PORTLAND — Preble Street’s Maine Hunger Initiative is hosting the Portland premiere of “A Place at the Table,” a documentary film on food insecurity, on Tuesday, April 30, at 7 p.m., at Nickelodeon Cinemas, 1 Temple St. An official selection of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, “A Place at the Table” tells the real-life stories […]
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Library coming to a Portland coffee shop near you
PORTLAND — Your favorite books may be as close as your favorite java joint, thanks to a new program from the Public Library. The Coffeehouse Library Project has stocked two coffee shops and the METRO Pulse bus station on Elm Street with collections of books. All books can be borrowed for free, without requirements for […]
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Unsung Hero: Jim Mardin of Portland, keeping Maine's military history alive
SOUTH PORTLAND — “June 13, 1944: France. Spent the early morning hours beside vehicles. Many German planes flying around the sky was red with tracers.” Portland resident Jim Mardin was 22 years old when he wrote those words in his log. He and other members of the advanced guard of the 460th Anti-Aircraft Battalion had […]
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The Universal Notebook: About that well-regulated militia …
Now that the U.S. Senate has made sure there is no chance that Americans will ever get the gun controls we want and need, I’m sure the victorious gunslingers of America won’t mind a little look back at what the Second Amendment was originally all about. A good buddy – an Army veteran, not a […]
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Global Matters: Terror in Boston, and the price of prevention
As Boston recovers from the brutal attack on the marathon and the city begins to regain its equilibrium , the eyes of the nation and the attention of Congress will soon turn away from the incident itself and pivot to the so-called “root causes” of terror. We’ll stop seeing the now familiar, grainy footage of […]
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Abby's Road: For Boston, a love mash-up
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more splendid and yet more gritty. White snows will blanket the budding trees along the Charles, And fall’s leaves will swirl down thine cobble-stoned streets. Sometime too congested the thoroughfares become, And a nickname is bestowed in honor of your drivers’ temperament; And every rivalry […]
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Letter: World is flatter than Delogu believes
If Orlando Delogu is a policy wonk he should know and have read Thomas L. Friedman’s wonderful, thoughtful, intelligent book, “The World is Flat,” published in 2005. Friedman, hardly in anyone’s view a right-wing conservative, would perhaps agree with some of the assertions Delogu makes in his April 8 column, “Contrary to right-wing opinion, the […]
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Injured Falmouth High School grad recovering at home after surviving Boston Marathon bomb
FALMOUTH — A Falmouth High School graduate is recovering at her parent’s home after she was injured in the Patriot’s Day terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon. The bomb that went off near the finish line on Boylston Street in Boston killed three people and injured more than 170. One of the injured was 20-year-old […]
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Stephen Shane Foster, 26: Had a generous spirit
SCARBOROUGH — Stephen Shane Foster, 26, of Scarborough and Portland, died suddenly of an asthma attack on Easter Sunday, March 31. He was born Oct. 6, 1986, in Portland, the son of Shannon Gorham and James Kaiser. He grew up in Scarborough, attending schools there and graduating from Scarborough High School in 2005. Foster loved sports. […]
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Former chamber executive takes top job at Habitat for Humanity in Portland
PORTLAND — Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland has named Godfrey Wood, former chief executive officer of the Portland Regional Chamber, as executive director. Wood, a Falmouth resident who retired from the chamber last December after a 15-year tenure, will begin his new role April 29, according to a press release Wednesday. He replaces Amy […]