PORTLAND — Kim Cook won the City Council District 5 seat Tuesday, defeating Marpheen Chann and Craig Dorais. Cook will replace incumbent David Brenerman, who decided not to seek a second term in the seat he won in 2014. All three candidates were making their first runs for office. Cook got 2,462 votes, while Chann and […]

PORTLAND — The City Council on Monday approved new police contracts, allocated additional funding to the School Department, and approved a master agreement for individual leases for wireless signal boosters on utility poles. But the meeting was also notable for what councilors didn’t do. They postponed until Nov. 20 votes on changes to tax increment […]

PORTLAND — Students got to show off their projects and get a peek at what businesses and colleges offer in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math at the Portland Public Schools’ annual STEM Fair. The fair, which was held Nov. 3 in the Sullivan Gym on the Portland campus of the University of Southern […]

PORTLAND — Hoping to change the lives of single mothers and their children for the better, Women United has awarded a $100,000 grant to a new program aimed specifically at women in the city’s East Bayside neighborhood. The goal of the Women In Neighborhoods program, which was created and will be overseen by The Opportunity Alliance, […]

PORTLAND — A new rotary in Morrill’s Corner? Redesigned access to the Forest Avenue-Interstate 295 interchange? Those are but two ideas under consideration after the final public meetings Nov. 1 and 2 on the Portland-South Portland Smart Corridor Plan. “These are ideas that have merit for looking at a little further,” Ned Codd, the planning and environmental lead with […]

PORTLAND — A new rotary in Morrill’s Corner? Redesigned access to the Forest Avenue-Interstate 295 interchange? Those are but two ideas under consideration after the final public meetings Nov. 1 and 2 on the Portland-South Portland Smart Corridor Plan. “These are ideas that have merit for looking at a little further,” Ned Codd, the planning and environmental lead with […]

PORTLAND — With nearly all precincts reporting, it appears that Portland voters have approved a $64.2 million bond to repair and upgrade four of the city’s elementary schools. Those schools are Longfellow, Lyseth, Presumpscot and Reiche. A second bond question asked voters whether to spend $31.6 million only on Lyseth and Presumpscot, leaving the city […]

PORTLAND — The public is invited to the first meeting on the Bramhall Square Design Competition, 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, at Peloton Labs, 795 Congress St. Bramhall Square is at the intersections of Congress Street and Cumberland and Deering avenues. The intent of the competition is to “create an identifiable public space that is well […]

PORTLAND — The public is invited to the first meeting on the Bramhall Square Design Competition, 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, at Peloton Labs, 795 Congress St. Bramhall Square is at the intersections of Congress Street and Cumberland and Deering avenues. The intent of the competition is to “create an identifiable public space that is well […]