April 1981
The World Affairs Council of Maine suggests, as a “Great Decisions” topic for study in 1981, “From Cairo to Kabul; Oil, Islam, Israel and Instability.”
Someone poured a long trail of kerosene or a liquid lacquer, through Scarborough High School during the night Wednesday and tried to set it afire. It didn’t ignite. The long trail led through the office of Principal Alexander Juniewicz.
Windham is studying future use of 18 acres of town recreation land on the Windham Center Road.
The state is stockpiling sand and salt off Libby Avenue, Gorham, and the run-off is killing trees and other vegetation nearby and polluting neighbors’ wells.
Westbrook School Committee Chairman Fred Wescott called for a school budget that’s easier to understand. School Superintendent Carl Knowlton responded by advising the School Committee to leave details to the staff. Knowlton called the committee into a closed-door session and refused to say what it was about.
Fancy, a mare owned by Linda Gregoire, gave birth to Brandy in the pasture of Gregoire’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Walker of 436 East Bridge St. as a crowd watched.
At a hearing in Augusta on acid rain, Rob Gardiner, director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, presented to U. S. Senator George Mitchell an opened umbrella that said, “acid rain umbrella.”
Frank Morong is unopposed for re-election on May 5 to the District 1 seat on the South Portland City Council.
South Portland High School will install the first members and accept the charter of its chapter of the National Honor Society, which is 50 years old this year.
Scarborough may start community gardens where individuals can rent spaces. Respond to the Scarborough Conservation Commission.
Mr. and Mrs. Waino Ray, Hillview Road, Gorham, vacationed in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, visiting friends.
April 1991
Dana Connors, Maine’s commissioner of transportation, told an audience in Gorham that a bypass is “an alternative of last resort” as a solution to Gorham’s traffic problems. Bernard Rines spoke in favor of a bypass. Connors said a bypass “will affect people adversely” and “it is incumbent on us to do everything we can with the existing system.”
A burglar has ransacked seven church buildings in Gorham and Windham in the past 10 days. In one, the suspect took more than $3,000 in cash and checks.
Scarborough’s Town Council voted 5-2 to continue the pay of Town Manager Carl Betterley at $60,840, but added $2,200 for a disability insurance premium. Betterley has been manager 12 years.
William Cuddy, 28, of Westbrook, won the $3.3 million Megabucks jackpot Saturday. He has six children and no job.
The Reece Corporation has been in the Gorham Industrial Park 17 years. Now it’s part of AMF Reece Inc. and is moving to Richmond, Va. It employs 220 in Gorham, and paid $178,690 in property tax last year.
Richard “Baldy” Tompson and his wife Eva are resigning as Standish’s assessor and assistant assessor in protest of working conditions set by Town Manager Suzanne Kennedy, who already has vowed to fire him.
Wilton F. Chick, 615 Saco St., Westbrook, has been a member of Temple Masonic Lodge 50 years.
The Maine French Fiddlers, formed in 1987, will give a performance in the School Street United Methodist Church, Gorham.
“Fine Homebuilding,” a national magazine, has printed the dress-home plans of Carrie Roberts, 11, daughter of Gary and Sue Ellen Roberts, Edgewood Road, South Portland. Her dream house would have a bowling alley, a billiard room, two video arcades, a workout room, a rec room, and three swimming pools, one of which would be reached only by her secret passageway.
The Leo Club is returning as an extra-curricular activity at South Portland High School, for boys and girls, sponsored by the South Portland Lions Club with community service goals.
The South Portland Taxpayers’ Association may put Proposition 3 back before voters. Voters approved it in 1988 after city budget increases of 17 and 22 percent, the spending limits of Proposition 3 were voted out a year later after an expensive campaign against it.
Petitioners who want Standish to return to selectmen- town manager government got enough signatures in seven days to force a referendum.
Jack Critchley schedules and directs the cable-casting of Gorham public meetings on Public Cable’s lines. He gets no pay. The town pays the others who run the cameras and equipment – $5,652 total last year.
Army 4th class Specialist Michael Grimmett, of the 82nd Airborne division, son of Coleman and Jane Grimmett, Pearl street, South Portland, got a big welcome as he returned from Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
The Presumpscot River crested at 17.06 feet Monday, the National Weather Service said. Over 15 feet is considered flood stage.
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