PORTLAND — Organizers say the new Portland Food Council is a holistic way for the city’s food community to connect and make sure that people have access to enough good food and that food isn’t wasted, while also focusing on sustainability. The council will hold an official launch party 4-7 p.m. Jan. 30, at Fork […]
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Portland high schools headed toward Chromebooks
PORTLAND — Google Chromebook computers are known for combining a traditional laptop with web-based storage, at a price below most tablets. That’s why the Portland Public Schools is likely to outfit high school students with Chromebooks this fall. But first the cost must be included in the new fiscal year budget. The Chromebooks would represent a one-time […]
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Girls Hockey: Stags down Rams 6-2
GORHAM – A pair of goals by Gorham/Bonny Eagle freshmen Celia Begonia and Anna Nault weren’t enough, not by a longshot, to dispatch visiting Cheverus/Kennebunk/Old Orchard Beach on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 21. Half a dozen different Stags – among them Victoria Lemieux and Abby Enck – hashed a point apiece en route to a 6-2 […]
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Portland Police Beat: Jan. 25
Arrests 1/15 at 9:30 p.m. Robert J. Clifford, 26, of Portland, was arrested on Interstate 95 by Officer Jonathan Lackee on a charge of operating without a license. 1/15 at 12:52 p.m. Andrea E. Davidson, 28, of Westbrook, was arrested on Brighton Avenue by Officer Sara Clukey on an outstanding warrant from another agency. 1/15 at 5:45 p.m. Kyle A. Whitney, […]
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President to resign at Cheverus High School in Portland
PORTLAND — The Rev. George E. Collins will step down as president of Cheverus High School on June 30. Collins has headed the Catholic co-educational school for the past 18 months, but now feels called to return to pastoral spiritual ministry, Cheverus announced in a Jan. 19 press release. The board of trustees has tapped […]
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Federal greenbacks fund Maine brownfields cleanups
PORTLAND — Thompson’s Point could provide a good example of how federal money boosts economic development. The federal, state and local officials who declared this at Cellardoor Winery on Jan. 19 also want people to know there is $1 million more in hand for the same uses. The press conference at one of the businesses now […]
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10K turn out for Women’s Walk Portland
Women’s Walk Portland from Sun Media on Vimeo. (Dan D’Ippolito / For The Forecaster) Marchers line up along the Eastern Promenade on Munjoy Hill Saturday, Jan. 21, at the start of the Women’s Walk Portland, one of many marches around the country held in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington to support causes expected […]
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Fundraising continues for Fort Gorges preservation
PORTLAND — The Friends of Fort Gorges are still raising money to fund a preservation study that would revitalize the Civil War-era fort and potentially open it up the public. Nearly a year ago the friends group announced it had received a $20,000 grant from the Maine Historic Preservation Commission that would help pay for […]
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Body found in Cape Elizabeth identified as missing Portland man
PORTLAND — The body of a man discovered on a Cape Elizabeth beach on Tuesday, Jan. 17, was identified Friday as a Cumberland Avenue man missing since late November 2016. Police Lt. Robert Martin said the tentative identification of Evariste Munyensanga, 29, came as the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner continues its investigation into […]
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Portland Jewish center receives bomb threat
PORTLAND — More than 40 children and a dozen adult staffers were evacuated from the Jewish Community Alliance, 57 Ashmont St., after a bomb threat was received Wednesday morning. The call was received around 9:30 a.m. The caller said a bomb would be detonated in the center’s preschool and “also made anti-Semitic statements,” Police Lt. Robert Martin […]