PORTLAND — Nine Williams College students are in Portland to participate in an international learning experience by living with refugee families. As a part of the college’s Resettling Refugees in Maine winter study program, Jeffrey Thaler, a professor at the University of Maine School of Law and a Williams graduate, brought nine students to Portland to […]
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Maine Red Claws founder to join Cumberland Town Council
CUMBERLAND — An entepreneur who helped bring the Maine Red Claws professional basketball team to Portland will be the newest town councilor. Jon Jennings of Lantern Lane, who moved to Cumberland with his wife and daughter from Marblehead, Mass., in 2009, is expected to be appointed by the council at its Monday, Jan. 28, meeting. […]
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Electrical problem docks Casco Bay Lines ferry between Portland, Peaks
PORTLAND — The same day a mechanical failure knocked out car ferry service to Peaks Island – and two weeks after a ferry crashed into a pier in New York, injuring 74 people – Casco Bay Lines’ operations manager and City Councilor Nicholas Mavodones Jr. on Monday said ferry riders should feel safe knowing the vessels have […]
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Cumberland tightens website security after lapse
CUMBERLAND — After discovering the names and Social Security numbers of nearly 300 employees were displayed on its public website, the town is taking measures to ensure against a future security lapse. Town Manager Bill Shane told the town’s employees in a Jan. 10 letter that a 2008 document revealing the names and Social Security […]
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Freeport Town Council turnover continues with Arno resignation
FREEPORT — Freshmen town councilors will outnumber veterans after Councilor Kate Arno announced her resignation last week. Arno will attend her final meeting Tuesday. She is taking a job at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington, D.C. “This was an unexpected job opportunity; I didn’t see it on the horizon at all,” Arno said. […]
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Task force to join school renovation discussion in Portland
PORTLAND — The School Board has established a task force to assist in the planning of elementary school improvements. In November, the School Department hired Oak Point Associates, a Biddeford-based engineering firm, to create preliminary site plans, construction schedules and estimate costs for replacing Hall Elementary School and renovating Presumpscot, Lyseth, Reiche and Longfellow elementary schools. […]
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Downhill racers in Portland
Six-year-old Chae-Hee, whose family is originally from Korea, and her friend, 7-year-old Emma Murphy, enjoy a ride down the hill at Payson Park in Portland on Saturday, Jan. 19, during the ninth WinterKids Welcome to Winter Festival. The annual event is aimed at immigrant and refugee families who may be new to Maine and the […]
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Portland fire chief's priorities: Costs, fireboat, EMS
PORTLAND — “It’s been a really busy two weeks,” the city’s new fire chief, Jeroma LaMoria, said late Friday afternoon. Busy indeed. Since being sworn in as chief Jan. 3, LaMoria has been the point man for two high-profile news stories involving the Fire Department. On Jan. 8, an arbitrator reduced the suspensions of two firefighters […]
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Hundreds expected at tar sands protests in Portland, South Portland
PORTLAND — Hundreds of people from across New England are expected to gather this week in South Portland and Portland to protest plans to pump tar-sands oil from Canada to New England. The action will culminate with what organizers are calling “the biggest tar-sands protest the region has ever seen” on Saturday in Portland. On Wednesday, […]
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Portland MLK Jr. Day speakers urge action on racism, gun violence
PORTLAND — Nearly 700 people turned out Monday morning for the city’s 32nd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast, sponsored by the Portland branch of the NAACP. “I think we can liberate humanity from the myth of separate races,” keynote speaker Rinku Sen said, as the audience at Holiday Inn by the Bay stood and […]