SOUTH PORTLAND — City and Scarborough residents can vote on their respective fiscal year 2014 school budgets from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 11. The South Portland referendum will be held at the Community Center, 21 Nelson Road. In Scarborough, the referendum – a second attempt at validating a school budget – will […]
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Tax hike, wharf repairs await Chebeague Island Town Meeting
CHEBEAGUE ISLAND — Voters will decide on a proposed budget of $2.9 million Saturday at Town Meeting, including whether to set aside an additional $50,000 for repairs to Stone Wharf. The proposed fiscal 2014 budget represents a 0.5 percent increase over this year’s spending, but will have a higher tax impact, if approved, due to […]
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Portland City Council OKs fee on car-parking services
PORTLAND — For the first time, valet services using on-street city parking will have to pay fees for the privilege, the City Council decided unanimously Monday. Under an ordinance approved 8-0, valet services will be allowed between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. to reserve two on-street spaces in a single location, where customers can drop […]
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Falmouth Follies committee seeks volunteers
FALMOUTH — A community group is looking for volunteers to join a committee to help organize the annual winter event known as “Falmouth Follies.” The event’s purpose is to encourage shopping and dining in Falmouth. While the two-day event takes place on Dec. 13 and 14, the committee is now seeking more members to help […]
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Councilor: Portland Fire Department staffing 'out of whack'
PORTLAND — In less than a month, the Fire Department is due to present an action plan in response to an external audit earlier this year of its staffing and operations. No one will be reading the plan with greater interest than City Councilor Ed Suslovic. Suslovic, the District 3 councilor who chairs the council’s […]
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Yarmouth turf field replacement to start next week
YARMOUTH — Construction of a new artificial turf field at Yarmouth High School, replacing one installed in 2001, is due to start June 10. The project is funded by a $1.5 million bond, which voters approved last November. The field, used by high school sports teams and the community, “reached the end of its useful […]
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North Yarmouth to vote on budget, town center plan
NORTH YARMOUTH — Voters will decide on a $2.4 million municipal budget for fiscal 2014 at Town Meeting on Saturday, June 15. Built into that spending plan is $155,000 for the first phase of a proposed economic development plan. While next year’s municipal budget could drop 9.5 percent, reduced revenues could cause town taxes to […]
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Portland to begin talks for Congress Square Plaza sale
PORTLAND — At a much-anticipated meeting May 29, the City Council’s Housing and Community Development Committee voted 3-1 to open negotiations for selling much of Congress Square Plaza to owners of the neighboring Eastland Park Hotel. Councilor Kevin Donoghue cast the dissenting vote. The hotel owners, RockBridge Capital LLC and New Castle Hotels & Resorts, […]
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Special day for Special Olympics in Yarmouth
Eighth-grade students at Frank H. Harrison Middle School in Yarmouth turn a parachute to the delight of two Special Olympians on May 31 during the first Young Athletes Festival conducted by Special Olympics Maine for children ages 2 1/2 to 8 who have intellectual disabilities or autism. Yarmouth eighth-grader Molly Wilson plays catcher for a […]
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Bath shipyard gets contracts for 4 destroyers, option for 5th
BATH — The Department of Defense on Monday awarded Bath Iron Works contracts worth $2.84 billion to build four DDG 51 destroyers in the next five years. An option for a fifth destroyer, if exercised, would bring the total to more than $3.53 billion. Through a competitive bidding process, BIW competitor Ingalls Shipbuilding in Gulfport, […]