PORTLAND — Portland Public Library will host an exhibition of the NAMES Foundation Memorial AIDS Quilt on June 17 from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. in the library’s Atrium. The exhibit will also feature Deborah Freedman in the Rines Auditorium at noon, discussing her book “The Quiet Triumph of the Heart: NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Stories […]

PORTLAND — When Natalie DiBenedetto looked out her window on Walker Street last year, she didn’t just see a parking lot. She saw an opportunity. Now, a year later, DiBenedetto has opened a business in the once-empty lot that she believes will fill one of the city’s last foodie niches: up-scale comfort food and skillet […]

PORTLAND — City consultants are seeking public input June 11 about how to provide better bicycle and pedestrian access in two neighborhoods. Spokeswoman Carol Morris said the 6-8 p.m. event in the State of Maine room at City Hall will focus on West Commercial Street and linking Back Cove and Baxter Boulevard to the new […]

PORTLAND — Mercy Hospital announced Wednesday it will close its addiction recovery center in Westbrook and transfer services to its State Street location. The move will affect about 250 patients and 90 employees at the Westbrook clinic, which provides Suboxone treatment and counseling for patients recovering from heroin, prescription painkiller and alcohol addiction. While Mercy […]

PORTLAND — Every school district has its share of students who move in from somewhere else, whether it’s from a different town or different state. But for Casco Bay High School senior Sahra Hassan, the move to Maine was much more complicated. Hassan, 18, was born in a refugee camp in Kenya, to Somali parents. […]

PORTLAND — Preliminary plans for the new Jewish Community Center at 1342 Congress St. call for a 19,300-square-foot building to replace the former St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church. “We will have a place again,” Jewish Community Alliance interim Executive Director Ellie Miller said Tuesday, a week after the Planning Board held a workshop on the […]

PORTLAND — The second HyperHeart 5K race and walk will be Saturday, May 30, at 9 a.m. at Lyman Moore Middle School. The event, organized initially by two students, Lauren Paradise and Karina Boothe, who are now eighth-graders, is to raise awareness and money to fight hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Registration at the school at 171 Auburn […]

PORTLAND — Progress on a program to divert nonviolent drug offenders to treatment and housing instead of jail has slowed, but state funding is a possibility, Mayor Michael Brennan said May 21. Brennan was speaking at a meeting with his subcommittee on substance abuse, where Caroline Teschke, the clinical services program manager of the Portland […]