PORTLAND — Participants will be able to slide it, shoot it, sculpt it or search for it at the first-ever Portland Winterfest beginning Friday, Jan. 23. Organized by Portland’s Downtown District, the festival opens with the Winterfest Rail Jam from 5-7 p.m. on Spring Street between Center and Union streets. Snowboarders sponsored by Long’s Board […]
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Portland schools to provide budget forum
PORTLAND — The Portland Public Schools will host a town hall-style meeting on the fiscal year 2016 budget on Thursday, Jan. 29, at 6:30 p.m. in the Lyman Moore Middle School library. The meeting is an opportunity for the public to offer input and feedback on budgeting priorities for the 2015-2016 school year. The district […]
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Portland Tenants Union to meet next week
PORTLAND — The Portland Tenants Union will meet for the second time on Thursday, Jan. 29, at 6 p.m. in Room 24 at City Hall, according to co-founder Grace Damon. Damon and Catherine Wilson, whose son lived at 20 Noyes St. but was not at home during a fatal fire Nov. 1, 2014, founded the […]
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The Right View: The best things in life are not free
Despite the raging pain in my back from a herniated disk, reading support for President Obama’s plan for offering students “free” community college was enough to spring me out of bed and put me in front of my computer for a significant rant. I am so sick and tired of hearing about all of the […]
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Superintendent's Notebook: Showing Portland its ROI on student achievement
This is the time of year when Maine school districts begin the school budget process, asking our communities to show their support for public education by investing in it. But when they back our public schools, how do community members know what ROI – return on investment – they’re getting? The Portland Public Schools is […]
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Letter: Diaz column never fails to inspire
Abby’s Road is often the first page I turn to in The Forecaster. Abby Diaz speaks plainly, with thoughtfulness about topics that I find relevant to life, often wrapped in humor. “The Colors of Friendship” was no exception. Thank you, Abby, for sharing the things you have learned about friendship in life. May your cupboards […]
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Portland police: Same robbers hit 2 banks within 15 minutes
PORTLAND — Police said the same people robbed two branches of KeyBank within 15 minutes Friday morning. The pair, wearing masks, entered the KeyBank at 400 Forest Ave. at 11:05 a.m. and demanded cash from tellers. They fled on foot toward Fessenden Street, according to a Police Department press release. At 11:20 a.m. the same […]
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Scarborough-based agency creates Maine Senior Games Hall of Fame
SCARBOROUGH — As a way to laud exemplary senior athletes who have competed in both the state and national Senior Games, the Southern Maine Agency on Aging has recently formed a Maine Senior Games Hall of Fame. Nearly 30 years old, the Maine Senior Games are held in the summer (June-September), eligible to anyone older than […]
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Portland developer eyes former Bath school for rental housing
BATH — The next use of the John E.L. Huse Memorial School – which was occupied by the Regional School Unit 1 central office until 2010 – could be mixed-income rental housing. While the City Council voted last April to sell the 39 Andrews Road building for senior assisted living, that deal fell through, and the property is […]
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Portland artist goes digital in Yarmouth library's debut exhibit
YARMOUTH — At first glance, Clyde McCulley’s artistic renderings of scenes from the Portland area look like real paintings. Looking closer, one can see that the images displayed on thin metal sheets are actually made using a computer. McCulley, who used to be a painter as well as an art professor, is now a photographer. After […]