Councilors approve the first reading of a $64.4 million plan that includes the largest tax-rate increase in eight years, and an effort to increase funding for the My Place Teen Center falls short.
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.
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May Day rally in Portland takes aim at Trump immigration policies
More than 200 people turn out to protest detentions like that of Otto Morales-Caballeros of Naples, who was arrested on his way to work last month.
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Westbrook council to vote on 5 percent property tax rate increase
On a home assessed at $190,000, the annual tax bill would go up by $179.
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Maine is awash, bringing yearlong drought to an end
Above-average rainfall this month, coupled with the melting of a large snowpack, helps ease the groundwater dropoff that plagued much of Maine since last year.
Posted inCookbook Reviews, Food
‘Rise and Shine’ breaks the bland breakfast routine
Most recipes can be made ahead of time and stored easily, so a healthy morning doesn’t need to start at the crack of dawn.
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Westbrook project adds an edible touch to downtown scene
A local grad student will send a message on healthy food with planters holding veggies the public can pick.
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Marijuana giveaway in Monument Square gets crowd stoked
Longtime legal-weed advocate Crash Berry honors ‘420,’ a sort-of marijuana holiday, by handing out one-gram packets for free starting around high noon.
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Maine’s a haven for asylum seeker from Russia
Drawing unwanted attention from Putin’s government, an activist for the plight of indigenous people in the Far East resettles in Yarmouth.
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Judge rules Bowdoin has first right to buy house linked to Harriet Beecher Stowe
The college would have to pay the average of three appraised values of the house located in the middle of campus at 28 College St.
Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State
Woman charged with selling cocaine, heroin from Lewiston motel
The Auburn woman also faces a weapons charge.