FALMOUTH — The second online auction to benefit the Falmouth Cumberland Community Chamber Scholarship Fund begins this week. Bidding begins Thursday and runs through April 26. The chamber also will host a Business After Five event on Wednesday, April 25, from 5-7 p.m. at Gorham Savings Bank in West Falmouth to allow last-minute online bidding. […]

YARMOUTH — The field of candidates seeking to replace state Rep. Melissa Walsh Innes, D-Yarmouth, thinned last week with the withdrawal of Democrat Dennis Welsh. Welsh, a professional photographer who has served on the Yarmouth Pedestrian and Bicycling Committee, cited personal reasons for his decision to withdraw from the District 107 race. Welsh’s decision leaves […]

PORTLAND — Several local organizations will use a $68,000 grant to identify and reduce the barriers to the full inclusion of immigrant and refugee youth in greater Portland. The Hudson Foundation grant will allow LearningWorks to partner with The Institute for Civic Leadership and Steve Wessler, founder and former director of the Center for Preventing […]

PORTLAND — A tangle of fat electric wire tentacles, maybe a dozen, reached out from a  street-side utility pole toward Coffee By Design’s Washington Avenue roastery, starkly visible from the second floor conference room where Mary Allen Lindemann sat explaining why, by week’s end, the local caffeine experts will scarcely have need for them. On […]

PORTLAND — No matter what gimmicks, marketing schemes or luck you fold into your dough, Rick Fournier says selling doughnuts comes down to just one thing: flavor. So what makes his Tony’s Donuts such a long-lived success, despite stiff competition from local bakeries and national chains? “I’ve got the taste,” Fournier said. “I know what […]

PORTLAND — Stephen Rogers was named principal of Lyman Moore Middle School, returning to a position he previously held for nearly a decade. Rogers, who has been interim principal since July, was the Portland High School assistant principal from 2006 to 2011. Before that he was principal at Lyman Moore for nine years. Rogers’ appointment […]

PORTLAND — Iqra Noor didn’t know until the night before that the naturalization ceremony she planned with her classmates would feature an extra special new citizen: her mother. Noor, an 11-year-old sixth-grader at Lyman Moore Middle School, applauded alongside her classmates as 36 people from 19 countries took the oath of U.S. citizenship on Friday, […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Music is Christina Teale’s passion. “I couldn’t live without music,” she said. “It’s my thing.”  For the last few years, Teale’s passion has been applied to numerous behind-the-scenes tasks for the Portland Symphony Orchestra. At home, she has another major passion: dogs. Tiger, a bouncy border terrier, greets visitors eagerly at the […]

PORTLAND — Southern Maine residents have the chance to give back to the planet in a unique way this year on Earth Day. The Interlocal Storm Water Working Group, a group representing 14 communities, has joined forces with the Cumberland County Soil and Water Conservation District to put on the inaugural Urban Runoff 5k road race […]