Owner is charged with keeping a dangerous dog, failing to license and vaccinate it and allowing it to run at large.
2021
Commentary: Nearly 60 million Americans don’t drink their tap water, research suggests
Here’s why that’s a public health problem
Defense rests after Chauvin decides not to testify at his murder trial
Closing arguments are set to begin Monday, after which the racially diverse jury will begin its deliberations.
Freeport-area school district to spend $145,000 on bonuses for some employees
The Board of Directors unanimously approved the $300 end-of-year gift Wednesday.
Restoration of Paris’ Notre Dame continues, but slowed by pandemic
French President Emmanuel Macron visited the building site that Notre Dame has become in the two years since a devastating fire tore through Paris’ most famous cathedral.
Capital projects, new teachers driving Cape E. budget increase
The proposed 2022 budget asks for a 3.4% increase in the tax rate.
Cubans anxious about prospect of 6 decades of Castro rule ending
This week’s Communist Party congress in Cuba could be the last with a Castro at the helm of the island’s all-powerful political institution.
SMCC to add more in-person classes this fall in South Portland, Brunswick
In-person instruction will be expanded to just over 50% of the college’s offerings.
South Portland, Scarborough taking advantage of electric car rebates
South Portland and Scarborough officials are getting a charge out of rebates from the nonprofit Efficiency Maine on new electric and gas-electric hybrid cars. Both communities are leasing or exploring the option of leasing energy-efficient cars for municipal use. Efficiency Maine, an Augusta-based quasi-public nonprofit, started a rebate program in December 2020, offering municipalities as […]
Farnsworth museum given 27 works by three generations of Wyeths
The ‘transformational’ gift comes from the family’s matriarch, Betsy Wyeth, who died last year.