BRUNSWICK — The School Board reconvened Wednesday on plans to upgrade two schools, nearly three months after architects presented a $38 million estimate for major renovations. But no further decisions are likely to be made for Coffin Elementary School and Brunswick Junior High School until the board meets again in June. Lyndon Keck of PDT […]
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Waste-to-energy business coming to Brunswick Landing
BRUNSWICK — By the end of the year, the town will become home to a facility that uses bacteria to convert waste into electricity. Village Green Ventures, a New York-based technology company, received unanimous approval from the Planning Board Tuesday night for a plan to build an “anaerobic digester” at Brunswick Landing. The company is […]
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Public urges councilors to back Scarborough school budget
SCARBOROUGH — A revised fiscal year 2014 school budget of no more than $38.8 million faces a June 5 council vote and June 11 public referendum after it was forwarded through a first reading at a special Town Council meeting Wednesday night. The revised budget, which cuts $54,000 from the budget rejected by an 898-643 […]
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Former Brunswick High School principal to be paid through June
BRUNSWICK — A few new details have emerged about last week’s abrupt resignation of high school Principal Art Abelmann, including Abelmann’s handwritten resignation letter and when his two-year contract will officially end. Meanwhile, a former School Board member who participated in Abelmann’s interview process last May said the principal was forthright at that time about his […]
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Trout Brook fish get helping hand from South Portland 4th-graders
SOUTH PORTLAND — From small fry, there may be a bigger fish story in the six-acre Trout Brook Preserve. Last week, fourth-graders from Waldo T. Skillin and Helena H. Dyer elementary schools released about 115 trout into a bend at Trout Brook as it courses between Providence and Boothby avenues. It was the second release […]
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Memorial Day in South Portland, Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough
South Portland resident Kenneth Marston, who served in the U.S. Air Force from 1964 to 1968, reads names of deceased members of the military at a Memorial Day ceremony at the Mill Creek Park Service Monument in South Portland. The ceremony followed the city’s annual parade on Broadway. Cape Elizabeth Lions Club member Paul Gentilini […]
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District meeting OKs SAD 75 budget
TOPSHAM — The School Administrative District 75 budget for fiscal 2014 passed its first public vote last week. Superintendent of Schools Brad Smith on Wednesday said all of the school budget articles were approved as presented at the SAD 75 district budget meeting on May 23. About 50 residents from the district’s four communities attended. The […]
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Cumberland County fires former detective who is suing sheriff
SOUTH PORTLAND — Gerard Brady, who is suing Cumberland County, Sheriff Kevin Joyce and Chief Deputy Naldo Gagnon, was fired from his job as a sheriff’s deputy May 21 by Cumberland County Manager Peter Crichton. Jonathan Goodman, Brady’s lawyer, said Crichton cited the union collective bargaining agreement and county policy by dismissing Brady after he […]
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Brunswick faces nearly 7% tax hike with $57.3M budget
BRUNSWICK — Property owners can expect to see a 6.6 percent tax hike next fiscal year if a proposed $35 million school budget is approved by a voter referendum on June 11. The spending plan is part of a $57.3 million combined town, school and county budget that was adopted by the Town Council in […]
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Greater Bath voters give initial OK to RSU 1 budget
BATH — More than 125 registered voters took about 90 minutes Tuesday to approve the Regional School Unit 1 budget for fiscal 2014. The $27.7 million spending plan – which now goes to a June 4 budget validation referendum at polling places in the five RSU 1 communities – reflects a nearly 6.7 percent increase over the […]