BRUNSWICK — With an option signed to buy the Town Hall and Recreation Center properties, Wiscasset-based Coastal Enterprises can now begin to determine if Brunswick will be the nonprofit’s new home. CEI signed a purchase offer with Brunswick Development Corp. last week, after the town agreed to transfer the two Federal Street properties to the […]
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Engine 1 Art Show returns Sunday in Cape Elizabeth
CAPE ELIZABETH — The 46th annual Cape Elizabeth Engine One Company Labor Day Art Show will be held from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 1, in Fort Williams Park on Shore Road. Every year, the park hosts more than 100 artists – from oil painters to crafters – from all over New England. The event […]
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Scarborough teens, visitors summonsed at 2 parties
SCARBOROUGH — Two parties kept police busy writing summonses for underage drinking on Friday, Aug. 23, although no arrests were made. In the first incident, Police Department Sgt. Rick Rouse said an inadvertent 911 call, possibly by a party goer, brought police to a section of open land off Broadturn and Holmes roads at around […]
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Tax deal for proposed Bath shipyard project arouses opposition
BATH — Bath Iron Works is seeking site plan and contract rezoning approvals from the city, and a tax increment financing agreement, to expand and make other improvements. A petition opposing another TIF agreement with BIW attracted nearly 370 signatures at the state Senate District 19 polls Tuesday. BIW wants to build a more than […]
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Topsham to vote on TIFs, redevelopment at special Town Meeting
TOPSHAM — Residents will vote on a neighborhood revitalization plan and two proposed tax increment financing proposals at a Sept. 25 special Town Meeting. A public hearing on the Town Meeting warrant will be held Thursday, Sept. 5, as part of the next Board of Selectmen meeting. While the two TIFs earned unanimous support from […]
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Grant feeds Falmouth High School appetite for science
FALMOUTH — Students at Falmouth High School could be working in a high-tech lab in the near future after the school received $20,000 in seed money for a more robust Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics program. The start-up funding, provided by the Perloff Foundation through the Maine Community Foundation, is a third of the School […]
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Yarmouth schools add security, hope to maintain balance
YARMOUTH — When students return to school on Tuesday, Sept. 3, there’s a good chance they won’t notice more than $134,000 in security enhancements at the town’s four public schools. That’s partly the point. “The schools have done a really nice job of increasing the safety, but not in a way that’s scary,” Yarmouth Elementary […]
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Portland schools to lease former Falmouth school building
FALMOUTH — The Portland School Department has signed a 10-month, $75,000 lease for the former Sampson D. Plummer Elementary school, to house its West Day Treatment Program. The West program provides education to about 40 children who have emotional disabilities and mental health diagnoses. It previously operated at the West School, and more recently at […]
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Freeport High School towns will confront old questions in new school year
FREEPORT — Overcrowding at Freeport High School won’t be any worse this year than it was last, but that doesn’t mean the troubles are over for the aging and cramped facility. That’s the assessment of Regional School Unit 5 Superintendent Shannon Welsh, who said the estimated enrollment at Freeport High School is relatively flat, at […]
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Maine state universities pay agents to recruit international students
ORONO — This September, among the new students attending the University of Maine’s orientation will be two students from China and one each from India, Vietnam and Bangladesh. That the students are from abroad is not new; the University of Maine had 341 degree-seeking, international students last year. But the way they got here is […]