The Cumberland Town Council is poised to move ahead with a controversial affordable housing project that compromises the integrity of the town plan for the neighborhood at Tuttle and Drowne roads. This project calls for the construction of 107 units and has provision for approximately 200 parked cars and over 200 residents – more than […]
2023
Posted inForecaster Opinion, The Forecaster
Forum: Town’s climate action plan omits a key threat: idling motors
The town of Falmouth’s Climate Action Plan just landed in my email inbox. Town leaders deserve kudos for the years of work that produced the plan, which “contains strategies and actions that will guide decisions and development for the town until 2050.” The above quote from the plan is important. These sorts of documents are […]
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Posted inCoastal Journal, Northern Forecaster, Portland Forecaster, Southern Forecaster, The Forecaster
People and Business: Dec. 27
Hires, promotions, appointments Caitlin DiMillo, a senior vice president and client advisor at Spinnaker Trust, was promoted to principal. She joined the firm in 2015 and was the firm’s chief trust officer for five years. Tricia Tompkins has been promoted to director of new business and client relations for Migis Hotel Group and Paul Raudonat […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly, The Forecaster
Mainewhile: Head healthily into winter by heading out to the woods
Well, here we all are. The holiday season has peaked, and now we are slushing and sliding into the new year. How are you holding up? The question might sound flippant, but I mean it. Winter is hard and while the holidays, with all of the lights and the “making merry” and whatnot, are intended […]
Posted inMaine, News
2023 Photos of the Year: Maine’s asylum seekers
In recent years, thousands of asylum seekers, mostly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola, have made their way to Maine, hearing that it’s a safe haven. From January to June, more than 1,600 arrived in Portland in need of help. The city found itself frequently overwhelmed, with little to no space available in its shelters as families, including many with small children, kept coming. Community groups, nonprofits and churches helped house and guide the newcomers. The city turned the gym in the Portland Expo into temporary housing from the spring into late summer. Our photographers spent months this year documenting the lives of new asylum seekers trying to make their way in an unfamiliar place and checking in on others who had been for years to see how their lives in Maine had turned out.
Posted inMaine, News
2023 Photos of the Year: Homeless in Portland
Homelessness in Portland grew to new dimensions in 2023. Even as a new city shelter opened in Riverton, homeless encampments emerged throughout the city – in parks, on trails and even on a state-owned parking lot. Local agencies struggled with how to respond, and the issue was central in Portland’s mayoral election. Throughout the year, Press Herald photographers documented people living outside, learning their names and their stories and offering readers an unblinking look at one of society’s most complex challenges.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Opinion: We need better communication about the reality of the IUD
We’re doing a terrible job of administering a really effective form of birth control.
Posted inLetters
Letter: Unmask the online commentary
The Press Herald employs a purposeful forum for the presentation and, thereafter, exchange of viewpoints within the greater Maine community: an online procedure, by which its subscribers can offer their comments, insights and suggestions with respect to published editorials, letters and commentary contained within each printed/digital edition. In an ideal world, this community forum should […]
Posted inMaine, News
Portland’s new homeless shelter in Riverside struggles to fill open beds
Though the shelter is billed as ‘low barrier,’ many people living outside see obstacles to going there, whether real or perceived.
Posted inMaine
Toy Fund volunteers deliver joy, once again
Volunteers have been vital to the mission of the Press Herald Toy Fund ever since the first holiday gift drive in 1949. It takes a lot of labor to unpack and sort thousands of toys and books, and then repackage them in age-appropriate gift bags for more than 3,000 children. Not to mention processing applications, […]