PORTLAND – This ain’t your grandma’s knitting circle. Unless your grandma and her pals like to sneak out late at night to yarn bomb the public art outside One City Center. Overnight Thursday, an art installation just off Temple Street was adorned in a colorful and form-fitting knit ensemble. The act is known as yarn […]
Randy Billings
Staff Writer
Randy Billings is a government watchdog and political reporter who has been the State House bureau chief since 2021. He was named the Maine Press Association’s Journalist of the Year in 2020. He joined the Press Herald in 2012 as the Portland City Hall reporter, where his beat touched on a wide range of topics, including municipal government, immigration, homelessness, housing and social services. Prior to that, he worked at various weeklies as well as business and arts publications. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine, Orono. He lives in North Yarmouth with his wife and two children and enjoys the outdoors and playing his upright bass.
Evicted lobster store’s fate up in air
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