Everything from housing and industry booms to fewer job-seekers and the state’s status as the oldest in the nation has contributed to a run of low jobless rates, experts say.
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Mom charged in 3-year-old’s death in Milford says she left child in car to retrieve trash, then fell into river
Kelly Brown, of Havertown, Pennsylvania, has been charged with manslaughter and is being held on $50,000 bail after police found her toddler and dog dead inside her vehicle at a gas station in a small town north of Bangor.
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Let Live Nation look beyond Portland | Letter
If one googles “Isn’t Live Nation involved in multiple litigations,” one will be struck by the number of legal proceedings Live Nation is defending. There are also countless artist complaints outstanding. And Live Nation recently settled a class-action suit for $20 million dollars. A corporation whose promises you can rely on doesn’t pay out that […]
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Anonymous $1M donation will support arts and music in Portland schools
The biggest one-time gift in the history of the Foundation for Portland Public Schools will be used in part for a new program to bring local arts organizations into classrooms.
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Graves Library in Kennebunkport will host talented musicians and award-winning novelist
Beau Dalleo, a professional guitarist, will play familiar songs on Thursday, Aug. 14, at 6 p.m. at Graves Memorial Library in Kennebunkport. Patrons are invited to bring friends and chairs to the show and celebrate summer, the community and a fondness for talented local artists. Suggested donations of $10 per person are appreciated. If it […]
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Is Live Nation going to revive Portland? | Letter
Thanks and kudos to the Press Herald for the Live Nation music venue coverage. The debate presents hard trade-offs. Mostly missing from the coverage (and the heated debates) is what should most drive City Council’s decision making: What will help revive downtown Portland? When I moved to Maine 14 years ago, Congress Street and downtown […]
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Limitless Wrestling puts on a show in Lewiston
Vacationland Cup 2025 was held Saturday night at a jam-packed Colisee. Staff photos by Russ Dillingham
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AOL dial-up got America online in the ’90s. It’s ending next month.
The landline-based service once played a dominant role in culture, exposing tens of millions to the internet and inspiring a movie starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
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Westbrook Notes: Rotary Club collecting school supplies
Rotarians to meet, collect school supplies Westbrook-Gorham Rotary will meet for lunch at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 19, in the dining room at Westbrook Regional Vocational Center, 125 Stroudwater St., Westbrook. “We will welcome back Neillie Young. She is a Marshwood High School Interact student who led a school project in Peru that our […]
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Maine State Library not victimized as suggested | Letter
In response to the column by Douglas Rooks titled “Trump’s goal of an ignorant electorate is coming together in textbook fashion,” published Aug. 7, I appreciate that the author recognizes and values the strong services, access to information and professional staff at the Maine State Library (MSL). The original column, however, contained several factual errors […]