PORTLAND — The year was 1956. Dwight D. Eisenhower won a second term as president, Elvis Presley released his debut album, and Fred P. Hall Elementary School was built in the city’s Deering neighborhood. Nearly 60 years later, the aging, wood-framed building at 23 Orono Road could be destined to be replaced. Earlier this month, […]
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Portland mayor leads trip to Japanese sister city
PORTLAND — Trips to Shinagawa, Japan, are becoming a Brennan family tradition. But to get there, Mayor Michael Brennan first had to get elected. Following in the footsteps of his sons, who visited Portland’s sister city with youth and sports cultural exchanges, Brennan left Saturday for a week in the city, celebrating its 30-year sister-city […]
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Portland Police Beat: April 23
Arrests 4/11 at 9 a.m. Jason W. Campbell, 39, of Portland, was arrested on Alder Street by Officer Mark Kezal on a charge of robbery. 4/11 at 3 p.m. Peter N. Johnson, 28, no address listed, was arrested on Commercial Street by Officer Laurence Smith Jr. on a charge of disorderly conduct. 4/11 at 5 […]
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Bertel Edward Serfes Sr., 69: Marine Corps veteran, longtime police officer
PORTLAND — Bertel Edward Serfes Sr., 69, died April 11. He was born in Yarmouth, formerly of Falmouth, a son of Louis and Mary Serfes. He was the youngest of five children and attended Falmouth schools. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1962, and after 2 1/2 tours in Vietnam, he was honorably discharged in […]
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Josephine Atlass, 88
PORTLAND — Josephine Atlass, 88, died April 13. She was born March 22, 1926, in New York City. She attended New York schools and graduated from Hunter College. She married Hadley Atlass in 1950 and raised two sons in New York. In 1971, they moved to Orr’s Island and purchased the Little Island Motel. First with […]
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Portland School Notebook: April 23
Waynflete two-time Science Olympiad champs Waynflete School recently won the Maine State Science Olympiad tournament for the second year in a row. Thirty Waynflete students competed in 23 different science and engineering events at the University of Maine in Orono March 29. The students built elastic-launched gliders, compound machines, “Rube Goldberg” devices, magnetically-levitated vehicles and […]
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People and Business: April 23
Patriotic quilt featured in national magazine An American flag pattern, “Born on the 4th,” created by Cumberland resident Beth Maitland, will appear in the May/June 2014 issue of McCall’s Quilting magazine. Maitland, owner of Impressions in Fabric, made four flag quilts, the first one shortly after Sept. 11, 2001. The next two were made 10 years later when […]
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Portland Meetings: April 23-29
Wed. 4/23 5:30 p.m. Housing & Community Development Committee CH Wed. 4/23 6:30 p.m. Peaks Island Council McVane Community Center Thur. 4/24 6 p.m. Finance Committee CH Mon. 4/28 5:30 p.m. City Council Workshop CH Mon. 4/28 7 p.m. City Council Meeting CH Tues. 4/29 5 p.m. Board of Harbor Commissioners Workshop 2 Portland Fish […]
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Sprucing up Longfellow Park in Portland
Jennifer Corthell and Katelyn Ladd add a new mulch cover to an old tree in Portland’s Longfellow Park on Friday, April 18, as part of the second annual park cleanup, organized by Carol Schiller, president of the University Neighborhood Organization. Corthell lives across from the park on Longfellow Street, and Ladd was one of about […]
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Doing what comes naturally at Portland citizenship ceremony
Eighty people, including the mother of 15-month-old Hela Fabbar, became U.S. citizens Friday, April 18, in a ceremony at Lyman Moore Middle School in Portland. It was the fourth time a naturalization ceremony was held at the school as part of a seven-week learning program on immigration. Hela’s mother, Azhar Fabbar, from Iraq, is in […]