PORTLAND — Preble Street Extension will be closed entirely from Marginal Way to Baxter Boulevard, beginning 9 p.m. Friday, April 5, through 9 p.m. Sunday, April 7. City Hall spokeswoman Jessica Grondin said the closing will allow contractors to dig a manhole and install a pipe near the intersection of Marginal Way and Preble Street Extension […]
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Applicants needed for 7 Portland committees
PORTLAND — The city is looking to fill 14 vacancies across seven committees, spokeswoman Jessica Grondin announced Monday. The deadline is April 15 to apply for one seat as a fair hearing officer, the seats on the Community Development Block Grant Allocation Committee, two seats on the Land Bank Commission, and three seats on the Portland Housing Authority. […]
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Pier pressure: Portland owners resist zoning changes
PORTLAND — Pier owners who are members of the city’s Waterfront Working Group said they will resist elimination of an overlay area that helps sustain them by allowing non-marine businesses on the piers. Charlie Poole, Steve DiMillo and Mike Alfiero have been members of the WWG since it formed last December. They said they support the […]
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Portland panel denies Waynflete School pesticide waiver
PORTLAND — Waynflete School was the city’s first applicant for a waiver to use prohibited pesticides, and the first to be denied. The school’s application was denied March 21 by the city’s new Pesticide Management Advisory Committee. “We are going to do what we need to do to find expertise to make the shift to organic, […]
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Waterfront TIF could help fund Portland harbor dredging
PORTLAND — A pool of city tax increment finance money could go straight into the harbor. Members of the Waterfront Working Group on March 21 gave the highest priority to spending as much as $600,000 of TIF revenues on continued efforts to dredge Portland harbor. The money, which is set aside as increases in tax valuations […]
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Portland students win Maine model wind turbine competition
PORTLAND — Relying on teamwork, along with elements of physics and engineering, students from five Maine school districts built model wind turbines and tested them against each other for the right to attend the national KidWind Challenge in Houston in late May. Coming out on top were two teams of eighth-graders from King Middle School in […]
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Portland nonprofit confident yoga can change lives
PORTLAND — While studies have shown yoga can help increase both physical and emotional well being, Diana Lee believes it can do even more for at-risk populations. Lee, founder of Sea Change Yoga, said specific yoga and meditation practices can be used to help people in recovery from substance use disorder, can decrease recidivism rates for those […]
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Portland seeks interesting, but not distracting, art for roundabout near USM
PORTLAND — A new public art display will come to the city in a roundabout fashion. The shape it may take will be discussed by the USM Public Artwork Selection Committee at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in Room 423 of the Glickman Library at the University of South Maine, 514 Forest Ave. The meeting follows a […]
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Maine Flower Show runs through weekend
PORTLAND — The annual Maine Flower Show will be held at Thompson’s Point Thursday, March 28, through Sunday, March 31. Tickets are $22 for adults, $17 for seniors, and free for children 12 and under. Purchase tickets online at www.maineflowershow.com or at the door. Military veterans and their spouses can get discounted tickets, $12 each, on March 29. The […]
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South Portland skate park panel zeroes in on 3 sites
PORTLAND — Members of the city’s ad hoc Skate Park Advisory Committee say they have not locked wheels on a site as they prepare to roll into City Hall on March 26. But they do have three front-runners. “We have been impartial, considering all best possible locations, doing due diligence, and trying our best to think of […]