PORTLAND — Nearly 100 people jammed a public meeting at East End Community School Monday to discuss plans for a 400-seat theater that would adjoin the St. Lawrence Arts Center on Munjoy Hill. Opinions differed as sharply as the theater’s modern look would contrast with the former church’s 19th-century architecture. The Friends of the St. […]
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Homeless student transportation strains school budgets
PORTLAND — It’s a scene vividly described last month by South Portland School Superintendent Suzanne Godin. “If you go out on I-295 between 7 and 7:15 a.m., you will see lines of school buses heading north,” Godin said during a joint workshop of city councilors and school board members. The buses are not always full, […]
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Brunswick to issue marriage licenses Dec. 29
BRUNSWICK — The town clerk’s office will open for three hours Saturday, Dec. 29, for people seeking marriage licenses. That is the day same-sex marriage becomes legal in Maine under a statewide referendum passed in November. Marriages will only be licensed by appointment that day every half hour between 9 a.m.-noon. Appointments can be made […]
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Portland-Auburn passenger rail is subject of meeting
PORTLAND — The public will get a chance to learn more about a proposed Portland-to-Auburn passenger train line at a meeting Wednesday afternoon. Sponsored by the Maine Rail Transit Coalition and the Sierra Club of Maine, the meeting will focus on the long-studied transit link that would shuttle passengers 29 miles along existing tracks between […]
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Workshop on North Yarmouth development plan likely in January
NORTH YARMOUTH — A potential four-phase economic development plan for the town center could go to a workshop next month. The Economic Development and Sustainability Committee, which presented the proposal to the Board of Selectmen Dec. 4, has gathered ideas for how to make the most of 114 acres of town-owned land in the village […]
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Falmouth Town Hall hours adjusted
FALMOUTH — Town Hall will be closed for Christmas on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 24 and 25. Because of the holiday closure, Town Hall, which is normally closed Fridays, will be open on Friday, Dec. 28, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Portland launches technology business park
PORTLAND — Workers have broken ground on Portland Technology Park, a planned 26-acre site off Rand Road that would house offices and research facilities for the region’s growing life-sciences industry. The first phrase of construction includes installation of utilities and building the initial stretch of a 1,500-foot road. That phase is expected to be finished […]
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Film festival seeks student entries
PORTLAND — The Portland Children’s Film Festival is looking for submissions for the Young Film Makers Contest that takes place in conjunction with the festival April 4-7, 2013. The contest is open to students from kindergarten through high school from Portland and surrounding communities. Films may be of any style, but can only be three minutes […]
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Longfellow School gets Blue Ribbon nod
PORTLAND — Longfellow Elementary School is one of three schools in Maine to be nominated by the state Department of Education as a 2013 National Blue Ribbon School. The National Blue Ribbon School program is an honor bestowed by the U.S. Department of Education to recognize public and private schools whose students achieve at a very […]
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The Wreaths Across America convoy of trucks headed to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia passes under the Stars and Stripes as it arrives at Cheverus High School in Portland on Sunday evening, where hundreds of people attended a ceremony in the school gym to welcome and bless the wreaths. The Wreaths Across America program, conceived […]