Town of Cape Elizabeth News http://www.capeelizabeth.com News and resources from the Town of Cape Elizabeth, ME Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:46:21 GMT ListGarden Program 1.3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Turn kitchen trash into backyard treasure with the 'Earth Machine' compost bin http://www.capeelizabeth.com/news/2012/compost_bins_4sale2012.html Recycling Committee, in conjunction with the Maine Resource Recovery Association, is once again selling 80-gallon bins at a reduced price. See story for details, link to order form due April 27 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:42:57 GMT http://www.capeelizabeth.com/news/2012/compost_bins_4sale2012.html Art professionals, students called to design message for silver-bullet recycling bins http://www.capeelizabeth.com/news/2012/ecomaine_calltoart.html Cape Elizabeth Middle School was one of last year's winners in ecomaine's "Recycling is a Work of Art" contest. See story for link to details, design submission forms Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:40:38 GMT http://www.capeelizabeth.com/news/2012/ecomaine_calltoart.html Gelato joins the offering of concessions available at Fort Williams Park beginning April 1 http://www.capeelizabeth.com/news/2012/fw_vendors2012_2.html Town awards four permits, three of them to returning food vendors, as pilot program enters second season Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:39:16 GMT http://www.capeelizabeth.com/news/2012/fw_vendors2012_2.html Preliminary estimates show $272,000 decrease in state education funding for next year http://www.capeelizabeth.com/news/2012/sch_stateaid.html Preliminary spreadsheet, published for planning purposes, predicts a Cape Elizabeth subsidy approximately $27,000 lower than was estimated in early October Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:03:19 GMT http://www.capeelizabeth.com/news/2012/sch_stateaid.html Fort Williams Park Master Plan 2011 update set for public hearing Feb. 13 http://www.capeelizabeth.com/news/2012/fw_masterplan_hearing.html Town Council sets public hearing on 94-page document, the most recent update to the master plan guiding the future of Fort Williams Park as a scenic, natural and historic resource Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:45:51 GMT http://www.capeelizabeth.com/news/2012/fw_masterplan_hearing.html Council sets Feb. 13 hearing on proposed sewer-rate increases http://www.capeelizabeth.com/news/2012/sewer_rates.html Proposed increases, totaling 20 percent over the next four years, are needed to help fund nearly completed work on the Southern Cape Wastewater Treatment Facility; and ongoing efforts to curtail overflow near the Ottawa Road pump station Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:18:53 GMT http://www.capeelizabeth.com/news/2012/sewer_rates.html