Members of the 1921 Scarborough High School Track team included, front row from left, Ross Sherwood, Captain Emmons, Thomas Seavey and Clarence Peterson; middle, Aurthur Pillsbury, Clayton Sargent, Fred Skillings and principal and coach Elwood G. Bessy; back, Clark Libby and Edgar Milliken. Bessy was a coach, teacher and principal in Scarborough for 33 years […]
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Posted inSouthern Forecaster
Scarborough officials revising $95M budget
The Scarborough Town Council is giving town and school officials until May to come up with leaner numbers.
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Posted inSouthern Forecaster
Local schools stay shuttered until June, virtual learning continues
As the end of the school year approaches, administrators in South Portland, Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth have all decided to keep students and staff on a virtual schedule for the remainder of the school year, and are now turning to the difficult challenge of end-of-year assessments.
Posted inSouthern Forecaster
It’s Been an Education: Making distance learning the norm in Scarborough, S. Portland
The two school districts have turned to all manner of technology to keep teaching area students, despite the isolation of the coronavirus pandemic.
Posted inSouthern Forecaster
In South Portland, school’s out, but soup’s on
Food service workers in local school districts are helping to deliver free school lunches to needy children in the area, even though schools remain closed due to the coronavirus.
Posted inForecaster Opinion
Letter: Scarborough teachers not being respected, heard
I attended the rally for Scarborough teachers during the Jan. 2 School Board meeting and it was clear that Scarborough teachers felt dishonored and ignored. One of the factors contributing to these feelings was the School Board’s insistence that the public could not express its views at the public meeting, but nothing in the law […]
Posted inThe Forecaster
Scarborough holds public forum on school consolidation
SCARBOROUGH — The School Board will hold a public forum at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 19, at Town Hall to get public feedback on a recommendation from the Building Steering Committee that the town build a new consolidated primary school.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Decolonize Thanksgiving by making amends to the Wabanaki
It’s not enough to acknowledge past harms – non-Natives should work to create restorative change.
Posted inScarborough Leader, Southern Forecaster, Southern Maine Weeklies, The Forecaster
Scarborough school administrator retires after 4 decades
Middle school Principal Diane Nadeau has been chosen to take over for outgoing assistant superintendent Jo Anne Sizemore