PEAKS ISLAND — The island school could be home to a first-of-its-kind emergency energy power source. A group of people including teachers and engineers met at the school library recently to start discussing the possibility of making the school the island’s designated Red Cross emergency shelter, and powering it by solar energy in case the electric […]

PORTLAND — Live music in a day-long show is likely to return to the Eastern Promenade next August after city councilors on Monday gave the go-ahead to hammer out details with promoters. By a unanimous vote, with Councilors Jill Duson and John Coyne absent, the City Council instructed acting City Manager Sheila Hill-Christian to move […]

PORTLAND — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Oct. 16 upheld City Council approval of a conditional zone for the former Williston-West church properties at 26 and 32 Thomas St. The 6-0 decision, with Chief Justice Leigh Sauffley recusing herself, overturned a Dec. 31, 2013, Cumberland County Superior Court ruling by Justice Joyce Wheeler that […]

PORTLAND — Seeking his second term in the Maine House representing the city’s West End, Democratic Rep. Matthew Moonen said he would like to continue his prior committee work while being part of the city’s legislative delegation. “Nobody from Portland is termed out, so there is a real opportunity for the Portland team to get […]

PORTLAND — The lingering question was simple for Icelandic businesswoman Erla Petursdottir. “What do we do with fish guts?” she said Thursday Oct. 16. In Maine, the same question is asked about lobster shells. The answer may be found in the New England Ocean Cluster, an approach modeled on the Iceland Ocean Cluster that Petursdottir, […]