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Local & State, News, Times Record

State’s top court rules in dispute over Scarborough tax breaks

by Megan Gray December 24, 2019December 26, 2019

The dispute centered on a widespread but little-known benefit for people who own a vacant adjacent lot.

Local & State, News

After 44 years, she reunites with her birth mother, halfway across the globe

by Kelley Bouchard December 22, 2019December 23, 2019

Separated during Operation Babylift, Leigh Boughton Small travels from Scarborough to Vietnam looking for answers and a deeper understanding of herself and her anguished mom.

Op-Eds, Opinion

Commentary: Proposed Maine local option tax would be a losing proposition

by Jacob Posik December 19, 2019December 18, 2019

Border-county businesses would forfeit sales, and taxpayers in most of the state’s municipalities would see little benefit.

Local & State, Maine Crime, News, Times Record

Freeport man killed farmer in Scarborough and attacked 2 others in violent rampage, police say

by Matt Byrne and Dennis Hoey December 17, 2019December 17, 2019

Quinton Hanna, 22, is charged with a string of crimes Sunday that began in Scarborough with the fatal stabbing of an 82-year-old man and ended four hours later in Brunswick.

Local & State, Maine Crime, News

Scarborough homicide victim is remembered as ‘the real genuine thing’

by Eric Russell December 16, 2019December 17, 2019

Friends of Jim Pearson, stunned by his killing outside his home Sunday, remember how he touched their lives when he taught at Gorham High School and ran his Christmas tree farm on Beech Ridge Road.

Local & State, Maine Crime, News, Times Record

Police investigating random killing in Scarborough pursue possible links to other attacks

by Gillian Graham, Dennis Hoey and Darcie Moore December 16, 2019December 17, 2019

Authorities are trying to determine whether the slaying Sunday of James Pearson and violent assaults during the weekend in Freeport and West Bath are connected.

Business, Local & State, News, Uncategorized

Morrison Center to merge with Bangor group

by Carol Coultas December 13, 2019December 13, 2019

The Scarborough nonprofit offers services to people with disabilities, and says its merger with UCP of Maine will allow for strategic growth and long-term viability.