Awards Avesta Housing was recently awarded a $100,000 affordable housing grant through the TD Charitable Foundation’s Housing for Everyone grant competition. The grant will be used to fund accessibility retrofits at Logan Place, allowing residents with physical disabilities to live as independently as possible. Since 2005, Logan Place has provided 30 chronically homeless individuals with […]
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Portland Police Beat: Jan. 9
Arrests 12/28 at 8 a.m. Jeffrey Curran, 35, of Portland, was arrested on Washington Avenue by Officer Kristan Steele on a charge of assault. 12/28 at 9 a.m. Daniel P. Fleming, 32, no address listed, was arrested on Riverside Street by Officer John Cunniff on an outstanding warrant from another agency and a charge of […]
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Gun discharges inside Bath apartment
BATH Police said no one was injured when shots were fired inside a Central Avenue apartment Monday night, the result of a woman interrupting a suicide attempt by her mother. Bath police responded to a report of a shooting at 8:36 p.m. Lt. Stan Cielinski said on arrival, Sgt. Dan Couture and officers Jason Aucoin and […]
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UPDATE: Harpswell charter school advances
HARPSWELLFor Rob and Tracey Logan, it’s about options for their 10-year-old son.Logan said his son does well in subjects like math and history, and has a double-dose of creativeness. But sometimes the fifth-grader has a hard time with how the classroom functions. So the Logans are celebrating Tuesday’s decision by the Maine Charter School Commission […]
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Charter schools exempt from cuts
Maine’s new charter schools will not share in the $12.6 million in cuts that hit public schools when the governor issued his curtailment of spending order late last month. The Maine School Management Association — an organization representing Maine school boards — said the funding cuts are unfair to more than 50 public school districts […]
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BIW shatters its lift record
BATH In 128 years of building warships for the Navy, Bath Iron Works has achieved innumerable mind-boggling accomplishments, but never anything like what happened at 2:04 a.m. on Dec. 15. That’s when the deckhouse of the shipyard’s newest project, the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer, first made contact with the rest of the next-generation warship. Hoisting […]
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Maine ripe for Community Wind
AUGUSTA Net energy billing could allow for the owner of an apple orchard in Monmouth to partner with a school in Topsham on a wind power project that would benefit both. The concept, going gangbusters in Massachusetts and Vermont, is underutilized in Maine. Sue Jones, president of Freeport-based Community Energy Partners (Comm- En), hopes to […]
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Unusual sentence for Brunswick man
PORTLAND A federal judge Friday sentenced a Brunswick man to one day in prison for robbing an Arundel bank last year, followed by a mandatory seven years for using a gun. U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen imposed the unusual sentence on Travis Leeman, 30, who pleaded guilty last year to the armed bank robbery. Leeman, […]
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Lisbon sees trail from rails
LISBON The Town Council will discuss the feasibility of siting a trail from Lisbon to Lewiston as part of the town’s efforts to update a 2004 bicycle and pedestrian plan. Town Manager Steve Eldridge said the trail could go alongside the existing rail line, but the better plan would be to remove the rails and […]