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• Maine Dems challenge Hoffman - 7/4/2008

  OGUNQUIT, Maine — The Maine Democratic Party has continued its challenge of town resident Herb Hoffman's independent candidacy for U.S. Senate. The party on Monday appealed Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap's validation of Hoffman's...

• Five teachers bidding farewell to SAD 35 - 7/4/2008

  SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — Five educators in School Administrative District 35 turned in their chalk last month, retiring after many years of teaching in the system.

  
• No decision from Ogunquit selectmen on skateboard park - 7/3/2008

  OGUNQUIT — A funny thing happened at the conclusion of Tuesday's public hearing on whether a proposed skateboard park should be built on the grounds of the former Ogunquit Village School.

  
• Mainers warned about childhood obesity - 7/3/2008

  PORTLAND, Maine — Mainers got a warning from the nation's acting surgeon general about the dangers of childhood obesity.

• Kennebunk hopes to find new use for Park Street School building - 7/3/2008

  KENNEBUNK — Wanted: creative solutions for 75-year-old school building. Nonprofits encouraged to apply.

• Wells' Bartlett pleads not guilty in I-95 accident that claimed two lives - 7/3/2008

  ALFRED — Donna Bartlett, 38, of Wells, on June 27 pleaded not guilty to each of 15 counts against her at an arraignment in York County Superior Court.

• Water district postpones vote on Nestle deal - 7/3/2008

  KENNEBUNK — About 75 activists from the area and around the state, mingled with news media and rallied on the lawn of the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Wells Water district offices during the afternoon of June 25. The relatively calm rally was...

  
• Plovers at all-time low - 7/3/2008

  AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is urging beachgoers and their pets to stay away from the nests of piping plovers at beaches in southern Maine.

  
• Hoffman's candidacy headed to Superior Court - 7/3/2008

  OGUNQUIT — The Maine Democratic Party has continued its challenge of Ogunquit resident Herb Hoffman's independent candidacy for U.S. Senate. The party Monday appealed Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap's validation of Hoffman's petitions...

• An Ambassador of Hope in Wells - 7/3/2008

  WELLS — Sophia Batchelder's 13-month life was a powerful story of a family's love, hope, and determination that their seriously ill daughter would live a comfortable life.

  
• Hallett development plan sent back to Ogunquit Planning Board - 7/3/2008

  OGUNQUIT — The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday told Ogunquit Village Estates developer Steve Hallett that his proposed traffic mitigation plan should be considered by the Planning Board.

• Board upholds CEO decison but questions fine in Ogunquit tree cutting - 7/3/2008

  OGUNQUIT — The Zoning Board April 26 upheld Code Enforcement Officer Paul Lempicki's claim that the Dunelawn Condominium Association and Bartlett Tree Experts illegally cut trees in the Resource Protection District. At the same time, the board...

• Kennebunkport residents prepared to fight development - 7/3/2008

  KENNEBUNKPORT — Residents are preparing for a fight over the proposed Olde Port Village condominium project. Opposed to the size, scope and impact of the project, residents are turning to attorneys, engineers and wildlife specialists to aid in...

• Stale tale: Police say man stole a breadmaker - 7/3/2008

  YORK, Maine — A New Canaan, N.H., man who tried to haggle over the dough for a used $15 breadmaker at the York Community Thrift Shop was later charged with theft when the machine was found in the back seat of his truck.

• Kennebunk Light and Power plans outage July12-13 - 7/3/2008

  KENNEBUNK — The Kennebunk Light and Power District has announced a planned power outage beginning at 11:30 p.m. Saturday, July 12, and ending no later than 5:30 a.m. Sunday, July 13.

• Guilty verdicts in Superior Court - 7/3/2008

  The following cases were among those adjudicated at York County Superior Court in Alfred, Maine, recently.

• Wells municipal meetings - 7/3/2008

  Friday July 4
  Town offices closed in observance of Independence Day
  Tuesday, July 8
  Board of Directors, 6 p.m., Wells Emergency Medical Services
  Zoning Board of Appeals, 7 p.m., Town Hall
  Wednesday, July 9

• Ogunquit municipal meetings - 7/3/2008

  Friday, July 4
  Town offices closed in observance of Independence Day

• Kennebunkport municipal meetings - 7/3/2008

  Friday, July 4
  Town offices closed in observance of Independence Day
  Monday, July 7
  Village Fire, 7 p.m., Village Fire Station
  Thursday, July 10
  Selectmen, 7 p.m., Village Fire Station

• Kennebunk municipal meetings - 7/3/2008

  Friday, July 4
  Town offices closed in observance of Independence Day
  Monday, July 7
  Conservation Commission, 7 p.m., Town Hall
  Tuesday, July 8
  Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Hall

• York residents: Route 1/River Road intersection an accident waiting to happen - 7/2/2008

  YORK — Someone is going to be killed here one day.

  
• York workers have different affordable housing needs - 7/2/2008

  YORK — Janalee Moquin and her 12-year-old son live at the top of Mount Agamenticus. It's a housing situation Moquin said she "literally just fell into while working for York Parks and Recreation."

  
• Summer officers now on patrol in York - 7/2/2008

  YORK — The town's recent invasion by young men in bright blue shirts, walking or riding bicycles purposefully around town, actually represents this year's crop of summer patrol officers.

  
• Police chief supports decision to close Seapoint Beach to non-residents - 7/2/2008

  KITTERY, Maine — Police Chief Ed Strong congratulated the Town Council on Monday for its decision to close Seapoint Beach to out-of-town vehicles from May 15 to Sept. 30.

• York businesses mixed on success of early summer season - 7/2/2008

  YORK — Soaring gas prices and inclement weather have produced mixed results for York businesses so far this summer season.

• About Town in York - 7/2/2008

  Stage Neck Road will be closed to cars from 6 to 10 p.m. July 5 during the Reading Room fireworks in York Harbor.

• Eliot to adopt new source of tax revenue - 7/2/2008

  ELIOT, Maine — Officials are moving quickly to create a new economic development tool for the town — a Tax Increment Finance District — before the town loses an opportunity to capture tax revenues from the almost-completed gas...

• York Beach Fire Department holds annual parade, cancels muster - 7/2/2008

  YORK — Fourteen fire engines from York and Rollinsford and Portsmouth, N.H., were on display during the York Beach Fire Department's annual firefighters parade Sunday, June 29.

• Kittery officials promised no cuts to school aid - 7/2/2008

  KITTERY, Maine — At a meeting held in Augusta on Friday, Gov. John Baldacci assured Kittery School Department personnel that it will not lose state funding as a penalty for non-compliance with the new Maine school consolidation law, said Rep.