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A Window on the Past – Elinor S. Moody’s Healtharium and the Dyer and Small florists on Evans Street

We’ve written previously about the grand home that Henry Nutter built on Evans Street. The home would later take on the address of 93 Evans St. There were no side streets back then, but the home was located on what now would be the corner of Evans Street and Romano Road. Let’s take a look […]

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Our Sustainable City – Sustainability in the arts

Art is historically and culturally significant to our ever-changing society. Organizations like the Portland Museum of Art and South Portland’s Public Arts Committee stand to preserve and share art for future generations to understand and learn from. While not a new concept in the arts, sustainability in systems from energy efficiency and climate control to […]

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Our Sustainable City – Blown away: The potential of offshore wind in Maine

Maine Won’t Wait’s goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – 45 percent by 2030 and 80 percent by 2050 – and transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 is fast approaching. Energy generation across the state is changing rapidly as older technologies are decommissioned and more renewable technologies expand their generation capacity. What better […]

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A Window on the Past – Walter and Frank Nutter of the upper Pleasantdale neighborhood

We continue our story about the Nutter family this week. Let’s take a look at Eben and Martha Nutter’s sons, Walter and Frank. Both men, while trying their hand at some other occupations for a time, spent most of their years working in agriculture, farming the Nutter land in the area around where South Portland […]