Seats will cost a bit more, and the AHL team is planning a new focus on connecting with the community.

PORTLAND — Voters will get a say in whether the city can sell most of the publicly owned Congress Square Park to private hotel developers. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday rejected the city’s challenge to a referendum on whether to change the city’s Land Bank Commission ordinance to layer additional protections on Congress […]

PORTLAND — A 45,000-square-foot upscale apartment-and-retail development in the West End drew city officials to a groundbreaking Tuesday morning. Mayor Michael Brennan, City Manager Mark Rees and City Councilor David Marshall joined developers Paul E. Peck, who is an attorney at Drummond & Drummond, and Jonathan and Catherine Culley, of Redfern Properties. The $6 million, […]

PORTLAND — Property owners could face a tax increase of 62 cents per $1,000 of assessed value if the proposed fiscal year 2015 education and municipal budgets are enacted. The increase would result in a tax rate of $20.03 per $1,000 of assessed value. On Monday, the City Council, with Councilor Jon Hinck opposed, gave […]

PORTLAND — Interested vendors have until 3 p.m. May 21 to submit requests for proposals to operate food trucks and carts in some city parks. The process and locations are much the same as last year, with the addition of as many as two spots in Congress Square Plaza. A change in the ordinance for […]

PORTLAND — The School Department food service director has won the Outstanding Director of the Year Award for Maine from the School Nutrition Association, a national nonprofit that seeks to improve the quality of school meals. Ron Adams, who has been the department’s food director for six years, will receive the award July 13 in […]