PORTLAND — Police are asking for help finding a 14-year-old Deering High School student missing since Jan. 27. Hilda Vanessa Sanaguaray-Upaya, whose address was not released, ran away from family members around 8 a.m. in the area of the Northgate Shopping Center at 91 Auburn St., according to Police Lt. Robert Martin. Sanaguaray-Upaya is 5 feet 1 […]
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Woman sues University of Southern Maine over Gorham sex assaults
GORHAM — A former University of Southern Maine student claims she was sexually assaulted twice in USM dormitories six years ago. Although she says she reported both assaults to campus police, she claims the university didn’t investigate as required by law. The woman, now 25, filed a lawsuit Jan. 15 in U.S. District Court in […]
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Woman sues University of Southern Maine over Gorham sex assaults
GORHAM — A former University of Southern Maine student claims she was sexually assaulted twice in USM dormitories six years ago. Although she says she reported both assaults to campus police, she claims the university didn’t investigate as required by law. The woman, now 25, filed a lawsuit Jan. 15 in U.S. District Court in […]
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Portland councilor's inclusion on school building panel stirs opposition
PORTLAND — Over the objections of the grassroots group that promoted passage of a $64 million bond to fix four of the city’s elementary schools, City Councilor Belinda Ray was named to the project’s Advisory Building Committee. In a 5-2 vote Jan. 16, with members Marnie Morrione and Holly Seeliger absent, the School Board supported the […]
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Lawmakers, Portland cop shepherd first-aid bill for police dogs
PORTLAND — Michelle Cole’s partner in the Police Department may be retiring in the next few weeks, but she’ll still be able to give him commands. Cole, a Casco resident, has worked and lived with her 8-year-old German shepherd partner Kaine since he joined the department as a young pup. She is now working with […]
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Portland short-term rental registrations surge in January
PORTLAND — Registration fees from short-term housing rentals generated more than $77,500 in revenue for the city through Jan. 16. The fees from the registration of 394 units available to be rented for fewer than 30 days at a time are spread across 293 properties, according to data from a Jan. 24 meeting of the City Council […]
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School lunch debt a problem for Portland students, schools
PORTLAND — Even though more than half of students in the Portland Public Schools qualify for a free or reduced-cost lunch, the schools are still carrying a significant load when it comes to unpaid school meal debt. The School Department is facing a $6,000 shortfall and at the end of the past fiscal year last June, […]
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Wear Red Day: 15 years of heart-disease awareness for Maine women
PORTLAND — City resident Martha Doughty said she spent most of her married life more concerned about her husband’s heart health than her own. That all changed last summer when Doughty, 56, drove herself to the hospital concerned that she may be having a heart attack. Doughty now has a stent after doctors discovered one of […]
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Initial report finds Portland may not be as noisy as you think
PORTLAND — City staff and councilors have not heard the last of a report on local noise levels, but preliminary results show Portland is not unique. “The sound levels we measured during this study are typical of urban and suburban communities,” Ethan R. Brush of Acentech said in a Dec. 1, 2017, letter to Kevin Schneck, technical director […]
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Standing, telling: Maine College of Art, Abysinnian Meeting House record African-American history
PORTLAND — The words are on the walls at Maine College of Art. But hearing them means more, according to Pamela Cummings. “You can hear the voices cracking, the laughs, the emotions,” Cummings said about oral histories from the city’s African-American community, presented at MECA as “Still Standing: The Abyssinian Meeting House Story Archive.” The exhibit, open […]