PORTLAND – A pedestrian and bicycle path connecting the popular Back Cove Trail with Portland’s Bayside neighborhood will be built this fall. The plan, presented Wednesday night by state and city officials during a hearing at Merrill Auditorium, was applauded by Bayside residents, who said it’s long overdue. Construction of the paved link, which will […]
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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East Bayside gets together for a National Night Out
A march by residents and police ends with a cookout at the neighborhood’s Peppermint Park.
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Windham woman accused of dragging man with her car
Chaka Coleman is being held on $75,000 cash bail after getting into an argument with a man and dragging him with her car.
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Unum posts solid second-quarter earnings
Unum reports a net income gain over the same period in 2010.
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Westbrook quickly OKs ex-fire chief settlement
Daniel Brock, who was fired last year, will get $110,000 from the city and $210,000 from the city’s insurance carrier.
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Waterboro man charged with terrorizing shop employees
Kenneth Briggs Jr. yells at workers and threatens to kill them before he is taken into custody, police say.
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Big Bang theory coming to former Loring building
A Portland-based company will use nearly 300 pounds of dynamite to demolish a building at the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, one of the largest implosion projects ever attempted in Maine. Engineered Products of Maine, which is located on Riverside Street, says it will implode the four-story Central Heat Plant at 11 a.m. […]
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Victims added to toll from domestic abuse
The fatal shootings this week of Renee Sandora, 27, of New Gloucester and her friend, 28-year-old Trevor Mills of New Bedford, Mass., brought the number of homicides in Maine this year to 17. They also raised another disturbing fact, one that abuse prevention advocates say needs more attention. Of those homicides, more than half – […]
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Bridge closed: Maine-N.H. span shuts about a year early
Memorial Bridge will be replaced, but some on Route 1 fear loss of business for the next three years.
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In Maine, 34 post offices may be closed
Most of those targeted in Maine are in rural areas; 3,700 could be shut across the U.S.