PORTLAND — Absentee ballots are now available for the Sept. 4 public referendum on a $1.9 million supplemental school budget. Voters must submit the absentee ballots by Aug. 30 to the City Clerk’s office at City Hall during regular business hours, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The office will be open until 7 p.m. on the final […]
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Portland elementary schools to benefit from $2.2M grant
PORTLAND — Education nonprofit LearningWorks has announced a $2.2 million grant that will benefit two underachieving city elementary schools. The three-year grant, provided by the Corporation for National and Community Service and U.S. Department of Education, is intended to improve student achievement at Riverton Elementary School and East End Community School. “East End and Riverton […]
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Out & About: Festivals mark end-of-summer A&E season
The roadside ferns are turning brown, sumac bushes are turning red and the shadows at five o’clock are getting quite long. Those are among the telltale signs that mark the end of the summer season. On the performing arts calendar, a pair of festivals mark the end of the summer. Biggest by far is the […]
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Portland Police Beat: Aug. 21
Arrests 8/10 at 9 p.m. Michael A. Lavoie, 44, of Portland, was arrested on West Street by Officer Eric Johnson on a charge of unlawful possession of scheduled drugs. 8/10 at 9 p.m. David McKenney, 55, no address listed, was arrested on Oxford Street by Officer Brent Abbott on a charge of indecent conduct. 8/10 […]
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Portland Meetings: Aug. 21-27
Wed. 8/21 4 p.m. Island Advisory Committee Casco Bay Ferry Terminal Wed. 8/21 4 p.m. Public Art Committee PPL Wed. 8/21 5:30 p.m. Housing and Community Development Board CH Tues. 8/27 3:30 p.m. Planning Board Workshop CH Tues. 8/27 5 p.m. Board of Harbor Commissioners Workshop 2 Portland Fish Pier Tues. 8/27 6 p.m. Friends […]
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Arts Calendar: Aug. 21-Sept. 3
Greater Portland Books & Authors Thursday 8/22 David Little, author of “Art of Katahdin,” 7 p.m., Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland, 774-1822, free. Tuesday 8/27 Ted Kerasote, author of “Pukka’s Promise,” 6 p.m., Planet Dog, 211 Marginal Way, Portland, 347-8606. Wednesday 8/28 Elise Richer, author of “Always in Season” cookbook, 11 a.m., Portland […]
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Community Calendar: Aug. 21 to Sept. 3
Greater Portland Benefits Saturday 8/24 Paws for a Cause 5K and Walk, 5K begins 8 a.m. in Memorial Park, Freeport; 1-mile walk and parade begins 10 a.m. at L.L. Bean, 1 Freeport Farms, Freeport, 449-1366, ext. 1. Bulletin Board Saturday 8/24 Family barn dance, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Wolfe’s Neck Farm Red Barn, 184 Burnett Road, Freeport, […]
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Full sail
Island homes line the shore like spectators during the annual MS Regatta, Saturday, Aug. 17, on Portland Harbor.
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The View From Away: If laughter is the best medicine, Facebook is a placebo
So I suspended my Facebook to avoid the ideological robots who made it uninhabitable in the run-up to the election. It was a surprisingly isolating decision. It turns out email is the new snail-mail, more an object of ridicule than a means of communication, and the people in my life do not seem to remember […]
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Unsung Hero: Willo Wright, guardian angel for troubled youth
FREEPORT — Willo Wright’s early years in Bozeman, Mont., did not presage a happy future. Other kids teased her constantly. She grew plump, which increased the ridicule. Her father died when she was 16. She got pregnant and married at 18. She later got divorced; then remarried; then divorced again. And along the way her […]