Wed. 10/9 5 p.m. Historic Preservation Committee TH Wed. 10/9 5:30 p.m. Housing & Community Development Committee TH Wed. 10/9 6 p.m. Public Safety TH Thur. 10/10 5 p.m. Board of Harbor Commissioners Public Hearing S. Portland City Hall Thur. 10/10 5:30 p.m. Nomination Committee TH Thur. 10/10 5:30 p.m. Joint City/School Finance Committee TH […]
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Meet the Pirates 2013-14
Return to Pirates coverage 2013-14 Players Mathieu Brisebois, No. 7Age: 21 Position: DefenseHeight: 5-11 Weight: 195Hometown: Mont St. Hilaire, QuebecHistory: Signed as a free agent, Brisebois spent part of his first season in the QMJHL with the old Lewiston Maineiacs. He scored 36 goals and had 95 assists during his final two seasons with the […]
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Arabic language now a little less foreign to students at Portland's Deering High School
PORTLAND — Billy Johnson leaned back in his chair, held up his iPad and chided his classmate in a joking tone. “Ahmed’s just jealous because I write Arabic better than he does,” he said. Johnson – a blond-haired, football jersey-wearing junior at Deering High School – was one of nine students in the Arabic language […]
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Portland drug raid nets 4 people, crack, heroin worth $30K
PORTLAND — State drug agents and city police raided a downtown apartment and arrested four people Monday afternoon on drug trafficking charges. The arrests capped a six-month investigation into the local distribution of heroin and crack cocaine. Cmdr. Scott Pelletier of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency said Tuesday that police arrested Denise Parham, 54, who […]
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Portland's Longfellow Park gets long-overdue improvements
PORTLAND — While the city has debated the future of open spaces such as Congress Square Plaza, improvements have quietly been made to a lesser-known space in the Oakdale neighborhood. The city is working to upgrade Longfellow Park, a third-of-an-acre triangular patch of grass, trees and walks bounded by Longfellow, Noyes and Oakdale streets. “It’s […]
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b.good: Local, healthy fast food comes to Portland
PORTLAND — The sign at 15 Exchange St. was a gastronomic gauntlet. “Real food will be here in six days,” the wording in the window of b.good announced in late September. A few days later, the Boston burger company declared: “real food will be here today,” and the downtown lunch crowd was ready. Burgers made […]
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Portland council loosens restrictions, reduces fees for food trucks
PORTLAND — The City Council on Monday relaxed some food truck regulations that were adopted last year, but “misinterpreted” the intent of the task force that drafted them. In July, City Manager Mark Rees wrote a letter to food truck operators, soliciting feedback on the rules. Some complained that the rules banned food trucks from […]
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Maine's unlikely 'Walter White': Harvey Prager broke bad and paid the price 25 years ago, now practices law
PORTLAND — Twenty-five years ago this Friday, Maine’s most infamous drug smuggler received a headline-making criminal sentence that many considered a slap on the wrist. While several members of his marijuana-importing business were sentenced to years in prison, Harvey Prager lived in his Portland home, with his wife and children, and took care of dying AIDS […]
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Portland Police Beat: Oct. 9
Arrests 9/27 at midnight. Jack R. Trabucchi, 25, of Portland, was arrested on Spring Street by Officer Christopher Shinay on a charge of disorderly conduct. 9/27 at 2 a.m. Thomas N. Lopes, 33, of Limington, was arrested on Oxford Street by Officer Zachary Finley on an outstanding warrant from another agency and a charge of […]
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Phyllis J. Staples, 92: World War II shipyard worker, loved music and singing
PORTLAND — Phyllis Jean Staples, 92, of Portland, died Oct. 3 at the Maine Medical Center. She was born in Houlton on Aug. 3, 1921, the daughter of James and Alveretta McGann. She grew up in Houlton before moving to Portland with her family in her teens. Staples worked at the shipyard in South Portland during […]