PORTLAND — Siblings can agree to disagree, City Councilor Ed Suslovic believes. Even if they don’t speak the same language. Officials from Portland’s sister city, Archangel, Russia, met Nov. 21 for a frank discussion with Suslovic, Police Chief Michael Sauschuck and several other community leaders. Reporters were initially invited to sit in on the meeting. […]
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Portland begins Congress Street bus corridor experiment
PORTLAND — A bus priority corridor along Congress Street is being created on a trial basis, starting this week and running through early 2014, Deputy City Manager Sheila Hill-Christian said Nov. 22. Between Franklin and State streets, some Metro bus stops will be relocated, some buses will stop “in-line” in traffic lanes rather than pulling […]
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Designers bring 'Joy to the World' at Portland's Victoria Mansion
PORTLAND — Victoria Mansion, the historic home and museum at 109 Danforth St., begins its 30th annual holiday celebration Friday bedecked in an international style. And for the first time, the mansion will be open to the public in the evening. Nearly a dozen local florists and designers volunteered time and materials to decorate the […]
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Buoy Local gift card aims to lift Portland-area holiday sales
PORTLAND — Just in time for the holiday shopping season, two local entrepreneurs are launching a gift-buying card that can be redeemed at 30 area merchants. Kai Smith and Sean Sullivan are marketing Buoy Local as a “community-based gift card” valid for shopping at Portland-area retailers including Rosemont Markets, Coffee By Design, Springer’s Jewelers and […]
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Portland schools hope to bolster STEM education
PORTLAND — Allen Armstrong stood in the middle of a classroom and surveyed students’ work as they toiled on laptops, creating 3-D designs. Armstrong, a retired mechanical engineer who’s now a classroom volunteer, recalled when he cut his teeth in engineering a half century ago in his father’s garage, building go-carts with motorcycle engines that […]
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Fire causes as much as $9M in damage to historic island fort building in Portland
PORTLAND — An early morning fire Saturday did between $5 million and $9 million worth of damage to a historic island fort property being renovated as a hotel. According to an announcement Saturday morning by Deputy Portland City Manager Sheila Hill-Christian, the Portland Fire Department responded to a structure fire at 18 McKinley Court on […]
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Global Matters: Hail and farewell
This is my final column for The Forecaster. It has been a pleasure and privilege to share my opinions and observations with you for the past four years. I’m grateful to the editor, Mo Mehlsak, for the opportunity to have done so, and to the executives at Sun Media newspapers, who chose not to question […]
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The View From Away: A lawyer, a comic and a TV writer walk into a bar …
I have recently taken to hanging out in bars again. Well, one bar, near my house in Scarborough. It has taken me a bit by surprise, as bars have never been my preferred venue for socializing. My people are stout Midwestern Protestants who believed that if you were not judging – i. e., disapproving of – […]
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Out & About: Give thanks for One Longfellow Square
It’s the season to give thanks for our many blessings. For music lovers in southern Maine, Portland’s One Longfellow Square is one of the most prominent of those many blessings. A few months ago the nonprofit arts venue was on the verge of folding due to financial pressures, but OLS recently completed a successful fundraising […]
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The Universal Notebook: Power crazy
Recently I experienced one of those fits of acquisitive mania I used to get quite often when I was a kid. It seems there was always something I just had to have and I couldn’t rest until I had acquired it – pool table, BB gun, black onyx ring, Pendleton jacket, madras shirt, motor scooter, […]