Recognition The Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development announced that 2016 Top Gun Entrepreneur Amanda O’Brien has been selected as the recipient of this year’s Victoria Hilliard Donovan Award. The financial award is given annually in the spring to encourage women entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers. O’Brien is a co-founder of eighteen twenty, which makes wine from […]

Portland Wed.  4/27  8 a.m.  METRO Board of Directors  114 Valley St. Wed.  4/27  4:30 p.m.  Energy & Sustainability Committee  CH Wed.  4/27  5:30 p.m.  Housing Committee  St. Pius X Church 492 Ocean Ave. Mon.  5/2  5 p.m.  City Council  CH Tues.  5/3  5 p.m.  Economic Development Committee  CH Tues.  5/3  5:30 p.m.  Legislative/Nominating Committee  […]

Brunswick Mon.  4/25  1 p.m.  Zoning Ordinance Rewrite Committee  Town Hall Tues.  4/26  7:30 a.m. Brunswick Downtown Association  TH   Tues.  4/26  5 p.m.  Village Review Board  TH   Tues.  4/26  7 p.m.  Planning Board  TH   Wed.  4/27  10 a.m.  Staff Review TH   Wed.  4/27  1 p.m.  Mare Brook Watershed Assessment and Community […]

Principal’s award winner named at BHS Nathan Granholm has been selected to receive the 2016 Maine Principals’ Association Principal’s Award at Brunswick High School. The criteria for the award includes academic excellence, outstanding school citizenship and leadership. Granholm was chosen as well to receive one of 10 $1,000 scholarships awarded when his name was drawn […]

Cape Elizabeth Mon.  4/25  7 p.m.  Planning Board  TH Tues.  4/26  7 p.m.   Town Council/School Board Budget Presentation  TH Tues.  4/26  7 p.m.   Zoning Board of Appeals  TH Wed.  4/27  7 p.m.  Town Council (Budget Workshop)  TH Thur.  4/28  7 p.m.  Fort Williams Advisory Commission  PWD Scarborough Mon.  4/25  7 p.m.  Planning Board  […]

Greater Portland Benefits Thursday 4/21 Toast on the Coast, 6-9 p.m., benefit for Easter Seals Maine, Ocean Gateway, Portland. Local chefs compete; wine and food pairings; includes raffle for trip to California, toastonthecoast.com/tickets. Wednesday 4/27 Annual Raffle & Charity Event, 5-7 p.m., Rising Tide Brewing Company, 103 Fox St., Portland. Benefits Saint Andre Home’s Hope […]

Harrison students win imaginative initiative The fifth-grade Destination Imagination team from Harrison Middle School in Yarmouth won first place in a crowded field in the “Pace of Change” challenge at the Destination Imagination state tournament held April 10 at the University of Maine Orono. The team, Solution Seven, designed and built a vehicle that could […]

Lincoln Middle School eighth-graders are working on an unusual list of gifts that includes goats, ducks, rabbits, bees and clean water. A fundraiser is underway so students can buy those “gifts” and others for families living in poverty around the world. “We are partnering with Heifer International to support families living with hunger and in […]

Chebeague Island Mon.  4/25  4:30 p.m.  Cemetery Committee  TO Wed.  4/27  7 p.m.  Planning Board  (Public Hearing)  IH Thur.  4/28  6 p.m.  Coastal Waters Commission  TO Cumberland Mon.  4/25  7 p.m.  Town Council  TH Tues.  4/26  7 p.m.  Planning Board TH Falmouth Mon.  4/25  5 p.m.  Town Council  TH Mon.  4/25  7 p.m.  School Board   […]

MAMM SLAM finalists announced The Maine Academy of Modern Music has announced the finalists of the 2016 MAMM SLAM who will compete in the finals May 14: Liam Swift (Casco Bay High School); Work In Progress (Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough high schools); Yard Sail (Thornton Academy, Casco Bay and Cheverus high schools); Fading Dawn, (Camden […]