The tools necessary to explore the outdoors are expensive and can be hard to find. The Maine Gear Library Network aims to help.
2025
Incompetent Hegseth needs to go | Letter
I thank both Sen. Susan Collins and Sen. Angus King for opposing Pete Hesgeth’s appointment as secretary of defense last January. Back then, it was painfully clear that Mr. Hegseth was a man without understanding or competence, and since his appointment, he has proven this many times over — with his mishandling of sensitive information […]
Enraged by Trump’s comments on Somali immigrants | Letter
I was incensed to see President Trump refer to our Somali-Americans, and the country they come from, as “garbage.” He uses language in a demeaning and hateful way. It is shameful to have the president of our country use infantile speech in such a hateful and disgusting way. When I served as mayor of Lewiston, I […]
South Portland’s Long Creek Trail will soon be more accessible
The land trust received a $139,000 grant to give the trail a makeover.
30-story tower will be Portland’s next architectural regret | Column
Feeling blindsided? Although plans for the city’s tallest building were approved Tuesday, the real decision-making took place during last year’s zoning overhaul.
2025 Southern Maine Athletes of the Week: Winter Week 1
Press Herald sports writers nominate high school athletes from the prior week’s games.
Readers vote for their top choice and the winner will be announced in the newspapers the following Sunday all season long!
Portland punches above its weight for the homeless | Mayor Mark Dion
Why won’t other bodies step up and help the city in this work?
Health insurance companies should pay a price for abandoning Maine | Opinion
If a company chooses profits over people in our state, it should be barred from returning for 20 years.
Think big; support 30-story building in Portland | Letter
Our beloved city has everything we want and need, but it lacks a distinctive skyline. The spire on the Cathedral on Franklin Street is the only memorable view that welcomes drivers heading south on I-295. Let us think big — not small — in housing, in economic activity and in design. Portland’s skyline deserves to be […]
As NOAA funding lags, a critical ocean weather system nears a breaking point
Officials warn that if regional Integrated Ocean Observing System readings go dark, coastal forecasts will become less precise, endangering commercial fishermen, cargo ships and coastal communities.