Election results: Cumberland, Falmouth, North Yarmouth, Yarmouth
Mark Segrist handily wins a spot on the Cumberland Town Council, while most other incumbents in Falmouth, Yarmouth and North Yarmouth retain their seats on councils and school boards.
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Kit Maloney of North Yarmouth inserts her ballot into the scanner Tuesday. A vacant North Yarmouth seat on the SAD 51 school board went to newcomer Thomas P. McGuinness, who secured 461 votes to 405 votes for Vanessa Bryant.
Patti Mikkelsen / For The Forecaster
Following Tuesday’s elections, most incumbents retained their seats on local town councils and school boards in municipalities covered by The Northern Forecaster.
A new paper that has been accepted for publication in Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics, the peer-reviewed journal of The College of Optometrists (UK), furthers understanding of myopia control efficacy in the context of normal childhood eye growth. Axial Length Targets for Myopia Control (Chamberlain P, et al.) is now available online via Open Access.
Petition drive to remove 4 Cumberland school board members falls short
Upset that SAD 51 has kept a hybrid of remote and in-class learning, petitioners say they will continue to push for a return to five full days of classroom learning in the fall.
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A petition drive to remove four Cumberland representatives from the regional school board failed to gather enough signatures to get on the June 8 ballot, Town Clerk Tammy O’Donnell said Monday.
A sign outside the Mabel Wilson School in Cumberland last month calls for five days of in-person classes this spring in SAD 51.
Shawn Patrick Ouellette / Portland Press Herald