PORTLAND — Beginning this week and continuing through January, the School Department and its architecture and engineering consultants will hold a series of public charrettes to discuss ideas for improving the city’s elementary school buildings. At each of the charrettes, Oak Point Associates will share an overview of project goals. After participants have the opportunity […]
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Students present video on waste water study
PORTLAND — Students who spent several weeks studying waste water and treatment concepts will present a video on the importance of the subject on Friday, Jan. 4. The showing will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the King Middle School Library, 92 Deering Ave. The video was created by Jill Roland and Dave Grant’s seventh-grade class as […]
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Proposed Cutter Street redesign plan ready
PORTLAND — The city will unveil a proposal next week for improving pedestrian safety at Cutter Street and the Eastern Promenade. City planners are working to redesign the intersection and reduce its width so that vehicle traffic is better controlled and pedestrians can cross more safely. The current crosswalk at Cutter Street stretches for 100 feet […]
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Community Calendar: Jan. 2-13
Greater Portland Bulletin Board Wednesday 1/2 Scarborough Historical Society meeting, 7:30 p.m., 647 U.S. Route 1, Scarborough, [email protected]. Friday 1/4 Freeport First Friday, music and three course dinner, Freeport Community Center, 53 Depot St., Freeport, reservations: 865-3985, $18. Saturday 1/5 Maine Labor Unions, genealogy meeting, 12:30 p.m., Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, […]
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Abby's Road: There is good amid all the bad
It can be hard to celebrate what we have when the holidays are dominated with news of what we have lost. On Thanksgiving, when Falmouth lost a beloved second-grade teacher I did not know, I mourned an absence that I had never counted on as a presence. After Thanksgiving, when my in-laws lost a baby […]
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Short Relief: A stitch in time costs about a grand
Early in life, my greatest talent appeared to be breaking glass. I went through glass tables, glass windows, and glass doors, and I have the scars to show for it. I was a regular at the Englewood Hospital Emergency Room. Fortunately, my across-the-street neighbors were a couple of doctors with four children. This was convenient […]
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The Universal Notebook: Slaughter of the innocents
Who or what is to blame for the slaughter of the innocents in Newtown, Conn.? Columbine? Tucson? Omaha? Virginia Tech? Brookfield? Meridian? Lancaster? You don’t want to think about such horrors anymore than I do, but we have no choice. The simple answer is that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was the insane act […]
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Arts Calendar: Jan. 2-13
Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Musica de Filia, auditions for several all-female choirs, Jan. 2-22, 550 Forest Ave, Portland, 807-2158. Books & Authors Friday 1/11 Local Author Series: Norman Beaupre, 12-1 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700, ext. 723. Film Wednesday 1/9 “Escape the Fire: The Fight to Rescue American […]
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'We finally feel equal': Maine's first married gay couple ties the knot at Portland City Hall
PORTLAND — The first gay couple to be married in the state of Maine took their vows in a short ceremony in the city clerk’s office at approximately 12:25 a.m. Saturday. “We finally feel equal and happy to live in Maine,” said Steven Bridges, who married Michael Snell less than a half-hour after same sex […]
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Iconic career comes to a close for Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Her decision to wear purple was not by design. She wasn’t trying to make a political fashion statement. It just worked out that way, she said. “No, you’re talking about being a purple state or something,” U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, said on the day of her farewell speech to her colleagues […]