PORTLAND — The City Council on Monday approved an emergency zoning amendment to allow a winter’s farmers market on Saturdays. Councilors also scheduled a public hearing on the city’s Capital Improvement Plan. The zoning amendment will take effect immediately to allow a winter’s farmer’s market from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays at the Irish […]

PORTLAND — The King Middle School librarian is one of 10 librarians to receive national recognition from the Carnegie Corp., The New York Times and the American Library Association. Kelley McDaniel, who was selected from a pool of more than 1,400 nominees, will travel Thursday to New York, where she will receive an “I Love […]

PORTLAND — The Peaks Island Council will hold two meetings this weekend focusing on public safety and secession from the city. The council has scheduled a public safety meeting for Friday at 6:30 p.m. at either the Inn on Peaks Island or the MacVane Community Center. A straw poll and discussion about a possible secession […]

PORTLAND — Mayor Nicholas Mavodones, leading the City Council for a second consecutive year, said Monday that he hopes to capitalize on an electorate energized by the November elections. Also, in a nod to the tide that swept Republicans into control of state government, Mavodones in his inaugural address said he would re-establish the city’s […]

PORTLAND — The Portland Regional Chamber has gone mobile. Last week, the chamber announced a new smartphone application that will make it easier for shoppers to find local shops and bargains.  Spokeswoman Laura LeBrun said the app will eventually be available for download on iTunes, the Andriod Market and Nokia’s Ovi store.  “It’s been submitted, […]

PORTLAND — The Sudanese community is coming together Thursday for a Monument Square rally to draw attention to continued violence in their former homeland. Organized by the Fur Cultural Revival and Sudanese Community Association of Maine, the rally will be held from noon to 2 p.m. and will feature speeches by Sudanese leaders and freedom […]

PORTLAND — New crossing signals that use video cameras to detect pedestrians are being tested at two city intersections. The systems being tested at the Commercial-Franklin street and Park-Deering avenue intersections are designed to make it safer for pedestrians, especially the visually impaired, to cross the street. The signals use stereo cameras to detect when […]

PORTLAND — Zoe Romano remembers a day she was running along the beach in Charleston, S.C., her feet wet from the rolling waves, when the sky began to darken and the clouds rolled in. She pushed on, determined to get her run in, but the weather had other plans. When lightning started darting across the sky, […]

PORTLAND — On North Star Music Cafe’s last afternoon of business, owner Kim Anderson was out of bread. “Business as usual,” she said. North Star was a cafe without coffee. A piece of notebook paper on the counter announced what was left to eat and drink, with items continually being crossed out. A jazz ensemble […]

Hundreds of people greet a caravan of vehicles at Cheverus High School in Portland on Sunday where the Wreaths Across America project stopped on its way to Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.Members of the high school swim team carry wreaths into the school for a ceremony before the caravan moved on.