The spending plan for 2017-18 will result in the greatest tax rate increase the city has seen in eight years.
Megan Gray
Staff Writer
Megan Gray is an arts and culture reporter at the Portland Press Herald. A Midwest native, she moved to Maine in 2016. She has written about presidential politics and local government, jury trials and jails. Her current beat is her favorite yet, and she loves the stories that take her to behind the scenes to an artist studio or theater backstage. Outside of work, she likes to explore Maine’s hiking trails and coastal islands with her husband, and she definitely wants to pet your dog.
Traffic signals coming to busy Westbrook intersection
The Maine Department of Transportation will present its plans to the public Wednesday for the Cumberland Mills traffic triangle, which has the ninth-highest crash rating in the state.
Westbrook council to take final vote on budget that raises property taxes 5%
If it passes, the increase will be the largest for city residents in eight years.
Deering High senior makes a very public musical ‘promposal’
Aiming for something original, Katie McCabe enlisted her band – most of it, at least – to ask a friend to her senior prom.
Naples man who fled to U.S. 20 years ago is deported to Guatemala
The wife of Otto Morales-Caballeros has applied for a passport so she can go see her husband as they try to obtain legal status for him.
‘I’m never going to stop fighting,’ Maine woman vows as husband’s deportation looms
Otto Morales-Caballeros of Naples has lived in the United States for 20 years since fleeing violence in his native Guatemala as a teenager.
Undocumented Maine immigrant, in U.S. for 20 years, now close to deportation
Federal officials had allowed Otto Morales-Caballeros of Naples to stay here, then President Trump’s tightened policy led to his arrest.
Westbrook’s largest downtown office building for sale
One Riverfront Plaza has been vacant for more than a year.
Navy SEALs one of U.S. military’s most elite forces
Established by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, the SEALs, which account for less than 1 percent of the Navy’s active-duty personnel, conduct covert missions by sea, air and land around the world.
More homeless escape streets as Portland opens 30 new apartments
Huston Commons is the city’s third ‘housing first’ facility, based on a national model that provides homes so people can then deal with factors contributing to their homelessness.