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After holding out, Cumberland votes to start design of Casco Bay Trail (opens the original)
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After tabling it this summer, the Cumberland Town Council on Monday approved $12,000 toward the start of the first section of the Casco Bay Trail. Cumberland had been the lone holdout among the four communities along the initial leg of the trail to approve the federally required funding. The Casco Bay Trail, a planned 72-mile loop from Portland to Auburn and over to Brunswick, would be built along the state-owned St. Lawrence and Atlantic Rail corridor. Last year, the state authorized converting
Here’s what’s in Yarmouth’s new plan for safer streets (opens the original)
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Yarmouth endorsed a new plan to make the town safer and more connected for pedestrians and cyclists. The Yarmouth Active Transportation Plan, approved by the Town Council on Sept. 17, updates the town’s 2015 Bike and Pedestrian Network Plan with new priorities and modernized practices and design standards for slowing traffic and protecting pedestrians. “We are getting increasing concerns and input from residents about speeding and dangerous driving and wanting safe routes, and so this is hopeful
Students learn music from a Grammy winner in Cumberland-area school district (opens the original)
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Monte Selby was in third grade when he wrote his first song. He performed the original “Gun Smoke Gus” while playing guitar in a talent show in his small town of Gage, Oklahoma, and took home a plastic trophy. Selby, 64, now teaches music to elementary schoolers at Mabel I. Wilson School in Cumberland. On Monday, in between a dance circle and playing xylophone, he promised the third graders gathered on the carpet that this year, they would write a song together. Outside his classroom hangs a pho
North Yarmouth’s new code enforcement officer resigns amid subdivision turmoil (opens the original)
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North Yarmouth’s new code enforcement officer resigned last week, continuing a trend of code enforcement turnover as the town navigates a complex and contentious major subdivision approval process. Code enforcement officer Kent Whitten left the position on Sept. 17 after starting in North Yarmouth in May. His departure was announced at the North Yarmouth Planning Board meeting on Sept. 22, which consisted of a public hearing for York Ridge Phase 2, a proposed 35-house subdivision off York Ridge
Cumberland council chair charged with OUI (opens the original)
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The Chair of the Cumberland Town Council was arrested on Labor Day for operating under the influence, police say. The Yarmouth Police Department arrested Michael Edes, 67, at approximately 10:20 p.m. on Sept. 7, Chief David Gallant said. While being processed at the Yarmouth Police Department, Edes refused a breath, blood or urine test, police said. Edes was charged with operating under the influence and issued summons for October. While Edes’ attorney Jon Goodman confirmed Edes was charged with
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