PORTLAND — Benchmark Real Estate and the Friends of Woodfords Corner will host the latest installment of Third Thursdays at Trinity Park, an initiative to invigorate the Woodfords Corner area. The Aug. 15 event, which begins at 5 p.m., will include food and drink samples from neighborhood vendors. Benchmark and volunteers with the Maine Access […]
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Portland company wins Navy contract
PORTLAND — Navatek LLC, a designer of ships and ocean vessels, was awarded an $8 million contract by the U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research to pursue new science and technology to design safer hulls and hybrid electric propulsion systems. Navatek will work with Front Street Shipyards in Belfast, which will build the Navatek prototypes […]
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Maine health providers get funds for opioid crisis
PORTLAND — Maine received close to $6 million in federal funding to combat the opioid crisis. According to a press release, the funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration, will “enable Maine community health centers, rural organizations, and academic institutions to establish and expand access to integrated […]
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Finalists for MLK memorial named
PORTLAND — Three finalists have been chosen to create proposals for a memorial to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. along a section of the Bayside Trail at the corner of Franklin Street and Marginal Way. The city last week announced the finalists are Robert Katz of Augusta; TJD&A Landscape Architects of Yarmouth, and […]
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Falmouth roads to close for bridge project
FALMOUTH — Lunt Road will close to all vehicular and pedestrian traffic at night this week and next week, when the old Lunt Road bridge will be removed. Interstate 295 northbound and southbound lanes will also see single-lane closures. Signs will direct vehicles along alternate routes. Lunt Road will be closed this week through Friday […]
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South Portland fire leaves 1 homeless
SOUTH PORTLAND — A fire that displaced one tenant Aug. 5 happened in a building that is exempt from the city’s sprinkler requirement. The building at the Kingswood Condominiums, which includes the two largest structures in the city, isn’t required to have sprinklers because it was built in 1972, before the city’s fire and protection […]
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Orr’s and Bailey Island Fire Dept. hosts annual yard sale, auction
HARPSWELL — The Orr’s and Bailey Island Fire Department is hosting its 26th annual Yard Sale and Auction Aug. 10 and 11 at the fire station and inside the Orr’s Island Schoolhouse. The auction will take place on Sunday at 10 a.m. Items up for bid include an African photo safari; a vacation in Tuscany, Italy; […]
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South Portland library increases hours
SOUTH PORTLAND — The city’s public library will expand its hours as part of an effort to increase community outreach programming. Starting Aug. 18, the main library at 482 Broadway will be open on Mondays. The branch library, at 155 Wescott Road, will be open six days a week, from 1-5 p.m. Sunday through Friday. […]
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Grant to Spurwink will address opioid use
PORTLAND – Spurwink has received a grant of nearly $42,600 from United Way of Greater Portland to help launch a program to address the need for opioid use disorder treatment in Cumberland County. The money will fund the Medication Assisted Treatment program at Spurwink Adult Behavioral Health, which serves adults with co-occurring serious mental illness […]
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Portland names social services administrator
PORTLAND — A month and a half after appointing Kristen Dow health and human services director, the city has filled another key vacancy in the department. Aaron Geyer, who had been serving as interim social services director for the last few months, officially became social services administrator July 31. Geyer has worked for the Social […]