Some residents in the area think it sends the wrong message and encourages graffiti elsewhere.
Dennis Hoey
Dennis Hoey is the Portland Press Herald’s night reporter, covering any and all news that breaks in the late afternoon and evening hours. He has been chasing stories after normal business hours in Portland since 2008. Before that he worked in the Press Herald’s Brunswick Bureau where he spent several years covering news in several midcoast towns from Rockland and Wiscasset to Bath and Brunswick. He also covered Bath Iron Works, the Brunswick Naval Air Station, Bowdoin College, and the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant during his years in Brunswick. When he’s not hunting down criminals, politicians or law enforcement officials, Dennis enjoys spending time riding his bicycle, hiking, and cross country skiing.
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Three charged with operating meth lab in Sherman
The lab found in a mobile home is the 123rd methamphetamine incident investigated by Maine drug authorities this year.
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Maine ceremonies mark 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack
Both Portland and Bangor plan events Wednesday to remember more than 2,400 servicemen who were killed in the surprise attack that pulled the U.S. into World War II.
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Southern Maine’s first snowfall provides a taste of what’s to come
Monday’s light snow – ranging from 3.8 inches in Standish to 1.1 inches at the Portland airport – leads to numerous slide-offs and fender-benders throughout the region, as well as a run on snow tires, sand and ice melt.
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Sanford police issue warning about scam artist
They say a man in his 60s duped a woman into stealing a package from a resident’s front steps.
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Among Greater Portland landlords, ‘shock waves’ from Nisbet jail sentence
The judge sends a message on safety violations that’s ‘just a completely different approach to code issues,’ says the president of one association.
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Transcript could shed light on what happened aboard El Faro before sinking
The National Transportation Safety Board will make public 400 pages gleaned from conversations recorded shortly before the ship went down in a hurricane.
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Mother of slain Naples man recalls a warm, devoted son
Sandra Diekema doesn’t know why her son allowed shooting suspect Norman Strobel to move in with him.
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Navy’s Blue Angels aerial team will perform in Brunswick next summer
The team will highlight the Great State of Maine Air Show in August in its only New England appearance of the year.
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Man who allegedly beat girlfriend, threw her out of moving car arrested in N.H.
Berwick police described Bo Rodden, 25, as armed and dangerous while searching for him Monday.