Thur. 11/12 5:30 p.m. Finance Committee CH Thur. 11/12 5 p.m. Board of Harbor Commissioners CH Thur. 11/12 7 p.m. Annual District 2 Meeting Parkside Neighborhood Center Mon. 11/16 5:30 p.m. City Council Workshop (Executive Session) CH Mon. 11/16 6 p.m. City Council Workshop CH Mon. 11/16 7 p.m. City Council Meeting CH Wed. 11/18 […]
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Portland School Notebook: Portland woman pursuing DVM
All is ‘white’ for Portland student Erika Mikulanecz of Portland received her white coat Oct. 3 at Lincoln Memorial University-College of Veterinary Medicine’s White Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2019 in Harrogate, Tennessee. Mikulanecz is a first-year veterinary medicine student who attended the University of Southern Maine prior to enrolling at LMU-CVM. The White […]
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Arts Calendar
Greater Portland Books/Authors Thursday 11/12 “How to Cook a Moose,” Kate Christensen and Genevieve Morgan, 6:30 p.m., Prince Memorial Library, 266 Main St., Cumberland. Saturday 11/20 “Christmas in Maine,” book launch, 5 to 7 p.m.,Portland Museum of Art, Seven Congress Square, 775-6148, portlandmuseum.org. Exhibits Thursday 11/19 Veterans Exhibition, Zand Head Gallery at Maine College of […]
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Calendar of Holiday Events
Craft Fairs Friday 11/13 Five Rivers Arts Festival and Sale, 14 Maine St., Brunswick, 5-8 p.m., Fri., Nov. 13; 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Sat. Nov. 14; 1-4 p.m. Sun., Nov. 15. Live music, handmade wooden bowls, scarves, glass, wall hangings, baskets, paintings, stationery, [email protected], 798-6964. Saturday 11/14 Holiday Fair, Bath United Methodist Church, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., 340 […]
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Portland Police Beat: Nov. 11
Arrests 11/1 at 12:02 a.m. Debbie Potter, 49, no address listed, was arrested on Portland Street by Officer Matthew Pavlis on a charge of violating conditions of release. 11/1 at 1:06 a.m. Brandon W. Keene, 25, of Gorham, was arrested on Fore Street by Officer Christopher Maher on charges of disorderly conduct and assault. 11/1 at 1:28 a.m. Layne […]
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People and Business
Hires, Promotions, Appointments Pejepscot Historical Society in Brunswick welcomed Larissa Vigue Picard as its new executive director. A native Mainer, Picard grew up in Pittsfield and attended Bates College. She returned to Maine and settled in Topsham in 2008. The Maine Council of Churches announced that the Rev. Jane Field has been named as its […]
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David Plumer, 73: Talented electrical engineer
PORTLAND — David Plumer, 73, died Nov. 1, at The Barron Center Nursing Home, where he had been a resident since September 2014. He was born June 15, 1942, in Massachusetts, a son of Hazel Marie Weithaas Plumer and Alexander T. Plumer. He was considered a “boy wonder” in the fields of science and technology […]
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Portland to pay $175K in suit over panhandling limits
PORTLAND — The failed 2013 ordinance to prevent panhandlers from using median strips will cost the city $175,000 in legal fees. The Nov. 4 settlement order was issued in the U.S. District Court of Maine, where the ordinance was first ruled unconstitutional for violating the First Amendment rights of plaintiffs Michael Cutting, Alison Prior, and Wells […]
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The Universal Notebook: Sick of guns, sick of intimidation
On Election Day, I signed the Maine Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense petition to once again try to close the gun-show loophole that allows anyone with a fistful of dollars to purchase a gun without a background check. Many of the other people coming out of the polling place signed, too, but I despair […]
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Intentionally Unreasonable: Do the math; Maine is broken
LAS VEGAS — I am sitting in a gaudy hotel room and everything and everyone around me feels broken. The plane I flew in on was broken and had to be replaced in Detroit, causing a four-hour delay. A taxi driver spent 10 minutes over-sharing excruciating details ranging from divorce, bankruptcy, health crisis and a long […]