PORTLAND — The Multilingual & Multicultural Center has received an $8,000 grant from the Maine Community Foundation that will be used to help students build academic profiles for college admission, according to a Jan. 13 School Department press release. The grant will support the center’s Make It Happen! extended learning program, designed to assist multilingual […]

PORTLAND — Public comment about the “graffiti wall” near East End Beach will be heard at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, at the Portland Water District, 224 Douglass St. The PWD Trustees Planning Committee has invited public comment after East Bayside resident Jay York asked trustees to stop allowing the public to spray paint a retaining […]

PORTLAND — It’s been six months since The Maine Girls’ Academy officially changed its name and dropped all affiliation with the Sisters of Mercy, who founded the school in 1969. In some ways nothing has changed; in other ways everything has changed. With the new name have come several significant gifts that will help the school as it keeps […]

PORTLAND — The breadth of Mayor Ethan Strimling’s vision for the city was displayed Monday in his 42-minute State of the City address at City Hall. “I promise I won’t keep you three hours, but it won’t be for five minutes either,” Strimling said at the outset of a speech that was both conciliatory and resolute. […]

PORTLAND — From public works to parking lots, the city plans to sell land. “It will be one of our goals to dispose of as many city properties as we can. The economy looks like it is the appropriate time. Hopefully we will yield the greatest return we can get,” Councilor David Brenerman said Monday, six […]

PORTLAND — Aspiring playwrights at Deering High School will have their one-act plays staged this weekend, with one of the plays being chosen to represent the school in the annual Maine Drama Festival held each March. This is the first time that four student-written and student-directed plays will appear on stage in this way, according to Kathleen […]

PORTLAND — The future of solid waste collection could be revealed this month when the city opens bids from two private contractors. Bids on a request for proposals to privatize solid waste collection were scheduled to be opened Tuesday, Jan. 10. On Jan. 18, bids to provide 25,000 wheeled and lidded carts to collect and store […]

Arrests 1/1 at 1:25 a.m. Samantha L. Greenaway, 21, of Old Orchard Beach, was arrested on Forest Avenue by Officer Kyle Brake on a charge of operating under the influence. 1/1 at 3:27 a.m. Alyssa Keating, 22, of Portland, was arrested on Munjoy South by Officer Zahra Abu on a charge of aggravated assault. 1/1 at 5:25 a.m. Benjamin […]

Portland Wed.  1/11  5:30 p.m.  Housing Committee  CH Wed.  1/11  6 p.m.  Hall School Building Committee  Hall School Thur.  1/12  5 p.m.  Board of Harbor Commissioners (Public Hearing)  CH Thur.  1/12  5 p.m.  Finance Committee  CH Tues.  1/17  4:30 p.m.  Planning Board  (Workshop)  CH Tues.  1/17  7  p.m.  Planning Board  (Public Hearing)  CH Tues.  1/17  […]