In June, we looked at the Charles W. Thompson family of Ferry Village, including his sons Benjamin and Charles. We turn this week to the grocer Howard S. Thompson and his family of the Willard neighborhood. Howard Thompson was born in South Portland (then known as Cape Elizabeth) in 1875. His father Nathaniel was a […]

South Portland High School graduating senior, Courtney Lee, is the recipient of the 2021 South Portland Land Trust scholarship. Lee exhibited a passion for sustainability through participation in the Beekeeping, Environmental and Outing clubs at the high school. She plans to major in environmental science. South Portland Land Trust offers a $500 scholarship every year […]

Don’t usurp property owners’ rights To the editor, As a 40-plus-year South Portland property owner, I strongly object to the recent city government’s heavy-handed efforts to take over some of the rights of private property owners. The city’s interest in tree growth is a fine idea and should be directed to public property. However, there […]

Over the past year, I had the opportunity to become more acquainted with my television set. I indulged in a subscription to Disney+ and watched Lin Manuel-Miranda’s “Hamilton,” an exceptionally clever modern musical capturing the highlights of the life of Alexander Hamilton. Since then, I have been completely inspired and captured by the events of […]

Not only did our Red Riot Baseball team win South Portland’s first state championship in baseball since 1952 last weekend in dramatic fashion, South Portland High School alum Steven Smith, finished fourth in the men’s 20K race walk at the Olympic Trials on Saturday. His time was 1:33:54 (approximately 7:33 pace per mile), which is […]

SMCC to expand in-person class offerings for fall semester Southern Maine Community College is expanding its in-person class sizes and course offerings for the fall semester, opening up new opportunities for students to take more classes on campus. The college will allow full capacity in hundreds of in-person classes that previously had capacity limits to […]