of the town’s registered voters, residents Tuesday elected two new faces to the Town Council in District 2 and District 3. The District 2 seat was won by newcomer Katherine Arno of Pleasant Hill Road. Unofficial results show she won the race against incumbent […]

SCARBOROUGH — Voters approved a $39 million bond to build a new intermediate school and elected a new town councilor along with all the incumbents in Tuesday’s elections. They approved the plan to replace the 50-year-old Wentworth Intermediate School by an unofficial vote of 4,792 to 2,784. A similar plan was rejected by voters in […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — There were no surprises in the unofficial results of Tuesday’s city elections. All the candidates ran uncontested races for City Council and School Board. Most were incumbents, and none are strangers to civic life in South Portland. Unofficial turnout was about 40 percent, or nearly 7,300 voters. In District 1, incumbent Councilor […]

NORTH YARMOUTH — Residents voted 860-456 Tuesday for a referendum question that establishes a Charter Commission. The commission will likely be the first to review the Town Charter since the document was established in 1982, Selectman Rob Wood said last month. He noted that since then, the size of North Yarmouth has doubled. “We still […]

FALMOUTH — The Cumberland County district attorney will not pursue a complaint filed against a Falmouth School Board member. Frequent town government critic Michael Doyle filed an assault charge against the board member, Andrew Kinley, in August. Doyle claimed Kinley touched him against Doyle’s will during a School Board retreat Doyle was attending as a […]

FREEPORT — A narrowly divided Planning Board declined to make a recommendation to the Town Council in support of an indoor soccer arena proposed near the town-owned Hunter Road fields. While board members on Nov. 2 said they support the proposal by Seacoast United Maine to build a nearly 50,000-square-foot indoor sports arena near the […]

FREEPORT — Movie-goers won’t necessarily have to travel to Brunswick or Portland starting next week, when the Nordica Theatre is scheduled to open at midnight on Thursday, Nov. 17, at Freeport Village Station. The theater, operated by Massachusetts-based Belmont Capital, is at the corner of Mill and Depot Streets. It has six screens, stadium seating […]

FREEPORT — The public is invited to a Nov. 16 presentation and discussion at the Freeport Community Center about the Mallet House deep energy retrofit. Presenters will include Peter Troast, founder of Energy Circle; Peter Warren of Warren Construction Group; DeWitt Kimball, owner of Complete Home Evaluation Service, and Joshua Wojcik of Energy Auditing. They […]

YARMOUTH — The Town Council will hold a public hearing on Thursday, Nov. 17, to discuss consideration of sewer fees. The council discussed the user fees in October, and decided to hear from the public before determining to continue or end the discussion. About 2,500 households are connected to the public system and pay for […]

PORTLAND — The federal Transportation Security Administration will continue to base its statewide operations at the Portland International Jetport for the next five years. The City Council approved the lease Monday without discussion. The council also got a first look at a proposal to create a property tax stabilization fund. The TSA lease will generate […]