Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Sunday 6/26 Freeport Players Auditions, for “The Foreigner,” 1-2:30 p.m., and 6:30-8 p.m. Monday, June 27, be prepared to cold read from script, try southern and/or British accents, Freeport High School cafeteria, Holbrook St., Freeport, FMI, fcponline.org/auditions, 865-2220. Books, Authors Wednesday 6/15 Melissa Coleman, author of “This Life is […]
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Out & About: Summer theater, festivals in full swing
We’re still a week away from the astronomical start of summer, but Maine’s seasonal theater and music festivals won’t wait for the solstice. In Brunswick, Maine State Music Theatre lifted the curtain on its 53rd summer season last week with a wonderful professional production of “The Marvelous Wonderettes,” a tuneful and nostalgic jukebox musical that […]
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Average gasoline prices down again
PORTLAND — Maine motorists are continuing to enjoy decreasing gasoline prices, which are 25 cents per gallon lower than they were a month ago but still higher than a year ago. The price-watching website MaineGasPrices.com says the average retail gasoline price in Maine has fallen 4.6 cents per gallon in the past week to $3.73 […]
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NBA FINALS: Mavericks finish off Heat, win title
MIAMI (AP) — Dirk Nowitzki got the Dallas Mavericks to the brink of an NBA championship. His teammates did the rest, a perfect ending for a club that talked all season about its greatest strength being the sum of its parts.
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Tidal energy vessel visits Portland for conference
PORTLAND — A research vessel is visiting Portland, Maine, carrying the largest tidal energy turbine ever deployed in the U.S. The Energy Tide 2 arrived on the city’s waterfrontthis morning. The vessel and turbine are owned by Ocean Renewable Power Co. and are home-ported in Eastport, where Ocean Renewable’s prototype underwater power system is scheduled […]
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Forecaster Forum: A dance recital reveals more than ballet cliche
I was in no mood to go to our daughter Elizabeth’s dance recital at Maine State Ballet in Falmouth. It was the Saturday after the Tuesday I got my new hip. Before minimally invasive surgery, hip replacement meant days in the hospital, weeks of inactivity and months of painful rehab. I had been out of […]
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The Universal Notebook: The perils of parking in Portland
While attending the First Friday Art Walk earlier this month, I got a $25 ticket for parking in a no-parking zone on Oak Street in Portland. I must say, I got no sympathy from my lovely wife Carolyn: “You saw the no-parking sign. You parked there anyway. You got a ticket. And you’re complaining about […]
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Superintendent's Notebook: Salute to our graduates
We have just completed graduation season in the Portland Public Schools. All of the graduates of our four high schools and Portland Adult Education deserve praise for their accomplishments in completing their degrees. Since my space is limited, I will tell you about a representative sample. Joseph Luka, a Deering High School graduate, survived an […]
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Police seek Lewiston robbery suspect
LEWISTON — Lewiston police are asking for help from the public in finding the man responsible for robbing a Main Street restaurant. Police say the suspect went into Sam’s Italian Foods just after 11 a.m. Sunday and demanded money from the person behind the register. No weapon was shown. The suspect fled with an undisclosed […]