There’s plenty of music scheduled over the next wintry week in Portland. Portland Symphony Orchestra continues its three-year series of Ludwig van Beethoven’s nine symphonies on Sunday and Tuesday, performing No. 3, subtitled “Heroic.” If Valentine’s Day has you in a romantic mood, you might try an interesting take on that basic theme when violinist […]
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The Universal Notebook: 'The will to win is the only thing'
Legendary Green Bay Packers football coach Vince Lombardi is everywhere quoted incorrectly as having uttered the immortal words, “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” Actually, those word were originally spoken by UCLA Bruins football coach Red Sanders. Lombardi was only repeating Sanders’ motto, but he maintained he was misquoted. What Lombardi insisted he actually […]
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Capitol Notebook: Lessons from a senator’s life
Legislators, mental health advocates and his many friends gathered last weekend to celebrate the life of Joe Brannigan, a long-serving legislator from Portland who also built Shalom House, a network of housing for the mentally ill. A Topsham native and U.S. Navy veteran, Joe gave up his early career as a Catholic priest to pursue […]
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Policy Wonk: Statewide jails need a chance to succeed
Maine has a statewide court system, a statewide Public Utilities Commission, Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Transportation. We attempt to equalize educational opportunity by distributing school aid statewide. We have a statewide university system. Why? Because in all of these areas (and more) we realize that a statewide approach saves taxpayer money and […]
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Abby's Road: Not drowning is a major accomplishment
When a person’s performance is characterized as treading water, it’s not meant as a compliment. To be treading water suggests a lack of motivation or capacity for forward progress. It implies stagnation, maybe even laziness. We learn to crawl so that we can learn to walk, and then run. We start on the junior varsity […]
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Portland forum provides peek at Hall School plans
PORTLAND — About 30 people, mostly members of the Hall School Building Committee, gathered in the Fred P. Hall Elementary School for the first community forum on replacement of the school. Construction of the school is expected to begin in May 2017, with the opening proposed for September 2018. The Feb. 4 forum was originally […]
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Bath council mulls Portland developer's $150K bid for Huse School
BATH — A Portland-based developer on Wednesday formally proposed purchasing the John E.L. Huse Memorial School for $150,000, or $25,000 less than the city has been asking. The Szanton Co., which presented its plan to the community at a Jan. 15 meeting, wants to convert the 39 Andrews Road building to mixed-income rental housing. The […]
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Cape Elizabeth resort the setting when Time Warner tries to influence legislators
HALLOWELL — Fed up with slow Internet speeds offered by commercial services, some Maine cities and towns are turning to a new way to get high-speed broadband for their residents and businesses: doing it themselves. Maine ranks near the bottom of all 50 states in Internet speeds, which frustrates consumers and also puts a damper […]
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Portland parking meter revenue off 45% thanks to snow
PORTLAND — Digging out from a week of storms has been costly for the city on two fronts. City Hall spokeswoman Jessica Grondin on Monday said the cost of storm cleanups has already consumed 60 percent of the $1.1 million allocated in the city budget. That was before Monday’s storm, which dropped another 9 inches […]
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Portland hearing, vote on Midtown project delayed at developer's request
PORTLAND — What was supposed to be the final Planning Board public hearing and vote on the proposed 3.5-acre Midtown housing and retail project was postponed Tuesday. City Hall spokeswoman Jessica Grondin said the hearing and possible vote have been rescheduled for March 3. Planning Board Chairman Stuart O’Brien said Tuesday the postponement request came […]