2025 – Page 744 – The Portland Press Herald

Op-eds, Opinion

Additional parking won’t help Portland, it will harm it | Opinion

by Jeff Siegler July 31, 2025July 28, 2025

Nobody visits a place because it has great parking.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture, News, Review

This true story of CIA book smuggling reads like an Ian Fleming novel

by I.S. Berry Special to The Washington Post July 31, 2025July 31, 2025

Charlie English provides a fascinating account of how the agency smuggled Camus, Orwell and Vonnegut behind the Iron Curtain in ‘The CIA Book Club.’

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Review

Two exhibits in Wiscasset, Kittery showcase extraordinary artists now gone | Column

by JORGE S. ARANGO July 31, 2025July 31, 2025

Joseph Fiore, who died in 2008, and Baxter Koziol, who died in February, both have ongoing retrospectives at galleries in Kittery and Wiscasset.

Letters

Speed cameras could slow Maine’s reckless drivers | Letter

July 31, 2025July 30, 2025

Our state’s ‘speeding weavers’ need to know there’s a real risk of being caught.

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture

Beer and history lovers mingle at Brownstone Brews & Bites

by AMY PARADYSZ July 31, 2025July 31, 2025

Two hundred people attended an annual summer lawn party July 18 co-hosted by Allagash Brewing Co. and Victoria Mansion as a fundraiser for the 19th-century home-turned-museum on Danforth Street in Portland. “Every penny raised through this event goes right into our mission,” said Victoria Mansion Executive Director Tim Brosnihan. “And we have some major […]