PORTLAND — The Portland Public Schools hired three new administrators, including Ellen Sanborn as chief financial officer. Sanborn was the city’s finance director for the past six years. She joined the city of Portland as senior accountant for the Parks and Public Works Department in 1984, and later advanced to the Finance Department. Sanborn has […]

PORTLAND — After seven years serving the Shaarey Tphiloh synagogue community, Rabbi Akiva Herzfeld and his family are making a move most Americans might find hard to understand. Herzfeld, his wife, and their three children this week will be doing what is known as “making aliyah,” or immigrating to Israel. “As a rabbi I’m called […]

Former first lady Barbara Bush concludes a reading of “Bear Says Thanks” to about a dozen patients Monday during a visit with her Maltese poodle Mini Me to The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center in Portland. At left are Dustin Kimball, Olivia Blachet and 1-month-old Charlie Kimball. In March, while Blachet was 22 […]

PORTLAND — From his frame shop at the corner of State and Pine streets, owner Tim Hussey gets a daily view of traffic passing through Longfellow Square. “I see one rear-ender a week,” Hussey said Aug. 1 as he considered the effects of returning State Street to two-way traffic. “It’s going to cause a big […]

PORTLAND — Everything Will and Kathleen Pratt have been brewing in East Bayside will soon be wafting uphill to the West End. The owners of Tandem Coffee Roasters, which opened two years ago, are preparing a new bakery and cafe at 742 Congress St. It is expected to open this month. “We knew we wanted […]

PORTLAND — The celebration comes Thursday at the expanded Casco Bay Lines terminal off Commercial Street, but General Manager Hank Berg said the difference is already clear to see. “I characterize this year as transformational,” Berg said Aug. 1 as a sea breeze swept past opened doors into the glassy, 4,500-square-foot addition opened the weekend […]