The Honor Guard for Maine’s Department of Corrections marches past Preble Street on Monday during the Memorial Day parade on Congress Street in Portland. During a ceremony later, Mayor Michael Brennan called for greater support for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other ailments. Music teacher Gilbert Peltola conducts the Deering High School band […]

Eighth-grader Lucy Tumavicus receives a grand sendoff Friday, May 23, during a surprise assembly in the gymnasium at Lincoln Middle School in Portland. Tumavicus, who won this year’s Maine State Spelling Bee, is representing Maine this week in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Maryland.

PORTLAND — Zach Schmesser has an idea that is all wet. The Libra Future Fund will help him splash it around. Schmesser, 28, is the coordinator of BikeMaine for the Bicycle Coalition of Maine. During last summer’s trek across the state with 250 riders, he noticed bicyclists in need of showers could quickly use up […]