This time of year, topics of college graduations and part-time summer jobs are tossed about in the same conversations. Even the smart/lucky/well-connected grads who were hired at campus job fairs, or recruited because of an occupational specialty, are hanging around and working locally. For many, it’s a last hurrah before tossing their red beret in […]
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Parade, music roll and rock through Portland's Old Port
A stilt walker ambles down Exchange Street at the start of the Old Port Festival parade Sunday in Portland. A drummer leads the Shoestring Theater marching band down lower Exchange Street during the Old Port Festival parade Sunday in Portland. Jacquie Lee, a fifth-season contestant on national television show “The Voice,” performs classic soul songs […]
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Portland picks South Portland's Jennings for city manager
PORTLAND — Jon Jennings, the assistant city manager in South Portland, has been selected to become Portland’s next city manager. “We are pleased that Jon has accepted our offer to be Portland’s next city manager. His unique background in both government and business will serve the City well,” Mayor Michael Brennan said in an email […]
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Trio indicted for attempted murders in South Portland
SOUTH PORTLAND — Three teenagers have been indicted on attempted murder charges following a mid-March shooting and stabbing at Wainwright Recreation Complex. Zachary Swain, 19, of Cape Elizabeth, Essa Sayed, 18, of Portland, and 19-year-old Noah Sibole-Little, of Portland, were indicted by a Cumberland County grand jury earlier this month. An indictment is a finding […]
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Maine lawmakers conduct public business in private, despite open-meeting law
AUGUSTA — On Wednesday, May 28, the Legislature’s most powerful committee, the one that effectively controls the state’s $6 billion budget, was scheduled to meet in Room 228 at the Statehouse. The printed calendar posted outside the large chamber said the meeting of the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee would start at 1 p.m., but […]
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Brennan seeks re-election in Portland; Hinck backs Thibodeau for council
PORTLAND — A week after Mayor Michael Brennan announced his re-election bid the rest of the field includes a couple of maybes and some definitely nots. Brennan kicked off his re-election campaign June 3 with a press conference at Ocean Gateway Terminal, surrounded by family and supporters. “I am so proud of the work that […]
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Keys to the heart: Love locks fall in France, sound in Portland
PORTLAND — Lovers, rejoice. While the end of a famed French monument to l’amour last week made international headlines, Portland’s “love locks” fence seems secure. At least for now. On June 1, workers in Paris began to dismantle hundreds of thousands of padlocks, inscribed with lovers’ names and initials, that hung from an iron grillwork along […]
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Men turned in by Portland teen indicted for burglary
PORTLAND — An alleged burglary attempt and a phone call from a teenage girl who was hiding at home has led to indictments of two men on multiple charges. A Cumberland County grand jury on June 5 handed up indictments on charges of Class B burglary and theft, Class D criminal mischief, Class E theft, […]
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People and Business
New Hires, Promotions and Appointments Mary Allen Lindemann, co-owner of Portland-based Coffee By Design, has been named to the board of directors of Androscoggin Bank’s MainStreet Foundation. Lindemann, of Portland, founded Coffee By Design with her husband in 1994, and today the company operates four coffeehouses and a roastery in the city. The MainStreet Foundation, a […]
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Community Calendar: June 10-23
Greater Portland Benefits Saturday 6/13 “Dial ‘M’ for Mad Horse,” auction and gala to support Mad Horse Theatre Co., 6-9 p.m., $25, 24 Mosher St., South Portland, 747-4148, madhorse.com. Electronic Waste Recycling Drive, to benefit Give a Child a Chance Fund, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., First Lutheran Church, 132 Auburn St., Portland 797-2525. Tuesday 6/16 Circus […]