Greater Portland Benefits School Supplies Drive, for Scarborough students, collected by the Michelle Raber State Farm Insurance Agency, bring donations to office through Aug. 13 at 696 U.S. Route 1, Scarborough. Wednesday 8/4 “Bowling with the Sea Dogs,” to benefit the Maine Children’s Cancer Program, 10:30 a.m. – noon, registration $25 per person/ $100 for […]

Cape Elizabeth Tue. 8/3 6:20 p.m. School Board Special Meeting TH Tue. 8/3 7 p.m. Planning Board Workshop TH South Portland Mon. 8/2 6 p.m. School Board Special Meeting CH Mon. 8/2 7 p.m. City Council CH Mon. 8/2 9 p.m. City Council Special Workshop CH Tue. 8/3 8:45 a.m. Energy and Recycling Committee CH […]

Brunswick Mon. 8/2 4 p.m. Conservation Commission Workshop 28 Federal St. Tue. 8/3 12 p.m. Housing Authority Board 12 Stone St. Tue. 8/3 7 p.m. Planning Board Maine Street Station Wed. 8/4 7 p.m. Marine Resource MSS Thu. 8/5 5 p.m. Downtown Master Plan 85 Union St. Thu. 8/5 6:30 p.m. Elementary School Building Committee […]

Falmouth Thu. 7/29 6 p.m. Board of Assessment Review TH Mon. 8/2 7 p.m. Conservation Commission TH Tue. 8/3 6:30 p.m. Planning Board TH Wed. 8/4 4 p.m. Community Development Committee TH Cumberland Wed. 8/4 7:30 p.m. Lands and Conservation Commission TH Freeport There are no meetings scheduled for this time period. Yarmouth Wed. 8/4 […]

Animal rights activists triumph over those who would sit back and allow the centuries-old national pastime to die a natural death.

Mahoney Middle School 2009-2010 Fourth Quarter Honor Roll High Honors Sixth grade:  Drew Abramson, Emma Benington, Leah Berry-Sandelin, James Bigbee, Andrew Bradbury, Mary Cronin, Ava Desjardins, Josie Diphilippo, Tara Ford, Sarah Glidden, Lindsey Hurkes, Edita Isakovic, Claire Jackson, Andrew Jalbert, Meagan Johnson, Mackenzie Jones, Griffin Kelley, Anna Kiselevich, Jack Kunin, Kaeli Leddy, Phoebe Little, Alex […]

Portland Wed. 7/28 8 a.m. METRO Board of Directors 114 Valley St. Wed. 7/28 5 p.m. Franklin Arterial Phase II Public Input Session East End School Wed. 7/28 6:30 p.m. Peaks Island Council MCC Thu. 7/29 5 p.m. Solid Waste Task Force CH Mon. 8/2 7 p.m. City Council CH Tue. 8/3 5 p.m. Housing […]

Good Shepherd Food-Bankopens Portland location AUBURN — Good Shepherd Food-Bank opened its new Portland Warehouse and Distribution Center on July 12 at 111 Pine Tree Industrial Parkway. The 20,000 square-foot facility will supply food items to more than 140 food pantries, soup kitchens, after school programs, shelters, and other non-profits in Cumberland and York counties. […]

Everything’s in its place in the small basement studio where Dick Anzelc paints; tools hang neatly on pegboard. “I’m kind of an organized guy,” Anzelc says. The small sanctuary sits just off Anzelc’s self-proclaimed “man cave,” a nicely decorated, climate-controlled basement packed with nautical memorabilia reflecting his younger days as a merchant mariner. At 81, […]

PORTLAND Planetarium events Southworth Planetarium is offering a number of events next week. At 7 p.m. Sunday is “Lammas Celestial Poetry Evening,” a session with local poets and writers reading works about nature, love and other disasters. Admission is by donation. On Monday, there will be an “ABC’s of the Sky” event at 11 a.m., […]