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Sometimes you just crave breakfast food.
Despite it being afternoon as I finalize this newsletter, I'm going to go make myself some scrambled eggs and toast. So, I'll leave you to it: read on for all of this week's news in your communities.
In this week's newsletter: A South Portland school board member resigns; Scarborough's proposed municipal and school budget; an Earth Day Resource Fair and more.
(P.S. We've launched a brand new ePaper product for our Cape-SoPo-Scarborough Now readers! Enjoy your local news in a digital newspaper format. Find it at the bottom of today's newsletter).
- Drew Johnson |
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South Portland is going bigger than ever before in celebrating Earth Day this year. A new Earth Day Resource Fair will be held at Mill Creek Park on Saturday, April 26. Over 40 organizations, businesses and groups are expected to provide education and activities to the event. |
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Geese soak up the sun at Mill Creek Park. Derek Davis / Portland Press Herald |
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South Portland School Board member Jennifer Ryan announced her resignation last week. Ryan said “tensions are high” on a number of issues the board has been tackling recently, including the next budget, but her priority right now is family and she is looking forward to serving the community in other ways. |
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Scarborough’s latest proposed municipal and school budget comes with an estimated 3.5% tax increase. Much of the proposed municipal budget is focused on maintaining services, while the school budget is driven by an increasing need for special education services in the district. |
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A Scarborough family is leasing Bayley’s Ice Cream on Pine Point Road, which they plan to relaunch as The Maine Scoop Co. later this spring. Ben Sholl, one of the new operators, said the shop will officially open Thursday, May 15. Sholl and his family currently own Mainely Custard in Freeport, which they bought last year. |
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Emergency crews responded to LongHorn Steakhouse near the Maine Mall on Friday after part of the restaurant’s ceiling collapsed during dinner service, officials said. Employees had noticed ceiling tiles beginning to fall and moved patrons out of the way shortly before the ceiling came down, the city's fire and police departments said. Bystanders also helped some patrons out from under the debris, they said. |
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Marina Bassett, a South Portland High student, was named the Varsity Maine Girls Hockey Player of the Year. Bassett will continue her ice hockey career at Rivier University in New Hampshire. Daryn Slover / Portland Press Herald |
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK |
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"Being a parent in the school district ... I feel confident in the people that surround him, the education that he’s getting and the experience he’s having in South Portland schools." |
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— Jennifer Ryan on her son and her confidence in the district in the wake of her resignation from the South Portland school board |
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May 15, 1938: A South Portland High School fielder applies a tag as a Cheverus runner slides. |
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Drew Johnson is a community news reporter for South Portland, Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough, and previously reported for the Leader and Sentry. Though he is from Massachusetts, Drew grew up going to his family’s lake house in Denmark, Maine, learning to snow ski at Shawnee Peak and water ski on Moose Pond. While he started as a “Vacationlander,” Drew has adopted “the way life should be” motto and moved to Portland in September of 2021. Contact him at djohnson@metln.org. |
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