Health experts say Maine Family Planning’s clinics were northern Maine’s safest option for transgender patients.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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What will Portland do about Live Nation’s proposed venue downtown?
One proposal announced Friday would block the developers of the Portland Music Hall from building on their chosen site.
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Greely Middle School in Cumberland reports pertussis outbreak with 3 cases
Overall cases of the bacterial infection, also called whooping cough, have declined this year compared to 2024, according to the Maine CDC.
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Gardens Aglow, a bright spot in Maine winter, returns with new displays and tech
Now in its 11th year, the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ signature holiday light show has a new emphasis on education — alongside its usual beauty.
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Maine expands recall of cannabis vape cartridges
Last month’s recall of a strain of a Yani product sold at 21 stores has been expanded by the state’s Office of Cannabis Policy to include three more strains and five more stores.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Maine
Meet the Maine cinematographer behind ‘Wicked: For Good,’ opening this week
Alice Brooks, who lives in Portland with her family, spent more than a year in England working on both ‘Wicked’ films.
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Will new health fund help Maine’s rural hospitals stay open? Experts say it’s unclear
Upcoming Medicaid cuts from the Republican budget bill passed over the summer threaten the financial health of rural hospitals.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, Times Record
‘Re|Sounding’ exhibition in Bath highlights Indigenous, Black histories
Maine Maritime Museum is giving voice to the Indigenous and Black communities in an upcoming living exhibition connecting history with the present.
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AI exposes architecture’s Achilles’ heel | Column
Good architecture is about accommodating commonplace movements and functions of the human body. Too few buildings clear that bar.
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Read ‘Flow into Girl,’ a poem by Lukcia Patricia Sullivan
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.