PORTLAND — In advance of Memorial Day, which is May 27, Portland will be the site of a screening of a 2010 documentary about how a small Maine town coped with the impact of the Iraq War. Lee, a town of 845 people about 60 miles north of Bangor, was home to two soldiers killed […]

PORTLAND — The so-called “Education District” proposed for the city by members of the University Neighborhood Organization will remain just a proposal for the time being. The City Council’s Transportation, Sustainability and Energy Committee tabled the idea indefinitely on May 1. After urging by UNO President Carol Schiller, the committee had asked city staff to […]

PORTLAND — The Libbytown neighborhood, a historic area of the city that was decimated by changes in the transportation system a half century ago, is thriving once again. This time, transportation is helping. The neighborhood, which surrounds Congress Street between Sewall and Valley streets, was the home of mostly Irish immigrants in the mid-1800s. It […]

PORTLAND — Building wind turbines, collecting biological data on sea life and writing policy proposals for lawmakers about clean air are usually tasks for engineers, scientists and attorneys. At King Middle School, it’s just part of the curriculum. Throughout the school year, students at King take the traditional school-day lessons of reading, writing, art and […]

PORTLAND — From a Maine nonprofit group’s leak of confidential data in February, to the May 9 discovery that a worldwide gang of criminals stole $45 million by hacking into a database of prepaid debit cards, information security problems are a widespread concern these days. A group of national experts is in Portland this week […]

PORTLAND — A downtown business owner who organized counter-protests against anti-abortion demonstrators near his restaurant said he will close the business this summer. Mike Fink owns Mike’s Restaurant, at 437 Congress St., and Guitar Grave, a pawn shop and music store, at 441 Congress St. Both businesses are in the same building as the Portland […]

PORTLAND — After administrative turmoil and a slimming down of its original plans, the city’s first charter school received final approval from the Maine Charter School Commission on May 7. Baxter Academy for Technology and Science, which is slated to open this fall at 54 York St., reduced its enrollment projections, leading to reductions in […]