It’s finally sinking in that I’m in Toronto for a real job, with a workday, coworkers and an office. The people are nice. The office environment is friendly. I’m still getting used to showing up at the same place every day and being on time, but it is almost liberating to have a regular schedule […]
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The Universal Notebook: The right-wing attack on Bowdoin College
So a propaganda organization funded by an ultra-right-wing billionaire has determined that Bowdoin College is too liberal for its tastes. That’s news? It is, according to ultra-right-wing Bowdoin grad and retired Portland Press Herald editor M.D. Harmon, who has been dining out on the National Association of Scholars’ “What Does Bowdoin Teach?” report in his […]
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Superintendent's Notebook: Plenty of volunteer opportunities in Portland schools
Priscilla Krasnow, 86, volunteers nearly every weekday in the fashion marketing class at Portland Arts and Technology High School. The students call her Mama K. If they arrive in a bad mood, she quickly changes that. “Our students love her,” says Tina Mikkelsen, PATHS’ community coordinator, “and she is as hip as they are.” A […]
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Letter: Accept federal funding to expand MaineCare
As a cancer survivor and volunteer for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, I urge the Legislature to accept the millions of dollars of federal funding being offered to Maine to increase access to health coverage through MaineCare, our state’s Medicaid program. Hard-working, low-income families managing a chronic disease like cancer need the security […]
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Neighbor: Family believed ‘North Pond Hermit’ had run off to New York
Christopher Knight may also have practiced for a year on his family’s Albion property before disappearing into the Maine woods alone for 27 years.
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Portland store-owner injured in robbery attempt
PORTLAND — A Rosemont neighborhood store-owner was injured in an attempted robbery Monday morning, police said. The owner of Don’s Baseball Card Center, 578 Brighton Ave., told police a man entered his store about 10:45 a.m. and threatened him. Believing he was being robbed, the owner struggled with the man, who struck him on the […]
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Future of MaineCare fuels debate at USM in Portland
PORTLAND — As state lawmakers in Augusta debate whether Maine should broaden eligibility for MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program, health-care policy experts came to Portland Monday to debate the same question. About 50 people turned out at the University of Southern Maine’s Wishcamper Center to hear a forum on the expansion of MaineCare. The panel […]
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Student-led campaign helps solidify support for Portland charter school
PORTLAND — After the Maine Charter Schools Commission asked Baxter Academy for Technology and Science supporters to demonstrate support for the school, one enterprising student rose to the challenge. Chris McCammon, now a freshman at Scarborough High School, brainstormed the idea for a fundraising campaign for the school. The project, called the 10 Day Campaign, sought […]
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Aquaponics startup outgrows Portland, heads to North Yarmouth
NORTH YARMOUTH — Fish waste is used by plants, which is converted by bacteria into nutrients for plants, which in turn filter clean and oxygenated water to be recirculated back to the fish. It’s the circle of life. That’s the gist of aquaponics, a symbiotic merging of aquaculture – through which fish and other aquatic animals […]
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Portland charter school reaches accord with ousted director; details sealed
AUGUSTA — A controversy-plagued Portland charter school that received preliminary approval Monday to open in the fall has reached an accord with its former executive director following his contentious ouster. The board of directors of Baxter Academy for Technology and Science and John Jaques, its primary founder and former executive director, announced Tuesday that they […]