May arrives this week with a plethora of sunshine and flowers, plus an equal bounty of arts and entertainment. A superb singer-songwriter and a leading Americana-rockabilly band are two of the top offerings at Portland’s One Longfellow Square. First up is singer-songwriter Maia Sharp. Then it’s Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, a four-man Americana […]
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The Universal Notebook: It's nobody's fault but our own
As America attempts to come to terms with health-care reform, the national debt, immigration reform, climate change and the epidemic of gun violence, the fault lines that threaten a more perfect union are becoming pretty darn obvious. They run along cultural divides, geographic borders, philosophical differences, personal attitudes and partisan boundaries. Here’s the way I […]
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The View From Away: An urge for revenge in the land of the loonie
My coworkers on this TV show, who are almost exclusively Canadian, have been friendly and welcoming. So have the other people I have run across in Toronto, for the most part. One exception occurred at a suburban movie theater, where a woman wheeled on me and said I was standing too close to her in […]
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Forecaster Forum: Portland hotel plan is an attack on a people's park
The argument over the fate of Congress Square Plaza has brought a fusillade of insults aimed at that small, but important piece of public property and the people who use it. Developers want to take almost three quarters of the public space at the corner of High and Congress streets to build an event space […]
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Controllers to return after flight delays sway Congress
With President Obama’s promised signature, the measure will erase one of the most stinging and publicly visible consequences of the budget cuts known as the sequester.
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In Maine, GPS directs driver into deep water
En route to a job interview in Portland, a man must be rescued from a submerged Pontiac Grand Am in Lebanon.
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Portland's East Bayside on a roll: Bagel shop, others see growing appeal
PORTLAND — Sandwiched between the heights of Munjoy Hill and potentially lofty towers of the proposed Midtown development in Bayside, the East Bayside neighborhood is seeing a small but steady influx of new residents and businesses. One of the newest is Union Bagel Co., which is now preparing to open its doors at 147 Cumberland […]
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Community Calendar, April 24-May 7
Greater Portland Benefits Thursday 4/25 Faculty Talent Show and Silent Auction, 5:15-8 p.m., King Middle School, 92 Deering Ave., Portland, 874-8140. Friday 4/26 Happy Trails Big Bash & Silent Auction to benefit Portland Trails, 5:30-10 p.m., The Portland Club, 156 State St., Portland, 775-2411. Saturday 4/27 Dinner to benefit HART no-kill cat shelter, 6 p.m., Stone’s Cafe […]
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Portland City Council OKs zoning change for Bayside towers
PORTLAND — The City Council on Monday unanimously approved zoning changes that will allow plans for a complex of high-rise apartment towers, parking garages and retail shops to move forward. The “Midtown” project, being proposed by Miami-based Federated Cos., would construct four 165-foot towers and two parking garages on 3.25 acres of former scrap yards […]
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Summer program seeks entrepreneurial Maine kids
PORTLAND — Three years ago, Kate Gooding had kids around the state selling lemonade for a day as a way to teach them how to run a business. But she found the program too limiting. So last year, the former marketing executive from Falmouth transformed the lemonade stand program into one where entrepreneurial Maine students could […]