New shady spaces grace Presumpscot Landscapers and nursery owners from all over Maine came to Presumpscot Elementary School in last month to help with a service project organized by the Maine Landscapers and Nursery Association. Trees and shrubs were planted to create a shaded area near the school playing fields, and volunteers built a patio to […]
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People and Business: Oct. 9-15
Expansions Fluid Imaging Technologies, a laboratory instrumentation manufacturer, opened new corporate headquarters on Enterprise Drive in Scarborough last month. The 17,000-square-foot facility features a state-of-the-art product development research and engineering laboratory and a dedicated sample testing laboratory with all manufacturing, assembly, software development and sales, marketing and customer support under one roof. Kent Peterson, company president […]
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Portland schools seek musical instruments
PORTLAND — The School Department is seeking donations of musical instruments. The instruments will be collected from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 26, at Lincoln Middle School, 522 Stevens Ave. Donations can include stringed, brass, woodwind and percussion instruments, particularly saxophones, and smaller-sized string instruments for children.
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Portland’s One Longfellow Square seeks community support to keep lights on, music playing
PORTLAND — Any given night, there are ample opportunities to hear live music in the city, whether it’s a major touring artist, quadruple bill of local bands, a metal band or singer-songwriter. Show up at the venue, give them your ticket or cover, order a drink, perhaps, and listen. In the midst of all that […]
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Shutdown has 'no immediate impact' on Portland schools
PORTLAND — The federal government shutdown does not have impact on Portland Public Schools for now, but it could if the stalemate in Washington continues. The district is partially funded by federal grants, “but most of that money already has been committed or it is exempt from the shutdown,” according to a news release from […]
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Unsung Hero: Dick Moll, the window-box man of Brunswick
BRUNSWICK — Several years ago, Dick Moll was walking around Edinburgh, Scotland, when he noticed a spectacular display of window boxes and flower plantings that reached from the ground to the top of a pub. “I walked into the pub to have a beer and ask about the plantings,” Moll recalled, “and the bartender said […]
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The Universal Notebook: Regrets only
A peculiar anticipation has overtaken me lately, a feeling that I am now of an age (64) at which I am running out of time to do all the things that there was once a lifetime to do. But that’s not really the peculiar part. The peculiar part is that I do not regret things […]
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Abby's Road: Get ready to receive, because I'm ready to serve
Well, it’s decided. I’m going to run for elected office. I’m not sure which office yet, but it’s going to be national and it’s going to be awesome. Whether I’ll be a representative for some subsection of Maine or a senator for some broader slice of it is irrelevant. You, my constituents, will only care […]
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Policy Wonk: A healthy Maine economy needs a healthy educational system
At the national level, and in Maine, educational research data is increasingly clear: we are disinvesting in higher and K-12 public education. We’ve been doing so for a long time. And though there is some variation in the data, the results are equally clear: student achievement in the U.S. in critical subject matter areas (math, […]