Kaleb Kent, Blake Fillmore, Kyle Heath, Austin Blake and Pat Weimer piled on five Blue Blazes hits for six runs in Westbrook’s very first ups at Gorham Friday afternoon – enough to claim victory, it would turn out. But before that happened, the team added 10 more, while the struggling Rams added five of their […]
2014
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Eliot Cutler unveils economic plan aimed at women
It would address the wage gap, reproductive freedom and domestic violence, among other issues.
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Posted inPortland Forecaster, Southern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Portland, South Portland getting waterfront resiliency advice
PORTLAND — They came, they’ll tour, they’ll report. And then they will leave. “We have the great luxury of telling you what we think and getting on a plane and getting back home,” Jim DeFrancia, the leader of a team of eight volunteers from the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Land Institute, joked on Monday after they […]
Posted inNation & World, News
FBI: Cell ping of marathon suspect led to friends
The judge rejects the defendants’ request to move their trials out of state.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
Portland voting on $96.3 million schools budget
Polls are open until 8 p.m.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
Scarborough voting on $42.5 million school budget
The town referendum calls for 7.6 percent increase over current spending.
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, Portland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Falmouth woman indicted for Portland burglaries, more
PORTLAND — A Cumberland County grand jury this month handed up six indictments against a Falmouth woman accused of dozens of crimes in greater Portland and western Maine. Holly L. Doherty, 47, of Jensen Way, Falmouth, was arrested at Sunday River Ski Resort in Bethel in February for allegedly burglarizing vehicles. Evidence gathered in that […]
Posted inMaine, News
Farmer makes his case for selling raw milk: Photo
 A group of small-scale Maine farmers and community activists who support them rallied Tuesday morning at the Cumberland County Courthouse in Portland before the state’s highest court heard the case of Dan Brown, a struggling farmer from Blue Hill who was fined $1,000 by the state in 2011 for selling raw milk without a […]
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Council cool to $90,000 shellfish coordinator
FREEPORT – The town has put a request to fund a Freeport shellfish coordinator back in the lap of the Shellfish Conservation Commission. The commission met last Thursday night in an attempt to justify the proposal. On May 6, the Town Council indicated it wants an explanation as to why the commission opted against the […]
Posted inPortland Forecaster, Southern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Changes for Portland's El Rayo include July opening in Scarborough
PORTLAND — It’s a time of change at El Rayo, but the Mexican restaurant’s co-owners are confident that their taqueria is not going anywhere; in fact, it’s only getting bigger. On Cinco de Mayo, El Rayo Taqueria said goodbye to its nearly 3-year-old sister Cantina next door on York Street. El Rayo co-owners Tod Dana and […]