SCARBOROUGH — A Steep Falls man died Saturday night at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, about an hour after racing concluded. Scarborough Police Detective Sgt. Rick Rouse said Gregory Rowe, 47, fell under a race car trailer being towed by a truck, possibly as he straddled the tongue of the trailer. The incident occurred about 11:30 […]
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Henry N. Paradis
1932 – 2013 SCARBOROUGH — Henry N. Paradis Jr., 81, of Rackleff Street, Portland, died Saturday, Aug. 3, surrounded by family and friends at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough. He was born Jan. 22, 1932, in Lewiston, the son of Henry N. Paradis and Adrienne I. Janelle and brother of Joan Patricia Paradis. He […]
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Feds probing death of endangered bird at Pine Point
SCARBOROUGH (AP) — Officials in the Maine town of Scarborough said they are cooperating with a federal investigation into whether the town bears any responsibility for the death of a piping plover chick at Pine Point Beach. The shore bird was killed by a dog on the beach last month. Piping plovers are considered an […]
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Jury finds Scarborough man not guilty of attempted murder, but convicts on 3 other counts
PORTLAND — The defense is declaring a partial victory Monday in the trial of a Scarborough man accused of severely beating a Portland woman after the jury found Eric Gwaro not guilty of attempted murder but guilty of three other charges. Gwaro, 28, was found not guilty of Class A attempted murder, but guilty of […]
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Scarborough won’t regulate roadside memorials
SCARBOROUGH — Town councilors have made a full retreat from considering restrictions on roadside memorials for accident victims. The proposed regulations were sent to the council last month, but dropped from the agenda for Wednesday night’s meeting. Council Chairman Ron Ahlquist said removing the proposed regulations from the agenda was his call, and came after […]
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Officials investigate plover killed by dog at Scarborough beach
AUUGUSTA (AP) — Federal and state wildlife officials are investigating after a dog killed a protected piping plover chick on a Scarborough beach. A spokesman for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says a woman spotted an unleashed dog on Pine Point Beach on Monday morning approaching a plover nest. She warned the […]
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Scarborough considers regulating roadside memorials
SCARBOROUGH — Three or four times a week, Kevin Grondin visits and grooms a spot near Payne and Scarborough Downs roads where Steven Delano was fatally injured in a car crash on May 8, 2010. Makeshift memorials like these may soon have to be marked in more formal and town-sanctioned manners — or removed altogether. […]