PORTLAND — A portion of Baxter Boulevard will be closed for up to eight months starting Wednesday, as the Department of Public Services breaks ground for two underground storm-water conduits designed to reduce sewage overflow into Back Cove. The stretch of the boulevard from Vannah Avenue to Bates Street was scheduled to be closed to […]

PORTLAND — As a part of its international focus, Deering High School has partnered with the University of New England to offer students a more international education. By being the first school in New England to join the International Studies Schools Network (ISSN), Deering has added a more global focus to its curriculum. Through this program […]

PORTLAND — Mayor Michael Brennan recited a roster of achievements and challenges Monday night in Portland’s first “state of the city” address. The address is required by the 2010 City Charter amendment that created Brennan’s office; he is the city’s first popularly elected mayor since 1923. “A lot of what I’ve been doing is trying […]

PORTLAND — The Portland-Auburn area ranks No. 8 among the nation’s “best restaurant cities,” The Huffington Post announced Friday. The ranking is based on the area’s ratio of restaurants per capita of 23.5 – nearly as many per person as New York City (No. 5), which has 24.4. The previous week, a City Hall press […]

PORTLAND — Timing is everything, the saying goes, and Maurice “Mo” Allen became homeless at one of the worst times: winter. Allen, 33, is a Portland resident who lost his restaurant job in the fall. After struggling to pay his bills, he said, he had to vacate his apartment in December. In January, he started […]

PORTLAND — Despite freezing temperatures, hundreds of people turned out Saturday to oppose the possible piping of  “tar sands” crude oil through Maine. Organizers called the rally the largest anti-tar sands protest in the Northeast. They said it demonstrated widespread opposition to potential plans by oil companies to run tar sands oil through a 236-mile […]