PORTLAND — City councilors Monday repealed a Congress Street buffer zone established for Planned Parenthood last November, conceding a June 26 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a similar law gave them little legal ground to stand on. “It looks like we have zero chance of winning this in court,” Councilor David Marshall said before […]

PORTLAND — It was near a poet’s birthplace, and then a source of the region’s metallic might. But the expansive brick complex at 86 Newbury St. is now the state’s biggest source of beer. “If I said I knew we would be here like this, I’d be lying to you,” Shipyard Brewing Co. owner Fred […]

PORTLAND — Cory Tracy rolls his wheelchair to Congress Square Park and parks at his customary spot against a monolithic black utilities box. It’s an inconspicuous location made conspicuous by Tracy’s presence. Each day since May, weather permitting, Tracy wields his attention-grabbing, hand-painted protest signs: “Atheists don’t need to shout,” “I mock all religion,” and “Thank God for […]

PORTLAND — Street theatre, puppetry and trailers from flood movies will welcome the highest tide of the year just after midnight on Monday, July 14. The “King Tide BYO Chair Party” will be held in East Bayside, at Cove Street and Marginal Way, where the astronomically high tide is expected to rise above 11 feet […]

PORTLAND — Buy a brick, save a church. That’s the plan for Sacred Heart Church as the Sacred Heart-St. Dominic Parish looks to raise $200,000 – with a Latino Festival thrown in for good measure on Saturday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The festival in the church hall and parking lot, at Sherman and Mellen streets, […]