On an otherwise typical Friday morning Dec. 16 at Mercy Hospital in Portland, patients, visitors, and staff were surprised by the sounds of a harp being played in the lobby of the State Street campus by Dr. Patrice Lockhart, a psychiatrist who is medical director of New England Eating Disorders Program – and a professional […]
December 2016
Posted inPortland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Climate change mitigation ideas flow through Portland's Bayside
PORTLAND — Resilience is in Bayside’s future, but how to deal with potential rising sea levels has not progressed much further than ground zero. On Dec. 14, two events at Mayo Street Arts introduced the public to the new Bayside Adapts Working Group while detailing the risks and methods to mitigate what could be a sea-level […]
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Posted inPolitics
Protests have little effect as Trump clinches Electoral College win
Few electors change their votes although thousands of protesters gather at state capitols around the country.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News
Cushing lobsterman charged in deaths of 2 crewmen
Christopher Hutchinson was the captain and sole survivor of the sinking of the No Limits in 2014. Prosecutors say he used oxycodone, marijuana and alcohol before heading out to sea that day.
Posted inNation & World, News
Florida woman faces felony charges for sending death threats to Sandy Hook shooting victim’s parent
57-year-old Lucy Richards allegedly sent the death threats after being convinced that the shooting of 20 elementary school students was a conspiracy staged to erode support for gun rights.
Posted inFootball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Sports Digest: Semifinalists announced for Gaziano linemen awards
The awards go annually to the top senior linemen in Maine high school football.
Posted inBusiness
NBT Bank chooses leader of Maine expansion as new president and CEO
John Watt opened the bank’s Portland headquarters in 2014 and assembled a team of local bankers.
Posted inPortland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Portland arrest could solve series of robberies
PORTLAND — A Windham man accused of robbing the Shaw’s supermarket at 91 Auburn St. is also being investigated in other robberies that happened over the weekend. Police Lt. Robert Martin said Monday that Joshua Nelson, 45, whose address was not released, was arrested on Congress Street at 11:36 p.m. Sunday, almost two hours after he allegedly […]
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
North Carolina governor says lawmakers will repeal ‘bathroom bill’
Legislators plan to hold a special session to repeal the law which limits protections for LGBT people.
Posted inForecaster Opinion, The Forecaster
The Universal Notebook: Safety (pins) in numbers
The Brexit vote in the United Kingdom in June was regarded by many as a harbinger of the 2016 U.S. presidential election in November. Both votes sent a strong anti-immigrant message. In response to the Brexit vote, many people in the UK started wearing safety pins as a symbol of solidarity with immigrants. In the […]