PORTLAND — The nominees for 2014 Maine Teacher of the Year include a teacher from King Middle School. Karen MacDonald began working for Portland Public Schools in 1978 as an ed tech. She later moving to the gifted and talented programs at Longfellow Elementary School and Lincoln Middle School, and fourth and fifth grades at the […]

PORTLAND — Call it McFuel. While activists, businesses and City Hall have recently clashed over the possibility of using tar-sands oil to heat buildings and power vehicles, a tiny Portland company is producing environment-friendly fuels from the grease found in fast-food hamburgers. Maine Standard Biofuels refines diesel fuel from the used cooking oil restaurants discard […]

PORTLAND — The University of New England is partnering with the Portland Community Health Center in a program designed to better prepare students to work with under-served populations across the city and beyond. “It really is a project that is designed to improve the health of immigrants and refugees in Portland and it could be translated […]

PORTLAND — “Huge.” “Transformative.” “A game-changer.” Those are words officials used in reacting to the announcement last week that an Icelandic container shipping company, Eimskip, will begin sailing out of the International Marine Terminal, near the Casco Bay Bridge. The company will move its North American headquarters from Norfolk, Va., to Portland and has signed […]

PORTLAND — In response to Gov. Paul Lepage’s $12.6 million curtailment order for Maine public schools, the School Department has come up with a plan to cut just over $870,000 from its current-year operating budget. But the curtailment will also affect planning for the 2013-2014 fiscal year. Superintendent Emmanuel Caulk said he expects the 2014 fiscal […]