Time for a dog park is now To the editor, The South Portland City Council dealt with the issue of dogs in Hinckley Park on Tuesday night, May 3. The issues here are similar to other places, particularly Willard Beach. The issue of voice control is not reasonable. The only dogs fully under voice control […]

As we continue to delve into the ice harvesting businesses of South Portland, we take a look this week at the operations of Royal R. Burnham. Born in 1838 in Stroudwater Village (Westbrook), Royal Burnham learned the ins and outs of the ice business while employed for D.W. Clark for over 15 years. In 1871, […]

Southern Maine Community College kicked off its 75th anniversary celebration April 30 with on-campus planting ceremonies to honor its legacy of transforming people and communities through education and training. Small groups of students, faculty members, administrators, alumni and community partners planted flowering shrubs and trees in simultaneous ceremonies at SMCC’s South Portland campus and Midcoast […]

It’s fascinating to look at the ice business in the years before electric refrigeration. From the harvesting of ice from ponds and rivers, the storage of ice in large ice houses filled with sawdust, and the eventual delivery of ice blocks by the “ice man,” right into the ice boxes in people’s homes, it was […]

The South Portland War Veterans’ Memorial Association announced last week that it has canceled plans for a Memorial Day parade. The group applied for a parade permit with the city of South Portland on March 31. “We received a reply from the city COVID Committee that stated, ‘Due to concerns about crowd density and crowd […]