A seafaring Mainer brings the UB85, a distinctive former Navy boat, to the waterfront to taxi tourists on Casco Bay in style.
2015
Posted inNews
New York prison staffer charged with helping killers escape
Joyce Mitchell pleads not guilty to giving contraband to David Sweat and Richard Matt, who remained at large a week after escaping.
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Posted inPortland Forecaster, Southern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Portland picks South Portland's Jennings for city manager
PORTLAND — Jon Jennings, the assistant city manager in South Portland, has been selected to become Portland’s next city manager. “We are pleased that Jon has accepted our offer to be Portland’s next city manager. His unique background in both government and business will serve the City well,” Mayor Michael Brennan said in an email […]
Posted inMaine, News
South Portland administrator chosen as Portland’s new city manager
Jon Jennings, the former president and co-owner of the Maine Red Claws franchise, will take over at City Hall during a time of significant transition.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News
Man charged with 2013 Biddeford murder pleads not guilty to new charge
Bub Peter Nguany, 27, of Old Orchard Beach, was indicted on the conspiracy charge in May, more than two years after his arrest for the shooting of 47-year-old Charles Raybine.
Posted inNation & World, News
Search for escaped murderers enters 7th day in northern NY
Residents in Dannemora received automated calls Thursday warning them to lock their doors, close their windows and leave outside lights on.
Posted inNation & World, News
Former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn acquitted of pimping
He argued that sex parties were needed at a time of world economic peril and that he didn’t know the women who took part were prostitutes.
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
Voters approve SAD 6 budget
Despite weak turnouts, the $46.5 million School Administrative District 6 budget unofficially passed overall, as of Wednesday. Voters in Buxton, Hollis and Standish supported it while voters in Limington and Frye Island defeated it. In a squeaker, Buxton voters narrowly passed the school budget by 50 votes, 362-312, while nine other ballots were left blank. […]
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
Voters approve beach, elect three new councilors
Standish voters elected Isabel Higgins, Kimberly Pomerleau and Lester Ordway to the Town Council Tuesday, while also approving a bond question to fund the creation of a public beach on the western shore of Sebago Lake. Town Council term limits imposed by voters last summer forced Councilors Phil Pomerleau and Margaret Spencer from office Tuesday. […]