PORTLAND — The City Council on Monday voted unanimously to move ahead with plans for reconfiguring one of the city’s most congested, most confusing and most dangerous intersections. Councilors adopted recommendations of the Transportation, Sustainability and Energy Committee to overhaul the six-legged junction of Falmouth Street and Brighton and Deering avenues, near the University of […]
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Kielty resigns from Freeport seat on RSU 5 School Board
FREEPORT — An original member of the Regional School Unit 5 Board of Directors has resigned. Brenda Kielty, who has served on the board since the RSU was formed in 2009, announced her resignation on July 29. Kielty said she resigned because she is moving from Freeport to Portland next month. Her term on the […]
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Portland council sets Sept. 4 referendum on revised school budget
PORTLAND — The city will hold a supplemental school budget referendum Sept. 4. The referendum approved Monday by the City Council will ask voters to accept an additional $1.9 million in state aid. If approved, school officials said they will use the money to cover about $1.4 million in new costs for teacher retirements and […]
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Portland may relax food-truck rules, restrictions
PORTLAND — Food truck operators could find it easier to do business in the city, based on feedback City Manager Mark Rees has requested from them. The City Council last year approved an ordinance that established operating areas, fees and other regulations for mobile food vendors. The ordinance restricts the trucks to some city parks, […]
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Portland street safety improvements on schedule for start of school year
PORTLAND — Construction projects designed to create safer walking and biking paths on city streets are nearly complete. Throughout much of the summer, the East Deering, East End and North Deering neighborhood sidewalks and crossings have been receiving enhancements as part of a project called Safe Routes to Schools. Crews have repaved, extended and widened […]
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Two Portland law firms merge
PORTLAND — Two of the city’s law firms have merged, according to an Aug. 1 press release. Verrill Dana, whose main office is at One Portland Square, has merged with Friedman Gaythwaite Wolf, a Pearl Street-based firm of 13 lawyers specializing in litigation. With the merger – the first in its 150-year-old history – Verrill […]
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Expect delays on Valley, Presumpscot streets
PORTLAND — Traffic will be restricted along Valley and Presumpscot streets this week while the city repaves portions of the roads, City Hall spokeswoman Nicole Clegg said Monday. Starting today and continuing through Thursday, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day, one block of Valley Street will be closed between A and Congress streets. […]
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Unsung Hero: Diedre Sileo of South Portland, filling a void
SOUTH PORTLAND — Life was good for Diedre Sileo in 2005. The Bath native had started her career as an x-ray technician, spending three months at a time at places around the U.S.: Hawaii, Florida, South Carolina, Kansas and Boston. She then returned to her home state in 1984 and began working in occupational medicine. […]
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Foul play not suspected in death of Bath man
BATH — The cause of death of a 39-year-old Bath man, whose body was discovered by his girlfriend Sunday afternoon, remains undetermined. Police believe Joel Theriault died overnight Saturday in his Lilac Street home bed, where he was later found, and that his 4-year-old child was unsupervised in the residence until her mother, Theriault’s girlfriend, […]
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Yarmouth developers behind purchase of prime Portland waterfront property
PORTLAND — One of the buyers of The Portland Co. complex on the city’s eastern waterfront is Jim Brady, a well-known Yarmouth developer behind such projects as the planned boutique hotel in the former Portland Press Herald building. Brady on Monday said he is a major partner in a group that purchased the 10-acre waterfront […]