SOUTH PORTLAND — The sign welcoming people to South Portland sits in a flower bed on Broadway, barely a stone’s throw from the Casco Bay Bridge. As people enter this city these days, they are greeted by a second sign nearby, one reminding them fireworks are illegal in the city. The reminder could be displayed […]

PORTLAND — The Abyssinian Meeting House, the third oldest black congregational church in the nation, held a reception last weekend to mark the African American holiday of Juneteenth and introduce new interns.  Almost 20 years have passed since the founding of the Committee to Restore the Abyssinian in 1996. Committee founder Deborah Cummings Khadourai was present Saturday to […]

PORTLAND — In the dental hygiene clinic on the University of New England campus, Chelsea Angevine bore down on a set of troubled teeth with serious, but uncertain, determination Monday morning, drilling and filling a “cavity” for the first time. When she finished the procedure, Angevine, of Norway, stepped back and pulled off her surgical […]

FALMOUTH — Garden Month at the Falmouth Memorial Library comes to an end this weekend with the first Falmouth Garden Tour. The tour will feature 12 gardens around town, most of which have never been open to the public. The gardens on the tour will not be revealed until the day of the event. According to […]

The schooner Bowdoin heads out of the harbor at South Freeport as part of Freeport Historical Society’s first Harraseeket Heritage Days celebration on Saturday, June 23. The schooner offered deck tours and two scheduled cruises, although a late-day sail was cancelled because of threatening weather. Adam Sharp of Yarmouth takes a photo of his 2-year-old […]

PORTLAND — The School Department’s central kitchen, an industrial-scale food preparation operation at the former Reed School, was quiet on Friday as Food Service Director Ron Adams talked about the summer meals program. Three days later, Adams’ department would open three of the four locations it runs in between school semesters as part of a […]

PORTLAND — Starting July 1, recipients of municipal welfare will see a 10 percent cut in maximum aid and a reduction in the number of months they can receive rent assistance in the following year. Those cuts are the result of efforts made by the Legislature to maintain essential services to the state’s lowest wage […]

“Haunted, burnished passion echoes through these deft and beautifully alert lyrics. Margaret Rockwell Finch uses poetry’s traditional means to ends that are purely her own. From time’s quarrels, she has fashioned poems that resonate with poetry’s timelessness.” — Baron Wormser BATH — On some mornings, poet Maggie Finch said, she’ll wake up with an idea […]

FALMOUTH — A South Portland man faces a felony charge after a June 22 crash that killed a Cumberland woman. It was the first of two deadly accidents in Falmouth in as many days. Lt. John Kilbride of the Falmouth Police Department on Wednesday said Matthew Blanchard, 24, was arrested Tuesday in connection with the crash […]