PORTLAND — The Portland Public Library has picked a new executive director. Sarah Campbell, who has been a library administrator for 14 years and its associate director since April 2013, was selected by the board of trustees on March 31 following a nine-month search. She will replace Stephen Podgajny, who announced last June he would […]

PORTLAND — The silence was colorful Monday night in a two-hour City Council workshop on possible zoning changes for the Portland Co. Complex at 58 Fore St. Wearing red stickers that proclaimed “No Blank Checks,” opponents of the rezoning packed the City Hall council chambers, but neither they nor the property’s new owners spoke about […]

PORTLAND — Fiscal year 2016 municipal and school budgets will move forward in the City Council next week. On Monday, April 6, the City Council will receive the municipal budget from acting City Manager Sheila Hill-Christian, and hold a first reading on the $18.7 million capital improvements budget. The council municipal budget vote is scheduled […]

PORTLAND — The city will pay $72,000 in damages and court costs to a Mount Desert Island couple who sued after they were arrested last May while video recording police making another arrest. Jill Walker and Sabatino Scattoloni will each receive $36,000 in the settlement, reached in U.S. District Court. The deal was announced Monday […]

PORTLAND — Laboratory tests by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were unable to link a stomach illness that recently sickened 22 Reiche Elementary School students to the school lunch the children ate that day. Test results did not provide a reason why students came down with the illness on March 10. While […]

PORTLAND — In a building where deadlines were once the norm, developer Jim Brady on March 27 said workers are hustling to finish the new Press Hotel at 390 Congress St. “We are working seven days a week,” he said as he led a tour of the 110-room, seven-story hotel that was once home to […]