PORTLAND — Some of the city’s police officers walked a new beat last week. Police recited their own poetry and performed a one-act play before a crowd of more than 50 at City Hall on Thursday, June 6, as part of a conference held in Portland by the New England Foundation for the Arts. The […]
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Portland seeks members for school budget task force
PORTLAND — The Portland School Board is seeking members for a new budget task force. The Budget and Revenue Advisory Task Force is assigned with identifying financial opportunities to support the school district, according to a district press release. The board wants members of the public interested in becoming part of the 13-member task force […]
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Man stabbed multiple times in Portland's Old Port
PORTLAND — A 22-year-old Portland man was stabbed multiple times and found on Wharf Street early Friday morning, Police Lt. James Sweatt said that afternoon. The man, discovered around 1:30 a.m. by police, was transported and admitted to Maine Medical Center, where his injuries were serious but not life-threatening. Police believe the man was assaulted […]
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South Portland council deadlocks on student computers, bond moves forward
SOUTH PORTLAND — The City Council may reconsider a Monday vote blocking the School Department purchase of iPads for high school students during a special workshop at 6 p.m., Monday, June 10 at the Community Center. By a 3-3 vote, with Councilor Al Livingston absent, councilors deadlocked on approving the School Department purchase of iPads […]
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Revised education budget gets Scarborough council approval
SCARBOROUGH — Whether it is too much, too little, or just right, the fate of the second attempt at a fiscal year 2014 education budget is now in the hands of voters. By a 6-1 vote, with Councilor Ed Blaise opposed, the Town Council Wednesday passed a $38.8 million budget already approved by the School Board […]
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South Portland group seeks to ban tar sands shipments
SOUTH PORTLAND — Definite plans to bring Canadian “tar sands” oil to the city are not in place. But an ordinance to ban storage of oil brought in by pipline or loading it onto tankers could be on the Nov. 5 city ballot. A petition drive by Concerned Citizens of South Portland was announced Thursday […]
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Shelf remains bare in search for South Portland food pantry
SOUTH PORTLAND — In January, South Portland Food Cupboard Executive Director Sybil Riemensnider was facing increased demand from clients and the need to find a new home. Almost half a year later, the situation is increasingly dire after the cupboard served more people than ever last month, and host site St. John the Evangelist Church […]
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Cape explores options in gun club dispute
CAPE ELIZABETH — A lawyer may soon clarify the town’s role in a long-running dispute between a shooting range and its neighbors. So far, the town has skirted any involvement in licensing or regulating the Spurwink Rod & Gun Club, which has been a fixture on Sawyer Road since the 1960s. That stance could change, […]
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Nuisance property vote postponed in South Portland
SOUTH PORTLAND — While saying they were unhappy about eight years of construction work on Craig Patterson’s Wythburn Road home, City Councilors on Monday decided to wait until at least July 1 before deciding if it is a public nuisance. The postponement of the order allows Patterson, his lawyer Michael Vaillancourt and city Code Enforcement […]
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Torch is passed for Special Olympics
Kathy MacVane, widow of former South Portland Police Officer Peter MacVane, leads South Portland, Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth police officers up Main Street in South Portland Wednesday as part of the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run to benefit Maine Special Olympics. Peter MacVane, a 34-year veteran of the department, volunteered with Special Olympics, including as […]