City Council’s unanimous vote against endorsing a site ends the effort to give the JFK a home in Portland Harbor.
Edward D. Murphy
Ed covers the City of Westbrook and business stories for the Portland Press Herald.
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NAACP accuses Maine Gov. LePage of fabricating details of invitation
The group’s leader says “You have to wonder why he lied.”
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Portland council to hear new pitch to host ship as museum
Supporters of the USS John F. Kennedy are back despite a cool reception from the city last fall.
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LePage attends MLK Day breakfast in Waterville
Last week, he turned down invitations to attend King Day events in Portland, and said the sponsor, the NAACP, was a “special interest.”
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Cholera dictating aid needs for Haiti
The country is desperate for proper care as well as better sanitation, says a Portland aid group’s chief.
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They’ve been around the blocks
Enthusiasts at a LEGO Build-a-thon raise more than $2,000 for Habitat for Humanity
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Teenage skier dies at Sugarloaf
A 16-year-old boy died after skiing into an object off the side of a difficult trail at Sugarloaf, a spokesman for the Carrabassett Valley resort said. Ethan Austin said the teen was the son of a Sugarloaf employee and a student at Carrabassett Valley Academy. He said the resort does not release the names of […]
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Time Warner, Sinclair reach fee agreement
PORTLAND – Time Warner Cable and SInclair Broadcasting have reached a tentative agreement on retransmission fees, meaning WGME-TV (Channel 13) will continued to be carried on the local cable system. Time Warner announced the agreement in principle this evening and said it expects to work out a final agreement in the next week. That ensures that […]
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Feature Obituary: Paul Kerry, 74, the life of family’s Saco pub
Paul Kerry helped to create Saco’s version of Norm and Cliff’s favorite hangout. “Him in the pub was just like ‘Cheers,’” Hanna Kerry said of her brother-in-law, who was one of four brothers and a cousin who established the Kerrymen Family Restaurant and Pub on Main Street in Saco 40 years ago. “People would go […]
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New rules, and fees, for Portland burglar alarms
Home and business owners will have to pay to register a system, and the penalties for multiple false alarms will kick in earlier.