PORTLAND — The School Board voted 9-0 Tuesday to support a nearly $61 million bond that would fund substantial improvements at four of the city’s elementary schools. The measure now goes to the City Council for further review. Known as the Buildings for Our Future plan, the spending would be applied to Longfellow, Lyseth, Presumpscot […]

PORTLAND — The Maine Attorney General’s Office has concluded its review of emails regarding short-term rentals sent to city councilors. “We have reviewed the emails, and we have concluded that there is no basis for a criminal investigation at this time,” Mills’ spokesman Timothy Feeley said Wednesday. Attorney General Janet Mills had been asked by Mayor […]

PORTLAND — Portland Community Squash is in its new home at 66 Noyes St. in the Oakdale neighborhood. “There is a long way to go, but so much to celebrate,” President Barrett Takesian said Jan. 25. The nonprofit, which offers youth instruction, leagues and court space for adult play, moved from the Portland YMCA on Forest Avenue to the […]

PORTLAND — Salli Wason is serious about ice cream. So serious that she has launched a business, Rosanna’s Ice Cream, where she delivers pints of homemade, small-batch ice cream or ice cream cakes at the receipt of a text message. Wason will deliver any one of the ice cream flavors she has available within 15 minutes to […]

PORTLAND — The First Friday Art Walk on Feb. 3 will provide the public’s first look at changes in the Portland Museum of Art. The 7 Congress Square museum will celebrate its reopening at 6 p.m. with “Lights Across Congress,” which a museum press release called “a massive, 130-foot-wide cinematic projection on the museum’s facade.” Following […]

PORTLAND — The city will celebrate Navy Week Aug. 21-27. The celebration was announced Jan. 25 in a press release from the Navy Office of Community Outreach. It coincides with the Great State of Maine Blue Angels Air Show in Brunswick, and will feature a variety of activities, events and demonstrations. Portland is among 15 cities to […]

PORTLAND — The 17 adults charged after a July 2016 protest in support of Black Lives Matter avoided any jail time in a plea agreement reached Jan. 26. The Cumberland County district attorney’s office said the protesters pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, a civil charge, and received unconditional discharge. As part of the agreement, each […]

PORTLAND — A decision on the “graffiti wall” along East End Trail is not expected until the end of February. Public support for allowing artists to continue to use the Portland Water District retaining wall as an ever-changing medium was strong in an hour-long Jan. 25 meeting of some PWD Trustees. “It is one of my favorite […]