Wed. 5/8 5 p.m. Libbytown Transportation Study Public Workshop CH Wed. 5/8 5:30 p.m. Housing and Community Development Committee CH Wed. 5/8 6 p.m. Police Citizen Review Subcommittee Public Safety Building Thur. 5/9 5 p.m. Board of Harbor Commissioners Public Hearing CH Thur. 5/9 5:30 p.m. Joint City/School Finance Committee CH Fri. 5/10 10 a.m. […]
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Portland Police Beat: May 8
Arrests 4/26 at 10 p.m. Moses Okot, 24, of Portland, was arrested on East Lancaster Street by Officer Charles Ames on a charge of unlawful possession of scheduled drugs. 4/26 at 10 p.m. Elizabeth A. Sylvester, 28, of Portland, was arrested on Congress Street by Officer Eric Johnson on a charge of operating under the […]
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Advertising, circulation losses sink The Island Times
PORTLAND — The Island Times, a 10-year-old, monthly community newspaper covering Peaks Island and other Casco Bay islands, is ceasing operation, publisher Kevin Attra announced last week. Shrinking ad revenue, distribution and readership accounted for Attra’s decision to close, he wrote in the free newspaper’s final issue. “(The Island Times) was quite self-sustaining until last […]
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Unsung Heroes: Scarborough Alzheimer's caregivers Tim Osgood, Kelly Labbe
SCARBOROUGH — Chances are you know someone with Alzheimer’s disease. More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, and one in eight older Americans has the disease. Indeed, Alzheimer’s is the only cause of death among the top 10 in the U.S. that cannot be prevented, cured or even slowed. You may not […]
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Out & About: 'The Last Romance' is outstanding dramatic-comedy
The recent wave of superb spring weather underscored the fact that Maine’s summertime is quickly approaching. The same can be said for the arts and entertainment calendar as the fall-winter-spring seasons wrap up for most producers and presenters, clearing the way for summer. It’s a week of seasonal sayonaras for several of southern Maine’s performing […]
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The Universal Notebook: LePage, Bowen both get F's
Did anyone ever benefit from being publicly identified as a total failure? I don’t think so. But that’s what Gov. Paul LePage and education Commissioner Stephen Bowen have done by releasing a completely bogus Maine School Performance Grading System report card that ranks some 600 public schools in Maine A to F. The Maine Department […]
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Policy Wonk: Concrete alternatives to the LePage budget
As this column was about to go to press, a bi-partisan group of legislators led by Sen. Richard Woodbury, U-Yarmouth, released a bold proposal to reform state taxes and tax expenditures. There is a lot to like in the bi-partisan reforms, but some provisions will almost certainly generate push-back from many directions. Within the next […]
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Abby's Road: My son explains it all
My son is almost 19 months old. Recently, he was trying to bite my kneecap as I bent down to put away some folded laundry. I turned to him and I said: “Son, what is up?” This was his answer: “What is up? You are up. The stairs are up. The kitchen stools are up. […]
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Short Relief: Portland should tap street-corner labor pool
I was relatively lucky to graduate from law school in 1986. The U.S. economy and employment rates were growing. Law firms were expanding and hiring, and increasing the opportunities for all law graduates. I took a job working for the federal government in Washington, D.C. By the early 1990s, the economy had turned down. Unemployment […]
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NOAA announces catch limits for the upcoming groundfishing season
The quotas will affect cod, haddock and flounder stock.