Last week, the Scarborough girls indoor track team won the SMAA meet by exceeding expectations in events like the high jump. It was a once-a-year kind of performance. Or was it? Monday, at the state meet, the Red Storm did it again. On paper, Scarborough was predicted to finish second behind Thornton Academy. In reality, […]
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Buxton to hear Hannaford plans
Hannaford is proposing a shopping center that includes a supermarket in Buxton, which leaves a long time, family-owned grocery wondering about its future. Buxton planners were to see the Hannaford proposal for a shopping center on a 13-acre site at the intersection of Portland Road and Route 202 on Feb. 21. Hannaford will make a […]
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LD 1660 is not a good idea
For at least the third successive year, Governor Baldacci and several legislators are pushing to exempt much of the personal property tax that municipalities throughout the state rely on to support local services. Generally, personal property is classified as property with value but not considered real estate. Creating exemptions to eligible businesses means different things […]
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GMS spaghetti benefit A spaghetti dinner “cook-off” from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 3, at Gorham Middle School on Weeks Road will benefit the eighth grade trip to Washington D.C. this spring. Sauces for the dinner will be provided by Amato’s, Gorham House of Pizza and Sebago Brewing. Tickets are $5 or […]
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Idexx and the city working together
The Idexx TIF is a wonderful opportunity for Idexx and Westbrook to work together. Obviously, more good paying jobs in our city is a good thing. Increased tax revenues generated by Idexx’s development will help take the pressure off all of us residential taxpayers. This also presents a unique opportunity for our students. As we […]
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Standish historic district survives repeal effort
The debate in Standish rages on over how best to protect its historic district, or whether to protect it at all. In the latest twist to this preservation saga, Councilor Larry Simpson introduced an order at Tuesday’s Town Council meeting that, if passed, would repeal the Historic Preservation Ordinance enacted nearly four years ago in […]
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'Working Waterfront' bill a work in progress
The Legislature’s Taxation Committee has started work on a proposed law that would give commercial fishing businesses on the water a tax break – as mandated by voters last November – but prevent owners from using the provision as a tax dodge at the expense of their neighbors. Sen. Dennis Damon, D-Hancock, who sponsored the […]
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Windham's Johnson interning with United Nations
Lisa M. Johnson, a third year law student at Boston College, has been selected to work as an intern during the spring semester of 2006 at The Hague, Netherlands. Johnson, daughter of Ned and Michele Johnson of Outlet Cove in Windham, will be working for the Office of the Prosecutor for the United Nations International […]
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A town manager cannot wear two hats
Editor, It appears to me Standish Town Manager Mr. Billington has some very serious ethical and conflict-of-interest problems in wearing two hats, one as our town manager and the other as a real estate developer. To begin with, as the supervisor of the tax assessor, code officer, town planner and whomever else may have control […]
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Growing character
Gayle Carpenter’s fifth grade English classes at George E. Jack have been reading “Because of Winn-Dixie,” and have made a Tree of Goals/Achievements that is quite unique. In order for the students to be ready for the Maine Education Association test in reading for 5th grade, the novel was used to teach good character traits. […]