PORTLAND — The Deering Center Community Church is organizing a neighborhood clean-up 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, Sept. 22. Volunteers will be asked to pick up trash, clean sidewalks, weed and wash windows. The event includes a cookout on the church lawn. Call 773-2423 for more information.

PORTLAND — The public is invited to join city and Westbrook officials on a Sept. 30 walk and bike ride highlighting pedestrian and bicycling needs in the two cities. Hosted by the Portland Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee and Westbrook Safe Mobility and Access Committee, the event begins at 10 a.m. at the Breakwater School near the intersection of […]

PORTLAND — After two workshops with the Historic Preservation Board, a developer hoping to build new housing on Munjoy Hill is optimistic his plans will be approved. “We are engaging in this because we hope the collaboration will yield a better project,” Tim Wells said Sept. 7, two days after a second alternative design review […]

PORTLAND — A single-family home in the Rosemont section of the city could be redesignated as a place of religious assembly. Chabad of Maine, part of an Orthodox Jewish, Hasidic movement known for its outreach, is based at 11 Pomeroy St. For nearly a year, it has considered seeking the conditional use change in its neighborhood. The […]

PORTLAND — The committee tasked with exploring where a new service center  may be established for the city’s homeless population is not expected to make a recommendation until Sept. 25. But after a 2 1/2-hour community forum Sept. 8 at the University of Southern Maine, the city’s plan to build a 200-bed shelter on Brighton […]

PORTLAND — With the help of a fellowship at Peaks Island Elementary School, students will learn how to become better stewards of not just their own island community, but the planet as a whole. There will also be a renewed focus on ways to live more sustainability, and making intergenerational connections with the island’s older residents, […]

PORTLAND — Even in this digital age, the library at King Middle School is still one of the most important, most visited and best-loved places in the building, according to Principal Caitlin LeClair. The school library is a “communal space where students have access to books and other research materials,” LeClair said. “Our librarian, Kathy Hanley, […]

PORTLAND — Eastern Cemetery is celebrating its 350th anniversary with stone-carving demonstrations from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15. Visitors are welcome to view demonstrations by Matt Barnes of Yankee Slate Cutting, and tour the cemetery and learn more about its history and burial customs through the ages.