PORTLAND — It means belonging. It means engagement. “Just that feeling to cast your vote and say I am part of the process and can make my voice count. People don’t know how much freedom comes when you become a citizen,” Damas Rugaba said Feb. 22. Rugaba, a co-founder of the Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center, is […]

PORTLAND — Artwork by students in Portland Public Schools are among the pieces being featured in the Portland Museum of Art’s annual Youth Art Month exhibit now on display. In all, seven students from Portland had their work chosen to appear in the show, from a senior at Portland High School to a first-grader at Ocean […]

PORTLAND — The School Board is expected this week to endorse a plan that would rely on district resources and a community partner to provide universal pre-kindergarten education. The initial goal would be to add two classrooms a year over a five-year period, which would create 140 new seats, according to a plan being presented by […]

PORTLAND — Potential bidders for the estimated $12 million renovation and expansion of Harrison Lyseth Elementary School will meet March 7 for a pre-bid conference at City Hall. The request for proposals issued by the city Finance Department on Feb. 25 came two weeks after the School Department filed a site plan application for Planning Board […]

PORTLAND — Wharf and pier owners got encouraging news about funding for dredging on Feb. 21, but the waterfront zoning outlook remains murky. The 10-member Waterfront Working Group, which has been meeting every other Thursday since Jan. 3, continues to grapple with an overlay area of the Waterfront Central Zone created by city councilors in 2010. […]

PORTLAND — The city is moving toward staging its own Fourth of July celebration, officially ending a public-private partnership that existed through 2017. “We are no longer working with the Stars and Stripes Foundation,” Parks, Recreation & Facilities Director Sally DeLuca said in a Feb. 20 email. The foundation still owes the city $80,000. In a […]

PORTLAND — A reconfigured interchange at Forest Avenue and Interstate 295. More bus shelters. A new rotary on Broadway in South Portland.  All three are elements of the Portland-South Portland Smart Corridor Plan to be presented Wednesday to the City Council Sustainability & Transportation Committee. The 7-mile corridor extends from Bug Light Park in South Portland along Broadway, […]