Greater Portland Council of Governments
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2025
GPCOG awarded $11.1M to expand, enhance digital access
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PublishedNovember 25, 2024
Lakes Region towns to test traffic-calming measures
Temporary traffic-calming measures will be implemented in three Lakes Region towns as part of the Greater Portland Council of Governments' Vision Zero Initiative for a goal of zero deaths from traffic.
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PublishedOctober 21, 2024
Bus Ambassador Program helps new Mainers be mobile
The Greater Portland Council of Government's program provides multilingual assistance to immigrants and refugees seeking to ride the bus.
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PublishedOctober 14, 2024
Greater Portland Council of Governments leads coastal erosion initiative
The Greater Portland Council of Governments received a grant to help Casco Bay municipalities that are facing coastal erosion and gather more coastal bluff data.
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PublishedMarch 26, 2024
Pushback on growth is a major barrier even as Maine makes strides to ease housing shortage
Gov. Janet Mills joined local officials Tuesday at a summit hosted by the Greater Portland Council of Governments focused on finding solutions to the state's housing shortage.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2023
100 laptops will get formerly unhoused online for job search
Computers and internet access will be loaned out in a collaborative project aimed at overcoming a key obstacle to employment.
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PublishedSeptember 12, 2023
Falmouth Town Council contributes $25,000 to regional effort to house asylum seekers
The funding will go toward GPCOG's Safe in Maine project for transitional housing.
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PublishedSeptember 4, 2023
Erosion on Chebeague Island seen as warning to other coastal communities
Multiple sites are being monitored along Maine's southern coast, but an intertidal nature preserve on Chebeague Island has changed most of all.
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PublishedAugust 7, 2023
Campaign spotlights oft-ignored yield-to-bus law
It's not optional – if a Metro bus is flashing its yield sign, let it in. That's the message of a new campaign designed to get people to comply with a 2019 law.
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PublishedAugust 2, 2023
New bus route linking Gorham, Westbrook, Portland under consideration
GPCOG is studying a new METRO line with more buses and more stops.
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