After every snowstorm in Portland, squadrons of volunteers – mostly high school students – fan out throughout the city to clear snow for the elderly. Joan Sheedy coordinates the operation from her living room at the Bayview Heights senior housing facility atop Munjoy Hill. The program, which Sheedy started seven years ago, is now being […]
Tom Bell
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Home sweet housing stock turns sour
Post-Great Recession, communities have been blighted by both empty houses and homes whose owners can’t maintain them.
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Family in fatal Orrington fire had unique housing deal
The arrangement, discouraged by banks and real estate agents, lets potential owners occupy a home pending the final sale.
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Wood stove ignited tragic Orrington fire
The Johnson family, which lost a child to SIDS in 2007, planned to fix the furnace after getting a mortgage loan.
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Boxes near wood stove started deadly fire
A father and his three children died in the blaze that destroyed an Orrington home Saturday.
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Longtime ‘king of the St. John Valley’ deposed
Voters decide it’s time for a change and oust John Martin from the Maine Legislature.
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Election 2012: Portland school board
There are two contested races on the peninsula for the Portland Board of Public Education.
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Last leg of long journey for Downeaster
Stops in Freeport and Brunswick finally fulfill Maine’s original vision for passenger rail service, which started with a Portland-Boston run in 2001.
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Downeaster arrives in Brunswick
The expansion of the Boston-to-Portland service to Freeport and Brunswick fulfills the original vision of the passenger rail service launched in 2001.
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Longtime Maine Democratic leader dies
Rodney Quinn, a veteran and a former secretary of state, was an old-school politician who put the party ahead of his career.