PORTLAND — City Manager Mark Rees has ordered OccupyMaine to leave Lincoln Park by 8 a.m. Monday.  The eviction notice was posted at the Pearl Street entrance to the park early Thursday afternoon. The city extended the protesters’ notice by about a day after a meeting with John Branson, OccupyMaine’s attorney. City spokeswoman Nicole Clegg […]

BRUNSWICK — Not having a place to sleep at night is probably what most people consider when they think about homelessness. But finding somewhere to spend the day – especially during bad weather – can be even more difficult. “Most places have a low tolerance for homelessness,” said Dave Deady, who has been living at the […]

SCARBOROUGH — Sprague Corp. on Wednesday pulled its proposal for a new park on 62 acres of beachfront property near Black Point Road. “It really was an economic decision,” Seth Sprague, president of family owned Sprague Corp., said in an interview Wednesday. “We were trying to project what our investment was going to be to […]

BRUNSWICK — Ten years after Barbara Ehrenreich cleaned the toilets of some of Maine’s wealthiest residents while researching “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” the author returned to the state to reflect on how the plight of minimum-wage workers has changed. Ehrenreich was invited to speak as part of the Brunswick-Bowdoin Community […]

PORTLAND — OccupyMaine protesters were dealt a major setback Wednesday when a Maine Superior Court judge ruled that their tent city in Lincoln Park is not a form of constitutionally protected speech. In a press release Wednesday afternoon, the city said it would serve the group Thursday with an eviction notice that will give the […]

TOPSHAM — With a $40,000 grant in hand, the town is another step closer to turning the vision of a waterfront park into a reality. The Board of Selectmen accepted the coastal planning funds from the Maine State Planning Office on Jan. 19. The panel also formed an ad hoc citizens committee to develop design […]

BRUNSWICK — Police are asking for the public’s help to find a man, believed to be schizophrenic, who has been missing for more than two weeks. Jason Reil, 33, was reported missing by his family on Jan. 25, but was last seen Jan. 12. Deputy Police Chief Marc Hagan described Reil as 5 feet 9 […]

BATH — The Hyde School’s proposal to build a new dormitory will again go before the Planning Board on Tuesday, Feb. 7. The private high school’s request for site plan approval was tabled last November after the board asked for more information on how Hyde would mitigate storm water flow from the new building into […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — The Winter Festival planned for this weekend at Mill Creek and Thomas Knight parks has been postponed for two weeks. Lack of snow, uncertain ice conditions and temperatures expected to stay in the 40s for the rest of the week made the bulk of activities planned impossible, said Dan Mooers, a South […]

BRUNSWICK — Love, friendship and romance are the themes of the ninth annual celebration of Brunswick’s famous poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The nearly month-long event, sponsored by the Brunswick Downtown Association, kicks off on Saturday, Feb. 4, with a community tea with Maine women poets. Maggie Finch and Jerry Day Mason will read and discuss […]