PORTLAND — As part of a forestry management plan for the woods at Evergreen Cemetery, the state is looking for volunteer birders to help keep an eye on the cemetery’s avian population. The city was awarded funds through the state’s Project Canopy program in 2007, and has used more than $2,500 to create management plans […]

PORTLAND — A dozen students stayed behind at Portland High School Monday afternoon after their peers left with the ringing of the end-of-school bell. The students were not held back for detention, but stayed voluntarily for a new certification program in Global Studies, believed to be the first of its kind in the state. The […]

PORTLAND — When Michael McCarthy became principal at King Middle School in 1988, the Parkside school was not a place where parents wanted to send their children. “There was a lot of violence and there were low expectations for kids,” McCarthy said. “I knew I had to do something dramatic.” Several years later, King became […]

PORTLAND — Urban planners from across the nation will be in Portland next week to find out what kind of improvements the community wants to see in East Bayside. In February, Portland was selected as one of seven U.S. cities to win a grant from the American Institute of Architects to transform a part of […]