Widespread showers and thunderstorms also cause minor flooding as the Labor Day weekend ends.
Randy Billings
Staff Writer
Randy Billings is a government watchdog and political reporter who has been the State House bureau chief since 2021. He was named the Maine Press Association’s Journalist of the Year in 2020. He joined the Press Herald in 2012 as the Portland City Hall reporter, where his beat touched on a wide range of topics, including municipal government, immigration, homelessness, housing and social services. Prior to that, he worked at various weeklies as well as business and arts publications. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine, Orono. He lives in North Yarmouth with his wife and two children and enjoys the outdoors and playing his upright bass.
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Trailblazer for women journalists dies in Maine at 74
Judith Glassman Daniels, the first woman editor of Life magazine, was a mentor to many and added serious content to publications for women.
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LePage pledges to help Sudanese refugees
The governor also criticizes legislators for not doing more to help Mainers who are working toward a better life.
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Portland landlord with a past buys building with a history
One of downtown’s most prominent and historic buildings has been sold to a local landlord with a history of disputes over the condition of his properties.
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Baxter Boulevard’s future: Never on Sunday?
The Portland street will reopen to traffic soon. But the calm of the months-long closure could return on a regular basis.
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Sprague buying Gowen Marine
The purchase will allow the owner of Portland Yacht Services to begin servicing larger vessels.
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Cumberland Ave. housing project wins approval
The Portland Planning Board acts over neighbors’ objections to the development’s limited parking.
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$38 million Portland project ‘starting to gel’
Planning Board members give favorable reviews to the ambitious Bayside plan for apartments and retail space.
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Gowen Marine, a Portland waterfront landmark, sold
Phineas Sprague, who recently sold the Portland Company Marine Complex, purchased the business as part of his plan to reshape the city’s working waterfront.
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Finding young Maine artists a cheap space to create
Creative Portland is taking on the challenge and plans a Web clearinghouse of potential studios.