SCARBOROUGH — Public works departments from Cape Elizabeth, Gorham, Portland, Scarborough, Standish, Windham and Yarmouth will show their stuff from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at the Gateway Shoppes in Scarborough. In celebration of National Public Works Week, crews from the departments will greet visitors, give demonstrations, and allow visitors to explore dump trucks, graders and […]

PORTLAND — City Councilors on Monday asked staff for more information about alternatives to a proposed 40 percent hike in public parking garage hourly fees. The current budget proposal includes a 40 percent rate hike for hourly parking in city-owned parking garages on Spring and Elm streets. The fee would increase from $1.25 an hour […]

PORTLAND — Drivers will soon be able to pay for on-street parking with credit and debit cards in parts of the city, thanks to new electronic meters being installed this week. The parking division began placing 18 solar-powered pay stations throughout the city on Monday. Like other, mechanical meters in Portland, the new pay stations […]

PORTLAND — Instead of closing 34 rural post offices in Maine, the U.S. Postal Service announced plans to reduce the hours of 244 rural post offices across the state. Post offices now open for retail business eight hours per day will see their hours reduced to four or six per day. Some will be open […]

PORTLAND — Police Department Lt. Gary Rogers was promoted to commander, the department’s third highest rank, on May 11. Rogers joined the department in 1988 and has served as the Special Reaction Team commander and most recently as detective lieutenant in charge of the criminal investigations division. As commander, Rogers will oversee staffing and direct […]

YARMOUTH — While his legacy may be tied to a venerable elm called Herbie, Frank Knight’s town roots went far deeper, his son said Tuesday. “He was always working for the betterment of the community and people in it,” Dick Knight said, after his father died Monday of natural causes at age 103. A celebration […]

YARMOUTH — Council Chairman Steve Woods summed it up in four words: “Yarmouth is Erv Bickford,” Woods said Monday after the death of longtime councilor and community leader Erving H. “Erv” Bickford. Bickford, 79, died Saturday at his Westcustogo Point home after a long illness. A celebration of his life will be held 4-6 p.m. […]

SCARBOROUGH — Town officials are preparing for an ethics hearing triggered by allegations against Councilor Richard Sullivan. Town Manager Tom Hall said he is drafting a procedure for the hearing, the first since the town adopted new rules and regulations for town councilors in 2009. Those rules provide for a process that could result in […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Starting this week, the weekly South Portland Farmers Market will do business on Hinckley Drive, next to Mill Creek Park.  City Councilors voted 5-2 Monday to move the public market from Thomas Knight Park, where it spent its inaugural season last year. Councilor Rosemarie De Angelis and Mayor Patti Smith opposed the […]