PORTLAND – A special walking tour of Evergreen Cemetery, scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 11, will highlight some of the artists and authors who are buried there, including Harrison Bird Brown, George Morse and Mary King Longfellow. The event, which is free and open to the public, will start at 10:30 a.m. Attendees should meet at […]

PORTLAND — The solar farm planned atop the capped Ocean Avenue landfill can proceed now that the Maine Department of Environmental Protection has approved a revised permit for the project. “The goal is to complete the solar array before snow flies,” city Sustainability Coordinator Troy Moon said in an email Tuesday about the 660-kilowatt array, which […]

PORTLAND — With activity bustling around the International Marine Terminal, the center of attention was motionless Monday morning. Yet the $3.2 million crane serving as the backdrop for Gov. Paul LePage, Department of Transportation Commissioner David Bernhardt, EimskipUSA General Manager Larus Isfeld and DOT Deputy Commissioner Jon Nass was the star of the show about waterfront economic development. […]

PORTLAND — East End beach has reopened and the Eastern Promenade Trail has been repaired after a July 26 wastewater spill into Casco Bay. But the Portland Water District could still be fined for the incident. PWD spokeswoman Michelle Clements said the section of trail at the southern end of the plant’s retaining wall was going […]

PORTLAND — The city’s lawsuit over costs associated with opioid addiction has expanded to include retail pharmacy chains. But where the suit will be heard is in play after defendants moved to shift the case from Cumberland County Superior Court to the U.S. District Court of Northern Ohio. On July 20, Pierce Atwood attorney Joshua Dunlap, […]

PORTLAND — Two dozen students filed into a classroom at Portland High School Monday for a ukulele lesson, strumming with determined fingers as part of a program to help them acclimate to the coming school year after emigrating to the city. The students are housed at the city’s shelter for homeless families and are participating […]

PORTLAND — Parks Director Ethan Hipple said it isn’t every day someone offers to sell the city a bridge. It was too good to pass up (and it wasn’t in Brooklyn). “This a great example of different departments, a nonprofit and developers working together to make a cool project happen,” Hipple said July 26 about the 70-foot, […]

PORTLAND — Thursday’s million-gallon spill of partially treated sewage into Casco Bay was caused by closed valves at a Portland Water District treatment facility on the city’s East End. The overflow also lasted for nearly three hours, not less than an hour, as the water district originally reported. The wastewater collapsed a section of the Eastern Promenade […]