Season-openers continue to dominate southern Maine’s performing arts calendar this week. Tops in my opinion is Good Theater’s stunning, riveting Maine premiere of “Admissions,” Joshua Harmon’s play that highlights the hypocrisies and contradictions involved in the racial preferences used to admit students at elite colleges. The Portland Symphony Orchestra opens its 2019-2020 Pops! season this […]
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Curran looks to serve city in a whole new way
Curbing unhosted Airbnb properties, improving transportation, easing traffic congestion and introducing a local option sales tax among Curran’s campaign objectives.
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City looks to be first in state to ban plastic straws
Straws would be available by request only from April 2020 to January 2021, when the ban takes full effect
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Portland joins regional effort to increase affordable housing 10% by 2025.
Residents, however, argue more needs to be done to increase affordable housing in the city and area.
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Portland schools to borrow $2 million for capital projects
PORTLAND — The School Board has authorized borrowing just over $2 million from the state to cover the cost of capital projects that have been on the district’s to-do list for nearly three years. The money, if it’s ultimately approved by the state, would come from the School Revolving Renovation Fund that’s administered by the […]
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Casco Bay Lines opts not to change ferry schedules – yet
A proposal to change the Peaks Island ferry schedule has failed and decision to change ferry schedules to other islands delayed until later this month.
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Freeze frame: students taking snapshots of life at Casco Bay High
The high school in Portland has turned to student photographers to tell its story.
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Art exchange program bridges gap between U.S. and Japan
Artists from the Portland area will travel to Japan this month for the first time to launch the latest Maine-Aomori Printmaking Society exhibition.
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Greater Portland Landmarks announces 2019 Places in Peril
Fire stations, two USM buildings and historic coastal structures make the list, but not without some pushback.
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Harvest Fest caps off Peaks Island museum project
The Fifth Maine Museum is now focusing on interior projects.