New homeowners and businesses will not be assessed – after all – to offset the strain on the city’s public schools and sewer system.
Megan Gray
Staff Writer
Megan Gray covers the outdoors and tourism at the Portland Press Herald. A Midwest native, she moved to Maine in 2016. She has written about presidential politics and local government, jury trials and jails, arts and culture. Outside of work, you can find her kayaking on the ocean and exploring Maine's many coastal islands with her husband.
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Portland rally in support of Charlottesville victims: ‘This affects everybody’
About 50 people gather Saturday evening on the Eastern Promenade in response to the day’s events in Virginia.
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Westbrook expects big impact from Maine Med’s arrival
The hospital won’t be paying any taxes, but the economic activity of 500 new workers outweighs that, officials say.
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Men have lion’s share of high-paid public jobs in Greater Portland
Among 12 communities, women fare better in education posts, but the top earners in municipal positions are mostly male.
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How the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram collected payroll data
The newspapers analyzed records from 12 Greater Portland communities.
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Four Westbrook on-call fire/police staffers quit
The resignations follow councilors’ objections to moving the division to the former fire station.
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Maine agency resettles half as many refugees as expected
For the fiscal year, Catholic Charities of Maine says it has resettled about 300 people in the past nine months because of a reduced federal cap on refugees.
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For Mr. and Mrs. Fish, it’s time for a sea change
At their wildly popular summer camp program in South Portland, Jeff and Deb Sandler have spent four decades schooling thousands of young people in the ways of the ocean and its colorful denizens.
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State’s newspapers bucking trend toward chain ownership
Reade Brower of Camden will soon hold a majority of the state’s dailies, but he’s still a local owner independent of the media giants.
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Owner of Portland Press Herald to buy Sun Journal in Lewiston
The purchase keeps that publication under local control and includes the Forecaster and Current Publishing weekly newspapers in southern and coastal Maine.