This summer, Rosemont Market & Bakery, which operates six neighborhood markets from Cape Elizabeth to Yarmouth, will be the newest tenant at Thompson’s Point when it takes over space formerly used by Cellardoor Winery. With the upcoming opening of the Children’s Museum, Thompson’s Point developers Chris Thompson and Jed Troubh were looking for a tenant […]
Michael Kelley
Michael Kelley has been professionally working in the newspaper industry since 2006 writing about municipal news, education news, environmental news, sports and other human interest topics. He has covered the communities of Cape Elizabeth, Scarborough, Portland, South Portland and Westbrook for several weekly newspapers. His work has appeared in magazines, daily newspapers and weekly newspapers throughout Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont.
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Work begins on Racial Equity Steering Committee recommendations
Recommendations include changes to police training, oversight, accountability and response, as well as the creation of several new groups to address inequalities in the city.
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Proposed Portland city budget aimed at restoring pandemic cuts
Due to revenue from the American Rescue Plan, municipal tax bills are expected to go down by 4%, excluding any increases caused by the Portland Public Schools budget.
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Partners for World Health turns to art to raise shipping funds
The pandemic caused the Portland-based organization to forgo both its regular international medical mission trips and its largest fundraiser, but it’s still shipping out medical supplies and equipment.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly, Portland Forecaster
Windham correctional center revamp moves closer to completion
Modernizing a century-old prison by constructing new buildings and demolishing others is complicated when that prison is fully operating, but completion of the work at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham is expected be completed by August 2022, just off the original June 2022 target date. The $141 million state funded project, which began in […]
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Food composting program piloted in Portland
Portland has kicked off a year-long food composting pilot program, in which residents can drop off food scraps at five locations across the city. Food scraps, such as fruits, vegetables, dairy products, meat and bones, can be dropped off at anytime at the North Street Community Garden, Boyd Street Community Garden, Clark Street Community Garden […]
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Interactive map helps find transportation to vaccine providers
Greater Portland METRO has teamed up with other transit providers in southern Maine to create an interactive map to help people reach vaccine providers in Cumberland and York counties using public transportation. “Lack of transportation is a barrier to many people seeking access to COVID-19 vaccines,” said Greg Jordan, executive director of Greater Portland METRO. […]
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Portland dental clinics to offer services to veterans
The University of New England Dental Clinic at the Stevens Avenue campus and Community Dental on Park Avenue, both in Portland, are two of the eight dental clinics across the state participating in the new Maine Veterans’ Dental Network. The network, a partnership with Northeast Delta Dental, participating dental clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers, […]
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History-rich Baxter Woods celebrates 75 years as Portland park
The property between Stevens and Forest avenues was deeded to the city by Gov. Percival Baxter to forever be a place for recreation and education programs and a sanctuary for birds.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly, Northern Forecaster, Portland Forecaster
Citizen scientists needed to find some big aquatic bugs
The Stream Explorer Program will be chronicling aquatic insects in streams around Sebago Lake and southern Maine May through October.