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‘Tracing the Fore’: Panel votes to move artwork

The Portland Public Art Committee voted Wednesday to recommend moving the controversial piece known as “Tracing the Fore” out of Boothby Square.

The 7-3 vote followed an attempt to have the landscape art installation scrapped.

The final destination of “Tracing the Fore” remains to be determined. The committee considered two options Wednesday: city-owned land at Fish Point on the Eastern Promenade, and along the Fore River near Mercy Hospital.

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Manns on a mission

CAMDEN – The boxer Baron, standing alert and upright, answers the doorbell with a bark. The dog’s master, Robert Manns, follows closely behind with a good-natured bark of his own. “We usually think of New York as very quick,” says the aged and witty playwright, explaining why it’s taken America’s theater capital so long to […]

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Music center, school in harmony

Kyara Dorvee can’t believe what she is hearing herself sing.

“It sounds so good, it sounds so good,” she says, a smile streaking across her face. “That sounds so cool. I’m really proud of us right now.”

Dorvee, a student at Casco Bay High School, is sitting on a folding cafeteria bench among a small gathering of her peers. They’ve taken themselves out of their regular humanities class to work with professional musicians from 317 Main St Community Music Center in Yarmouth.