TOPSHAM — The town will hold a public meeting Thursday, July 25, to discuss two potential tax increment financing districts. The TIFs could be voted on at a special Town Meeting in September. An affordable senior housing TIF would be created for River Landing, a proposed three-floor apartment building on the Elm Street site of […]
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SAD 51 board OKs new principal for Greely Middle School
CUMBERLAND — Mar-E Trebilcock, assistant principal at Greely High School for the past three years, was unanimously hired Monday by the School Administrative District 51 Board of Directors as principal at Greely Middle School. The Topsham resident replaces Kimberly Brandt, who left the job to become assistant superintendent of schools in Regional School Unit 16. […]
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Cumberland County Civic Center hires Philadelphia firm to sell naming rights
PORTLAND — What’s in a name? For the Cumberland County Civic Center, potentially millions of dollars. So the Civic Center Board of Trustees is getting some professional help in selling rights to rename the arena, Board Chairman Neal Pratt said July 12. The board has retained Front Row Marketing Services to act as an agent […]
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City Council puts legal recreational use of marijuana in Portland voters' hands
PORTLAND — Voters will get to decide on Nov. 5 whether the city should legalize the recreational use of marijuana by adults. The City Council on Monday decided, 5-1, to table a proposed ordinance that would allow people over 21 to possess up to 2.5 ounces of the drug for recreational use. Councilor David Marshall […]
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Spreading the Love: Cupcake bakers re-enter Portland food truck arena
PORTLAND — Love Cupcakes, known for the green-and-pink 1960s trailer that has become a Route 1 fixture in Falmouth, is expanding to the Old Port this summer with a new food truck. Again. Owners Anna and Joey Turcotte tested the Portland food truck waters in 2012, the first business to do so after the city […]
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Portland forum seeks input on state's school funding model
PORTLAND — As part of a study of the state’s school subsidy formula, a firm commissioned by the Legislature will host a public meeting on the issue Thursday from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Casco Bay High School. The Essential Services and Programs funding model, used to determine how much money the state provides to local school systems, […]
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Portland outlaws median-strip loitering, panhandling
PORTLAND — After hearing testimony from nearly two dozen residents, the City Council on Monday unanimously voted into law a ban on loitering in street medians – a measure critics have said is a thinly disguised attempt to stamp out panhandling in the city. The ban, which was proposed a year ago, but failed in […]
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As if you need an excuse to dance …
Some of the hundreds of participants in The Dance Mile, held Saturday evening, July 13, in Portland to raise money for a downtown art installation by the Maine Center for Creativity. The parade of dancers, behind a DJ on a platform truck, covered about a mile of closed downtown streets before ending with a dance […]
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'Meet the Mayor' session gives Portland residents chance to query Brennan
PORTLAND — In a first meeting of its kind for City Hall, Mayor Michael Brennan sat down with about two dozen residents July 11 and shared a free-flowing discussion of topics ranging from Congress Square Plaza to the cost of city trash bags. The informal meeting, dubbed “Meet the Mayor,” was intended “to simply provide […]
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Portland City Council election attracts several potential candidates
PORTLAND — With less than four months before voters elect three new city councilors, competition for the seats is heating up. By Monday, nine potential candidates, including two incumbents, had obtained nomination petitions for the Nov. 5 City Council election, according to the city clerk. Five candidates, including incumbent Councilor Jill Duson, of Pennell Avenue, […]