PORTLAND — A City Council subcommittee is considering selling land in the Bayside neighborhood and purchasing another piece of land. But city officials are being secretive about the details, refusing to disclose the location of the city-owned property. The Community Development Committee has held closed-door meetings since September about the property. Its most recent agenda […]

PORTLAND — Opponents of the successful campaign to have an elected mayor are complaining that proponents received nearly $47,000 in free advertising from The Portland Press Herald the week before the November election. The gift was disclosed in a post-election finance report for Elect Our Mayor/Yes on 1, a group including the Portland Regional Chamber […]

PORTLAND — A proposal to permanently dock the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier in Portland Harbor will go before the City Council again early next year. This time, however, the project has new leadership – event-marketing specialist Stephen Woods and attorney/consultant F. Lee Bailey, both of Yarmouth. The proposal, which first gained traction last […]

BRUNSWICK — A bomb threat forced the closing Friday of Brunswick High School. The shutdown was originally attributed by school officials to “a building malfunction,” but Superintendent Paul Perzanoski confirmed later in the morning that officials were investigating a bomb threat. Perzanoski said the threat was received Thursday afternoon around 2 p.m. and the decision was […]

Volunteer Dave Japikse from Tri County Literacy reads “The Night Before Christmas” to an attentive group of children waiting for Santa and his elves to appear aboard the “Candy Cane Train” last weekend between Bath and Wiscasset.

Paige Bishop, 8, grabs hold of her sister Haylee, 4, on a small hill near their home in Bath last Saturday afternoon when there was a dusting of sleddable snow.

Jim Wickham, left, of the South Portland Lions Club, and his son, JR, try to decide what else they can add to their cart while Thornton Heights Lions Club President Richard Campbell and Anne Galyean of the South Portland Boys and Girls Club make their way down the aisle at Target on Dec. 11 during […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — School administrators are plotting a makeover for the way education is delivered at Kaler Elementary School. They’re calling it The Kaler Renewal. And the goal is to take a project-based, interdisciplinary approach to learning to better engage students before the school lands on a state watch list. Superintendent of Schools Suzanne Godin […]

SCARBOROUGH — People upset over proposed off-season parking restrictions at Higgins Beach may soon be sated if a new compromise suggested by Councilor Judith Roy is accepted by the Town Council. While the proposal creates one-hour time-limited parking and a five-minute drop-off area along a portion of Bayview Drive, it also creates unlimited year-round parking […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — City councilors have requested more detailed financial reports from the School Department ahead of the Jan. 5 start of fiscal 2012 budget deliberations. The schools, meanwhile, will begin their budget discussions later than usual, so more accurate state subsidies can be used. Councilors have told the School Department to deliver two years […]