2025 – Page 727 – The Portland Press Herald

Arts & Entertainment, Maine

Portland’s Back Cove music festival hits the right note on inaugural weekend

by Grace Benninghoff and Sophie Burchell August 3, 2025August 4, 2025

The festival drew about 12,000 people on its first day Saturday and neighbors said traffic was better than expected.

Editorials, Opinion

Back to school is riddled with uncertainty | Editorial

by The Editorial Board August 3, 2025August 1, 2025

On the subject of life without a federal Department of Education, we have more questions than we have answers. Let’s remember that in the coming weeks.

Maine, News

Maine cities are promoting native plants. Here’s how you can too.

by Emily Duggan August 3, 2025August 3, 2025

Experts say native plants support local ecosystems in a variety of ways that non-native plants don’t.

Business, Maine, News

Is Maine experiencing a ‘wedding gap’?: Less tradition, lower budget

by Christopher Wheelock August 3, 2025August 2, 2025

How the wedding industry is changing and what it means for couples, their families, and people who earn a living from weddings.

Letters

Darcie McElwee’s rise is payback for loyalty | Letter

August 3, 2025July 31, 2025

Justice Darcie McElwee’s rise to power says everything about how corrupt this state has become under Gov. Janet Mills. McElwee was terminated by one administration and immediately embraced by another — not because she fought for justice, but because she didn’t. As District of Maine’s chief federal law enforcement officer, she never exposed the failures […]

Letters

Further questions on health care for undocumented workers | Letter

August 3, 2025July 31, 2025

This is in response to the op-ed by Dr. Jeffrey Barkin in the July 20 edition (“Deny undocumented workers health care and Maine suffers“). First, I think the doctor is disguising self-interest with altruism. The doctor has an economic interest in the federal government covering illegal immigrants for health care services. This is not a […]