PORTLAND — Some University of Maine School of Law students willingly spent Christmas behind bars. They are volunteering at a detention center operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Laredo, Texas. The five students, all enrolled in the school’s Refugee and Human Rights Clinic, are part of a group of 10 volunteers helping attorneys […]

PORTLAND — With the new year, Baxter Academy for Technology and Science will welcome students to a new, custom-outfitted location on Lancaster Street. The move means that for the first time in several years all classes and programming at the public charter school will be held in one, centralized place. The 185 Lancaster St. building in […]

PORTLAND — For now, City Council committees do not exist while two proposals to staff and lead them from Mayor Ethan Strimling have been rejected. “I am operating under the pretense we are not going to have committees,” Strimling said Dec. 20, two days after his first list was rejected by an 8-1 vote. The […]

PORTLAND — With a City Council vote scheduled Jan. 3, 2018, on an ordinance regulating pesticide use, city officials are looking into what it will cost to implement restrictions on public property. Two days after the Dec. 18 postponement of a council vote on the ordinance, city Sustainability Coordinator Troy Moon said he is gathering […]

Arrests 12/17 at 12:11 p.m. Phillip B. Moffitt, 77, of Portland, was arrested on Riverside Street by Officer Sara Clukey on an outstanding warrant from another agency. 12/17 at 1:25 p.m. Camille Brassard, 74, of Portland, was arrested on Oxford Street by Officer Blake Cunningham on a charge of criminal trespass. 12/17 at 1:38 p.m. […]