Food service student Emma Campbell serves turkey while teacher Phil Divinsky, wearing the turkey hat, prepares another pan of food during a school-wide harvest meal at Portland Arts and Technology High School on Thursday, Nov. 21. Students in the food service program prepared 20 turkeys and 100 pies for 650 school students, staff and family […]
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'It's a very cool thing': Falmouth ice rink skating program warms hearts
FALMOUTH — An immense building with a frosty interior sits within the heart of the business district. Despite its massive size, however, it’s nearly lost in its surroundings. Thick vegetation obscures three of its sides. The rest is screened from view of U.S. Route 1 by the hulking mass of Wal-Mart. In fact, a person […]
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Unsung Hero: Aric Walton of Yarmouth, helping others to STRIVE
YARMOUTH — When he was a senior at the University of New Hampshire, Aric Walton took a grant-writing course, which required each student to write a practice grant proposal. Walton decided to write a real grant proposal to a real organization for a real purpose: to establish a wilderness program for at-risk youth in Newmarket, […]
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Maine unemployment rate lowest in five years
The state Labor Department says the rate fell to 6.7 percent in October.
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Portland man pleads guilty to sex trafficking
PORTLAND — A local man waived indictment and admitted Wednesday to taking three women from Maine to Massachusetts to work as prostitutes. Samuel C. Gravely, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of transportation in interstate commerce for prostitution, U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delhanty II said in press release. Gravely, who has been held without bail […]
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Can Christmas be far behind?
Portland’s Christmas tree makes its way up Congress Street to Monument Square on Thursday morning, Nov. 21. The 55-foot blue spruce was donated by Heather Bridges of South Portland, and will be lit with 3,000 LED lights in a ceremony at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 29.
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Portland businesses rally around victim of panhandler attack
PORTLAND — After Elvis Costello’s production manager, Milo Lewis, was badly beaten by a panhandler near Congress Square, the downtown business community is rallying around the victim, who was recuperating at Maine Medical Center. “We are doing what we can to let people know this is a caring community,” said Brad McCurtain, board president of […]
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Defense chief, at Bath Iron Works, touts stealth destroyer, Navy’s focus in Pacific
BATH — Speaking to hundreds of shipbuilders and crew members of the future USS Zumwalt, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said Thursday that the stealth warship is critical to the Navy’s renewed focus on the Pacific. The Zumwalt, which Hagel toured Thursday, is the first of three new stealth destroyers being built at Bath […]
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Small plane makes emergency landing on I-295 in Cumberland
CUMBERLAND — A small plane made an emergency landing in the southbound lanes of Interstate 295 on Thursday evening. The single-engine plane landed about 5 p.m., Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said in a news release. He said that the plane might have experienced engine trouble. The plane landed in Cumberland and […]
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Christmas tree sales return to Mill Creek Park in South Portland
SOUTH PORTLAND — The 51st annual Christmas tree sale held by the South Portland-Cape Elizabeth Rotary Club begins at 9 a.m. Friday, Nov. 29, in Mill Creek Park. Club member Kathy Cotter, who is supervising the tree sales, said in a news release that more than 2,000 Maine-grown trees have been ordered. Most trees will […]