PORTLAND — An emergency push for a moratorium on marijuana sales stalled at Monday’s City Council meeting, but will get a Nov. 21 public hearing and vote. Debate on the six-month moratorium proposed by Councilors Belinda Ray and Ed Suslovic capped a 3 1/2-hour meeting, where action on housing regulations and a moratorium on development […]

PORTLAND — City officials plan to present a fourth option for proposed amendments governing West Commercial Street building heights at a Nov. 22 Planning Board workshop. Just what the option may be was not determined in a 2 1/2-hour community meeting Nov. 3 at Reiche School. “We really want to facilitate a discussion that will lead […]

Portland Wed.  11/9  4:30 p.m.  Planning Board  CH Thur.  11/10  5 p.m.  Board of Harbor Commissioners  CH Thur.  11/10  5:30 p.m.  Health and Human Services Committee  PPL Thur.  11/10  5 p.m.  Land Bank Commission  CH Mon.  11/14  5:30 p.m.  Bicycle Pedestrian Committee  CH Mon.  11/14  6:30 p.m.  District 5 Annual Meeting  Riverton School Tues.  11/15 […]

PORTLAND — After leaving the U.S. Air Force, Camden Ege anticipated a career in law enforcement. Instead, the University of Southern Maine graduate student is in a zone. Specifically the Green Zone, the campus outreach group Ege leads to help veterans become acclimated to campus life while students, faculty and other campus staff get a better […]

PORTLAND — Students at the University of Southern Maine will likely be able to call Marginal Way a temporary home beginning next fall. USM’s board of trustees is scheduled to vote on a plan to lease 200 beds at the Bayside Village apartment complex at its Nov. 14 meeting. The board’s Finance, Facilities and Technology […]

PORTLAND — The city and the nonprofit Maine Project for Fine Art Conservation are working to preserve unseen municipal art that has languished in City Hall. On Nov. 16 at 5 p.m., the public can view progress on one of the conserved portraits in a State of Maine Room fundraiser. The portrait of William Pitt Fessenden, a U.S. representative and […]

PORTLAND — The city will celebrate Veterans Day with its traditional Congress Street parade on Friday, Nov. 11. The holiday will also be observed with a ceremony and luncheon Wednesday, Nov. 9, and Thursday, Nov. 10, respectively. The parade from Longfellow Square to City Hall begins at 10:30 a.m. Friday, and will be followed by a […]

PORTLAND — The Wednesday, Nov. 9, meeting of the City Council Housing Committee has been postponed to Thursday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m. at City Hall. The meeting agenda was not released, but committee members had indicated they would continue to discuss regulations for short-term housing rentals.

PORTLAND — The public is invited to discuss the city’s new Comprehensive Plan at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Way. The forum in Rines Auditorium will be led by city Planning Department staff and detail preliminary goals and recommendations, city spokeswoman Jessica Grondin said in a press release. The […]