PORTLAND — It is raw, pungent and nurturing. And the future of solid waste collection in greater Portland is also award-winning. Last month, two composting companies were recognized by Portland Buy Local. We Compost It! was named the group’s Environmental Hero, and Garbage to Garden won an Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind award. Both […]
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Holidays off to a slow start for Salvation Army in Portland
PORTLAND — The holiday season is already proving more challenging than usual for the Salvation Army. Maj. Annette Lock said the number of donations the organization has received this year, and overall donor commitment towards the annual Thanksgiving food collection, is down from years past. The organization will be providing Thanksgiving baskets to just 100 families […]
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Portland panel sticks to Hall School plan as cost rises
PORTLAND — The committee tasked with overseeing reconstruction of the aging Fred P. Hall Elementary School is sticking to its original access plan. Replacing the aging school at 23 Orono Road is now expected to cost up to $28 million, or $8 million more than originally planned. The Hall School Building Committee originally recommended a […]
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Dishin’ That: Make this a Thanksgiving to remember, for the right reasons
Although a man about town, the big, unkempt guy had a homeless-base close to the dumpster behind Portland’s Asylum on Center Street. Lucid enough to say hello and have brief, but cordial conversations, he usually chose not to. For years, regardless of the time of day, I saw him there three or four times a […]
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Art Calendar: Nov. 25-Dec. 12
Greater Portland Exhibits “Local Color: Pieces of Maine,” paintings by Dawn Maron, Mike Maron and Suzanne Woodward, Lifeworks Chiropractic Center, 202 US Rt 1, Suite 100, Falmouth, artists’ reception 5:30-7:30 p.m., Dec. 4 to April 29. “East Meets Weston” photography by Bruce Barlow, Freeport Community Library, 10 Library Dr., through December, freeportlibrary.com, 865-3307. Film “Peggy Guggenheim […]
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Intentionally Unreasonable: Guns, words, and Edgar Allen Beem
On my first day as a newspaper columnist, I was given a piece of advice from a wise editor friend of mine: Never read the anonymous comments that follow most online columns because they’re most often written by trolls, sad people, folks with their own agenda, folks who are sad trolls, and an entire universe […]
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Portland nonprofit sees family value in individual sobriety
PORTLAND — Julia Whyel recalled her first holiday gathering with her family after she became sober in 2011. “My family is in Seattle,” Whyel, 33, said Nov. 19 over coffee at Hilltop Coffee on Munjoy Hill. “For me, it was just such a relief that I could be who I wanted to be for my […]
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Benjamin Alfiero, 59: Co-owner of Harbor Fish Market
PORTLAND — Benjamin A. Alfiero, 59, of Scarborough, a well-known Portland waterfront business owner, died Nov. 16, in Portland. Alfiero was born Dec. 2, 1955, in Portland, one of three sons born to Benjamin Louis and Gloria (Adrigeri) Alfiero. He attended Portland schools, including Oakdale kindergarten, Nathan Clifford Elementary, King Junior and Portland High School. Alfiero […]
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Portland Meetings: Nov. 25 to Dec. 3
Portland Wed. 11/25 8 a.m. Metro Board of Directors 114 Valley St. Wed. 12/2 5 p.m. Historic Preservation Board CH Wed. 12/2 10 a.m. Portland Disability Advisory Committee CH Thur. 12/3 5 p.m. Parks Commission CH
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People and Business: Nov. 25
Recognition Eileen Skinner, president and CEO of Mercy Health System of Maine, will be honored at the 19th Annual Women of Distinction Gala Dec. 3 at the Portland Marriott at Sable Oaks in South Portland. The Gala is an annual event sponsored by the Girl Scouts of Maine to celebrate women whose high level of […]