PORTLAND — The Alive at Five concert series in Monument Square opens Thursday with the Mallett Brothers and Paranoid Social Club. The free series will run through Aug. 4, from 5-7:30 p.m., and includes a beer garden run by Sebago Brewing Co. For more information and the complete schedule, log on to PortlandMaine.com.
2011
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Months of work slated for busy Portland intersection
PORTLAND — A nearly five-month construction project at one of the city’s busiest intersections was scheduled to begin Tuesday. The Maine Department of Transportation is making improvements to the Riverside Street and Warren Avenue intersection, including roadway widening, additional lanes, new sidewalks, improved signals and new guardrail. About 22,000 vehicles use the intersection daily. Drivers […]
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Avg. Maine gasoline price drops to $3.63
But the average price of a gallon of gas is still 86.2 cents per gallon higher than the same day a year ago.
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Group markets greater Portland lifestyle at biotech conference
PORTLAND — The Portland Technology Park may exist only on paper, but that isn’t stopping the city’s economic development director from marketing it to a global audience. Last week, Economic Development Director Greg Mitchell was among officials from the Greater Portland Economic Development Corp. who went to Washington, D.C., for the 2011 BIO International Convention. […]
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Portland Police Beat: July 5
Arrests Note: The Portland Police Department did not provide ages or hometowns for arrests and did not respond to requests for more information prior to deadline. 6/26 at 3 p.m. Wyatt Weston Bowman was arrested on Congress Square by Officer Gavin Hillard on a charge of criminal trespass. 6/26 at 10 p.m. Brian T. York […]
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Portland-area schools stand to lose millions in state funding
PORTLAND — School districts in southern and mid-coast Maine stand to lose millions in state funding next year, after a last-minute change to the way the state distributes money for essential programs and services. The change was narrowly approved by the state Senate late in the afternoon of its last session before summer recess. The […]
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Gertrude MacDonald Caiazzo, 95: Devoted mother, grandmother
PORTLAND — Gertrude MacDonald Caiazzo, 95, died July 2 at Maine Medical Center following a brief illness. Born in Portland on Dec. 11, 1915, the daughter of Archibald and Bridget Flaherty MacDonald, she attended local schools and graduated from the Cathedral High School in 1934. On May 24, 1938, she married William E. Caiazzo at […]
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Fireworks misfire sends boy to hospital
GEORGETOWN — Police say an 11-year-old boy is recovering after being hit in the eye with fireworks that were shot off by his father in Georgetown. Officials tell WCSH-TV that the boy and his family were visiting from New Hampshire when they decided to set off some fireworks Monday night. Police say one of […]
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Portland schools move closer to consolidating sports boosters
PORTLAND — Before taking its annual summer recess, the School Board last week approved a work plan that would eliminate individual sports booster programs and fold each high school’s boosters into a single entity, while creating a nonprofit organization to oversee the boosters’ finances and fundraising. The board did not approve a $100,000 foundation director […]
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Portland eyes borrowing $1.5M to fix century-old Kotzschmar organ
PORTLAND — On Aug, 22, 2012, the Kotzschmar organ will be a century old, making it the oldest working municipal organ in the U.S. Its birthday present may be a $2.6 million make-over. The City Council is expected to conduct a first reading July 18 of a proposal to borrow up to $1.5 million to […]