2019
Posted inLetters

Letter to the editor: Portland is mishandling process of siting homeless shelter

The pathetic rhetoric that occupies our city government on the subject of caring for the homeless has reached the point of pointless. After countless meetings and backroom discussions sans the real stakeholders, Commercial Street and Riverside (again) are the best they have to offer. Apparently, ignorance is bliss. The methodology and decision-making process has been […]

Posted inCommunity

Briefs

PORTLAND Writers and publishers group names fellowship winner The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance announced that Megan Shea of Georgetown is the recipient of the spring 2019 Martin Dibner Memorial Fellowship for Maine Writers, a partnership between the Maine Community Foundation and the MWPA. Shea will attend the MWPA’s Black Fly Writers Retreat from May […]

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Posted inJournal Tribune

Sri Lanka identifies group suspected in Easter bombings

by BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI and KRISHAN FRANCIS

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The coordinated Easter Sunday bombings that ripped through Sri Lankan churches and luxury hotels, killing more than 200 people, were carried out by seven suicide bombers from a domestic militant group named National Thowfeek Jamaath, a government official said Monday. All of the bombers were Sri Lankan citizens, but authorities […]

Posted inForecaster Sports, The Forecaster

Spring sports season off to a slow start-Portland edition

by Michael Hoffer

Deering’s Tre Fletcher slides into third base as the ball gets away during the Rams’ 20-4 season-opening loss to Marshwood last week. (Ed. Note: For the complete Deering-Marshwood baseball game story, see theforecaster.net) The spring sports season has gotten off to a slow start for local teams, due to questionable weather and field conditions, but […]

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