The Select Board previously shot down requests from Shady Oaks Mobile Home Park tenants who sought a moratorium on rent increases they say they can’t afford, mirroring a pattern across Maine.
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As ICE keeps people home, leaders in Maine brace for evictions
During a roundtable with several mayors, Gov. Janet Mills also said she is pressing the Trump administration to provide details on whom ICE has arrested and why.
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South Portland dog park and restaurant opening soon
The Barkery Dog Bar plans to launch Feb. 5 in the Mill Creek Shopping Center.
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30-unit affordable housing project on Portland’s Munjoy Hill puts city, neighbor at odds
A Cumberland County Superior Court judge is reviewing whether the city’s Historic Preservation Board incorrectly approved the four-story building in 2024.
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The bones of a jinxed ghost ship remain in Georgetown | Column
For 20 years, the Mary F. Barrett sailed to ports all along the Eastern Seaboard and landed at foreign ports before tragedy struck in Portland Harbor in 1921.
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Lewiston-based Farmers’ Almanac coming back under new ownership
The 208-year-old almanac is being revived by a New York media company.
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Koi Asian Cuisine closes in Biddeford
The Elm Street restaurant had been open for nearly 15 years.
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A&C Soda Shop in South Portland rebrands to Rattle Shake Grill
The Cottage Road restaurant changed its name after a founding owner left the business.
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A pastor searched for a missing congregant. He found a car with the keys on the floor
Evaristo Kalonji, an asylum seeker from Angola who has no criminal record, vanished from South Portland. He turned up in one detention center, then another.
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Could ICE be barred from non-public areas in Maine?
The Legislature’s Judiciary Committee is hearing testimony Thursday on Rep. Ellie Sato’s bill to block federal agents from certain places.