Greater Portland Bulletin Board Friday 1/11 El Centro Latino, general meeting, 7 p.m., 68 Washington Ave., Portland, 749-8823. Call for Volunteers Ongoing ActionBasedCare.org needs volunteers to expand organization, ABC believes in empowerment through sailing, and action-based activities to relieve depression, check website or 831-4151. Allegiance Hospice is looking for volunteers to visit patients under hospice […]
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Arts Calendar: Jan. 9-20
Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Musica de Filia, auditions for several all-female choirs, Jan. 2-22, 550 Forest Ave., Portland, 807-2158. Tuesday 1/15 The Portland Community Chorus will be holding auditions for its spring session. The PCC is one of the largest community choruses in New England with more than 140 members. To schedule […]
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Policy Wonk: Corporate welfare in Maine: Alive, well — and growing
Fourteen years ago, investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele did a lengthy, four-week series for Time magazine that estimated the federal government “shells out $125 billion a year in corporate welfare.” That number is much larger today. Recently, Louise Story of The New York Times wrote a series of articles documenting that […]
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The Universal Notebook: Peeved at my own incompetence
Nothing puts me in a foul mood faster than something I can’t fix. That means I’m in a fuming funk a lot of the time, not fit to live with until whatever is broken is either repaired or replaced. At the moment it’s the #*(^%$! roof. The roof over my sunroom office has been leaking […]
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The View From Away: There's snow end in sight
OK, show of hands: who has shoveled enough snow? Come on, get ’em up. I refuse to believe that I am the only one. And please, no homespun Downeast folk wisdom. “You call this snow? We can still see the windows on our house! Longfellow wrote ‘The Song Of Hiawatha’ in deeper snow than this, […]
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Worth the wait…McAuley solves Deering, extends win streak to 34
PORTLAND—For 18 hours, McAuley junior Allie Clement and her teammates could do nothing but wait. After Friday night’s highly anticipated girls’ basketball Stevens Avenue showdown against rival Deering was suspended five minutes in due to condensation on the floor, the Lions faced a deficit, be it ever so modest (one point), but through a long […]
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Anti-abortion, abortion rights demonstrators duel in Portland
PORTLAND — A business owner rallied an abortion rights demonstration on Friday to counter the regular appearance on his street of anti-abortion protesters he called “obnoxious.” The dueling demonstrations set the stage for chanting, arguing and sometimes yelling, as dozens of Planned Parenthood supporters turned out in opposition to what have become weekly protests outside […]
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Unsung Hero: Janet Kandoian, the indomitable 'Miss K'
SOUTH PORTLAND — The year: 1971. The setting: a fourth-grade class at the Willard School. The question from one of the students to the young, new teacher: “Just how old are you, anyway?” Janet Kandoian, known as “Miss K” to many students, well remembers her first class and that particular question. “It was a hard […]
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Portland taps Virginia official for powerful, new 2nd-in-command post
PORTLAND — City Manager Mark Rees has chosen a veteran public official from Richmond, Va., to step into a new, powerful position in Maine’s largest city. As Portland’s first deputy city manager – an influential job that replaces what had previously been two assistant city manager positions – Sheila Hill-Christian would directly oversee a range of the […]
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Like father, like son: Portland's new fire chief goes to work
Portland’s new fire chief, Jerome LaMoria, right, receives his badge from his father, a former Vermont fire chief, after taking the oath of office in City Hall on Jan. 3. LaMoria, a 25-year firefighting veteran in Prince George’s County, Md., replaced Frederick LaMontagne, who retired as chief in April. LaMoria’s selection, announced last month, followed […]