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South Portland police arrest N.Y. man on forgery charges

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Tuesday, April 22nd, 9:58 am


SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- South Portland police arrested a man Monday after recovering more than $1000 in counterfeit $100 bills.

A police officer was patrolling the Maine Mall when a store employee approached him and said a young female had attempted to buy an item with an obvious $100 counterfeit bill. The officer located the female, a 16-year-old juvenile, and spoke with her. The conversation revealed that there were three other juvenile females from New York City at the mall trying to use similar bills.

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Clean Water Bond could correct mistakes by investing in water quality improvements.

Submitted by Tim Goff on Monday, April 14th, 5:19 pm


SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- With more than 6,000 lakes and ponds and roughly 32,000 miles of streams and rivers, Maine is a water rich state, but aging infrastructure and development pressures have had a negative impact on some of that valuable water resource.

In years past, when engineers were looking to build a bridge or install a culvert, the majority of the design work focused on getting vehicle traffic from one side to the other, with how fish would travel beneath the road surface being an afterthought.

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Million Meals Maine feeds starving children

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Sunday, April 13th, 7:53 pm


SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Hundreds volunteered for the Million Meals Maine event, preparing meals for starving families worldwide.

Through a partnership between a local volunteer committee and donors and global hunger charity Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), 600 volunteers prepared 100,000 meals on Sunday.

200 members of the White Pine Community Church in Cumberland volunteered. Pastor Joe Campbell said it canceled Sunday service for the event.

According to FMSC, approximately 870 million people are starving worldwide, and 1 in 4 are children under the age of 5.


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A car struck a pedestrian in Scarborough

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Friday, April 11th, 12:11 pm


SCARBOROUGH, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- A car struck a pedestrian at the corner of Route 1 and Hannaford Drive in Scarborough.

North-bound traffic on Route 1 is closed between Oak Hill and Hannaford Drive. Hannaford Drive approaching Route 1 will also be closed.

We'll update this story when we have more information.


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The closure of a small section of Higgins Beach has ruffled some feathers in Scarborough.

Submitted by Tim Goff on Monday, April 7th, 5:21 pm


SCARBOROUGH, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- When signs were erected late last week closing off a small section of Higgins Beach to the public, complaints started rolling in to town and state officials from residents concerned that they'd lost access to that part of the beach forever.

"Higgins is a huge beach, and what we are cordoning off at the tip is actually a small portion of that beach," explained Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Assistant Regional Biologist, Brad Zitske. "It is one of the few beaches in the state that piping plovers have used historically."

Zitske says the state took similar actions last year to protect the endangered birds. He says the move has nothing to do with an incident last year where a plover chick was mauled by a dog on nearby Pine Point Beach.

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TD Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race 2014

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Friday, April 4th, 11:42 am


CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- This year marks the 17th year for the road race founded by Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson. It is set for Saturday, Aug. 2 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

The online portion of the TD Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race registration filled 4,000 slots in a record-setting 4:32 on Friday morning.

For more information: http://www.beach2beacon.org/


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A woman who has experienced the fallout from a tar sands oil spill is speaking out about the issue in Maine.

Submitted by Sarah Delage on Friday, March 28th, 7:47 pm


PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- A woman who has experienced the fallout from a tar sands oil spill is speaking out about the issue in Maine.

Genevieve Long of Mayflower, Ark., joined the "Protect South Portland" organization at a press conference Friday.

Long said she lives a quarter of a mile from the Exxon Mobil Pipeline that ruptured in March 2013. She said her family's health has suffered since the spill.

Environmental groups have been working to keep tar sands from flowing through the Portland-Montreal Pipeline that travels from Canada to Casco Bay.

Long told Maine residents to educate themselves about tar sands Friday.

"No one's going to protect the air you breathe like you do," Long said. "No one's going to protect your aquatic life, your children, like you do. It is your home. You have to fight for what is right for you."

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