Portland Public Schools announces new administrators A new athletic director at Deering High School and a new assistant principal at Portland High school will be among the administrators greeting students at Portland Public Schools this fall. Michael Daly has two decades of experience in coaching and leadership for college and high school athletics, sports administration, […]
2019
Posted inNation & World
Hong Kong police, protesters clash at airport, disrupting a key international hub
Arrivals and departures returned to normal on Wednesday, and the airport authority obtained a court order to prevent people from obstructing the terminal.
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Posted inPortland Forecaster, The Forecaster
City Council approves requirements for Peaks Island golf carts
Operators will be required to register their vehicles and have them inspected starting next May.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Trump official says Statue of Liberty should welcome masses ‘who can stand on their own two feet’
Ken Cuccinelli made the comments to defend the Trump administration’s announcement that the government would consider an immigrant’s use of social safety net programs when deciding their permanent legal status.
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Opinion
Joe Guzzardi: Lifelong fan divorces baseball, cites irreconcilable differences
Citing irreconcilable differences, I have filed for divorce from Major League Baseball. Rob Manfred, baseball’s chief bean counter, thinks fans want more excitement, e.g., more home runs, and shorter games, automatic intentional walks and, under consideration, starting extra-inning games with a baserunner on second. But I’m from the era when baseball was considered the thinking […]
Posted inTimes Record
Review: With ruby red slippers, munchkins and monkeys, MSMT’s ‘The Wizard of Oz’ still the beloved classic
BRUNSWICK– Some parts of classic shows just can’t be changed. In “Beauty in the Beast,” Belle wears a golden gown as she and the Beast dance to a tale as old as time. In “Hello Dolly!,” Dolly Gallagher-Levi makes her entrance at the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant in a stunning red dress. In “The Wizard of […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Opinion
Opinion: Why the 2020 census matters for rural Americans
As director of the University of Mississippi Center for Population Studies, I regularly talk to people about how they can use data to help their communities thrive. The decennial census is particularly important – and the next one is less than a year away. People living in rural and small town America in particular have much at […]
Posted inTimes Record
Brunswick hires cultural broker to help asylum seekers
BRUNSWICK — Nsiona Nguizani started work Monday as Brunswick’s new cultural broker, tasked with helping asylum seekers get settled in town and acclimated to life in the U.S. An African immigrant himself and the president of the Angolan Community of Maine, Nguizani lives in Westbrook and has been working extensively with the asylees in Portland, […]
Posted inTimes Record
Vandals deface gravestones at Lisbon’s St. Anne’s Cemetery
LISBON — Vandals defaced several gravestones at St. Anne’s Cemetery in Lisbon over the weekend. As many as three stones were spray-painted with profanity. The large marble altar at the hilltop was also tagged. A lewd image was painted on another nearby stone marking the final resting place of a couple who died in the […]
Posted inTimes Record
Scease resigns from Topsham-area school board
TOPSHAM — Jane Scease, a member of the Maine School Administrative District 75 school board, has announced she will step down at the end of September. According to the resignation letter she submitted to Topsham officials last month, her resignation is effective Sept. 30. “I plan to move out of the district during the fall, […]