PORTLAND — What’s in a name? For the Cumberland County Civic Center, potentially millions of dollars. So the Civic Center Board of Trustees is getting some professional help in selling rights to rename the arena, Board Chairman Neal Pratt said July 12. The board has retained Front Row Marketing Services to act as an agent […]
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City Council puts legal recreational use of marijuana in Portland voters' hands
PORTLAND — Voters will get to decide on Nov. 5 whether the city should legalize the recreational use of marijuana by adults. The City Council on Monday decided, 5-1, to table a proposed ordinance that would allow people over 21 to possess up to 2.5 ounces of the drug for recreational use. Councilor David Marshall […]
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Chef David Turin’s 10th Restaurant, Opus Ten – Where the menu tells a story that has been decades in the works
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Dining at David’s Opus Ten is not an experience in avant-garde molecular gastronomy. Instead, from taste to taste you’ll find familiar flavors in presentations and textures that surprise and enhance.
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Spreading the Love: Cupcake bakers re-enter Portland food truck arena
PORTLAND — Love Cupcakes, known for the green-and-pink 1960s trailer that has become a Route 1 fixture in Falmouth, is expanding to the Old Port this summer with a new food truck. Again. Owners Anna and Joey Turcotte tested the Portland food truck waters in 2012, the first business to do so after the city […]
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Beach weather continues into weekend
Portland and surrounding communities reached and exceeded the 90 degree mark yesterday. It appears likely many areas will reach the lower 90s again today, especially just a few miles inland. This morning you should notice slightly drier air across the region. It’s not that there isn’t humidity, it’s just that the level is less […]
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Maine astronaut’s spacewalk cut short after partner’s helmet scare
Chris Cassidy and another astronaut were performing some cable work and other maintenance chores when a helmet leak occurred.
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Portland outlaws median-strip loitering, panhandling
PORTLAND — After hearing testimony from nearly two dozen residents, the City Council on Monday unanimously voted into law a ban on loitering in street medians – a measure critics have said is a thinly disguised attempt to stamp out panhandling in the city. The ban, which was proposed a year ago, but failed in […]
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Portland forum seeks input on state's school funding model
PORTLAND — As part of a study of the state’s school subsidy formula, a firm commissioned by the Legislature will host a public meeting on the issue Thursday from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Casco Bay High School. The Essential Services and Programs funding model, used to determine how much money the state provides to local school systems, […]
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More great white sharks spotted off Cape Cod
The shark spotted Sunday within 100 feet of the beach was about 15 feet long.
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Witness: It was either pay Bulger or ‘get killed’
Michael Solimando described terrifying moments in 1982 when he said Bulger held a handgun to his face, then pushed a machine gun to his groin.