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Town operating expenses will increase $1.29 million this year, a 6.8% increase largely due to cost of living adjustment increases for staff and other investments in personnel. Residents will vote on the $49.9 million school budget June 11.
Victoria Mansion in Portland is tackling a shortage of tradespeople skilled in working on historic homes with workshops addressing the specifics of preservation.
Councilors Mark Segrist, Shirley Storey-King and Ronald Copp are stepping down and one at-large seat remains open, with three new candidates looking to be elected.
The GapTracks project analyzes the animal population in the unfinished section of the Eastern Trail between the Wainwright Recreation Complex in South Portland and Nonesuch River in Scarborough.
Ellen Turner, a caring, longtime special educator who died last fall, would be proud of her granddaughters' fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, they said.
'When they put their own stories on stage, they understand on a different level what it’s like to put your story out there and the responsibility that comes with that,' said Isaac Kestenbaum, director of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.
The Cumberland-North Yarmouth school board votes in favor of pursuing the $53.5 million project, which also includes funding for a turf field for the high school and four new classrooms at Mabel I. Wilson School.
The plan calls for a new firefighter, a part-time library position for a student and funding to cover costs associated with the November presidential election.
April 30 is the deadline for providing feedback on the plan that will guide the town policy decisions ranging from housing to transportation in the coming years.
Seven-year-old Carter Torina of Yarmouth has amassed a following for his trade nights, which are now available online, and he'll host a show at Hadlock Field this summer.
The suggestion comes as the Town Council hears an update on an $842,000 plan to address traffic and safety concerns at the Route 77 intersections with Scott Dyer and Shore roads.
The owners say they have no current plans to also build a homeless shelter at the site, but some Thornton Heights residents oppose any type of development because they say the Howard Johnson has been a bad neighbor and their neighborhood has suffered.
In wake of voters' defeat of the Drowne Road project, it's going to be tough to make a "meaningful dent in the affordable housing crisis," the town council chair says.