PORTLAND — There will be ice skating on the pond at Deering Oaks Park this winter after all. City Hall spokeswoman Jessica Grondin said the pond was being refilled after contractors completed work ahead of schedule on replacing sections of the pond bottom. Grondin said good weather allowed for completion of work city officials had expected to […]
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Portland Water District budget includes 3.8% rate hike
PORTLAND — Customers could see a 3.7 percent increase in water rates as a result of the 2016 Portland Water District operating budget of $40.5 million. “Much of the increase is related to infrastructure maintenance and improvements, including water main replacement,” PWD spokeswoman Michelle Clements said in a Dec. 10 press release. The operating budget presents […]
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Proposals for former Portland school continue to disappoint neighbors
PORTLAND — The Reed School Reuse Advisory Task Force, which met last week for the first time since June, will reconvene at least once more at the request of City Manager Jon Jennings. The panel is charged with coming up with recommendations for the reuse of the vacant Thomas B. Reed School at 28 Homestead […]
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Portland teacher free on bail, placed on leave, after child porn arrest
PORTLAND — A Portland High School teacher was released on bail after being arrested last week for allegedly possessing child pornography. Gerald White, 44, was arrested Dec. 16 at the 284 Cumberland Ave. school, according to spokesman Steve McCausland of the Maine Department of Public Safety. McCausland said Maine State Police seized White’s computer the day […]
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Portland students start the march to college
Led by kindergartners from Reiche Elementary School, 93 seniors from Casco Bay High School parade down Congress Street from the Portland Museum of Art to the downtown post office on Friday, Dec. 18, to mail college applications. The afternoon event was the school’s third annual “March to the Post Office” to celebrate every senior completing […]
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Community Calendar: Dec. 23-Jan. 10
Greater Portland Benefits Thursday 12/31 Polar Bear Plunge and 5K, East End Beach, Portland, benefit Natural Resources Council of Maine, register online at nrcm.kintera.org/dipdash. Bulletin Board Saturday 12/26 State Sen. Stan Gerzofsky, office hours, 10 a.m. to noon, Bow Street Market, Freeport. Open to all from Brunswick, Freeport, Harpswell, North Yarmouth and Pownal who have […]
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The Universal Notebook: Season’s greetings!
Season’s greetings! Be of good cheer!Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year!Have a blessed Bodhi Day, a joyous Mawlid al-Nabi,Have fun at Festivus and a great Pancha Ganapati! Together we’ve weathered two thousand fifteen –The most hotly contested year that we’ve seen.Between climate change and the GOPAmerica heated up to the nth degree. Here in […]
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Capitol Notebook: Maine's political battles don’t break for the holidays
The Christmas spirit has not yet arrived in Augusta. In one day last week, the major problems of the LePage administration burst onto the headlines again as another federal agency sharply criticized the performance of the Department of Health and Human Services. And also last Monday, Gov. Paul LePage sounded a surprising retreat in his […]
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The Right View: Silence deafening about plight of Middle East Christians
Compared with all of the talk of whether to continue to admit Muslim refugees and asylum seekers into the United States, another important aspect of the Middle East inferno is getting relatively less attention. Christians are quite literally being exterminated in the Middle East, and I can find very little evidence that our president really […]
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Intentionally Unreasonable: A new hallmark for holiday happiness
Most people I know love this time of year. My wife Katie is one of those people. Katie’s holiday celebration trifecta starts in mid-October, when Halloween decorations start appearing all over the house, inside and out, followed by multiple family pumpkin carving events and then a massive candy procurement program – publicly disapproved by the […]