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Portland food truck era begins with cupcakes; will it end there, too?
PORTLAND — A month after regulations began allowing food trucks to operate in Portland, the city’s first licensed mobile food vendor planned to open for business Wednesday. Love Cupcakes will sell its gourmet treats from a renovated, 1960s-vintage travel-trailer on a small, privately owned space at the corner of Center and Commercial streets. Previously, the […]
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Community Calendar: Sept. 19-30
Greater Portland Benefits Beards B-cause, participants grow beards from September to March to benefit the Cancer Community Center, visit MyStacheFightsCancer.com, [email protected]. Coffee by Design is selling Beans of Peace community coffee throughout Sept. to benefit the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project. Thursday 9/20 “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” musical theater performance, 7:30 p.m., to benefit […]
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Snow removal rules back before Portland City Council
PORTLAND — At its meeting Wednesday night, the City Council will tackle snow removal requirements and changes in an agreement to sell a Bayside property to a private developer. Among the agenda items is a proposed amendment to the city code, defining exceptions to the requirement that residential property owners remove snow from adjacent sidewalks. […]
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Fire closes Hall Elementary School in Portland for at least this week
PORTLAND — Hall Elementary School will be closed through the end of the week due to an early morning fire Monday. School officials on Tuesday said they are looking into the possibility of moving students into an alternate learning center as early as Wednesday. They said they expected to have more information on the length of […]
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Police: Suspects stole IDs, drained bank accounts, read The Forecaster
LEWISTON — A man and a woman making their way down the Eastern Seaboard are draining bank accounts by stealing identities and bank information from motor vehicles, police said. Authorities in New Jersey traced the suspects to Maine after seeing the front page of The Forecaster weekly newspaper the male driver was reading while waiting […]
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SMCC-USM deal aims to bolster Maine’s tourism workforce
SOUTH PORTLAND — Officials from Southern Maine Community College and the University of Southern Maine hope a new agreement aligning the schools’ hospitality and tourism programs will help build the workforce in Maine’s largest industry. “This is critical to the tourism industry, which is Maine’s largest economic sector,” SMCC President Ronald Cantor told members of […]
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Portland residents say another USM-area intersection needs attention
PORTLAND — Just a block away from a notoriously dangerous six-way intersection in the city’s Oakdale neighborhood, another intersection is threatening drivers and pedestrians, residents say. City Councilor David Marshall and city engineers met with them Sept. 12 to discuss ways of improving safety at the corner of Falmouth and Oakdale streets. The streets meet […]
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South Portland artist helps bring outdoors in at Portland memory-care facility
PORTLAND — Inspired by her grandmother’s experience, a South Portland artist will bring the outdoors inside for residents of a Merrymeeting Drive memory-care facility. Francine Schrock’s grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and spent time in a facility like Fallbrook Woods, which is off Allen Avenue. She said that when she was approached by Fallbrook Woods […]
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Another milestone for former Adams School property on Portland's Munjoy Hill
PORTLAND — City officials and neighborhood residents fondly recalled the Marada Adams Elementary School, but said they look forward to its replacement during a Sept. 13 ceremony on Munjoy Hill. The ceremony marked the groundbreaking for a complex of 16 affordable condominiums that will be built on the site of the now-demolished school, bordered by […]