PORTLAND — Representatives from Portland schools and businesses gathered Monday, Sept. 20, for the launch of a fund to subsidize eyeglasses for needy schoolchildren. The impetus for Eyeglasses for Students came only a week earlier, after School Nurse Coordinator Amanda Rowe informed administrators there were no longer any Portland eye-care practitioners who would provide glasses […]

PORTLAND — Five years after the city identified Dougherty Field as the best location for a new skate park, construction of the facility is set to begin. The park is expected to take six weeks to build. It’s completion will give skaters and bikers a designated place to ride for the first time since the […]

PORTLAND — One of the world’s most famous pop stars visited Deering Oaks Park Monday afternoon to rally support for overturning the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Lady Gaga spoke to a crowd of about 2,500 shortly after 5 p.m., telling them that not allowing gays to serve openly in the military is analogous […]

CUMBERLAND — Mike Timmons is keeping his fingers crossed that the weather will cooperate and the crowds will be voluminous at this year’s Cumberland County Fair. A fair director and past president who also wears many other hats, Timmons has worked the past year with other organizers to put together the 2010 event. The fair opens […]

PORTLAND — Nearly two dozen children scurried about the sun-splashed playground at the Portland Arts and Technology High School on a seasonably cool Monday morning. Many of the faces, having attended nursery school there last year, were familiar to PATHS’ early childhood development teachers. But this year, the 4-year-olds are part of a new, state-approved […]

HARPSWELL — A businessman and publisher who broke a record sailing solo non-stop around the world and spent his final years on Snow Island died Sept. 14 in Boston from complications during cancer surgery. Dodge D. Morgan, 78, had a career in journalism that included working as a reporter in Alaska and owning two Maine weekly […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — There will be an informational session on Wednesday, Sept. 29, for residents of South Portland, Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough affected by newly proposed federal flood maps. South Portland City Manager Jim Gailey said the forum, which will run from 6-9 p.m. in the South Portland High School Auditorium, will be a chance […]

SCARBOROUGH — The Public Library will be closed from Sept. 20-26 while construction crews work on the parking lot and sidewalks. No borrowed materials will be due or accepted during the week and late fees or fines will not be accrued. The construction project, which will replace and expand the exisiting parking lot, add drop-off […]

PHIPPSBURG — Standing on Malaga Island, on the excavated ground where a schoolhouse once stood, it’s easy to think of young children playing, learning and being part of a small mixed-race community that existed a century ago. But in 1912 their world changed abruptly when the state evicted everyone, ripped up graves and institutionalized some […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — A Fit’n Fun-athon will be held Sunday, Sept. 19, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Skillin Elementary School, 180 Wescott Road. The free, family-focused event will offer participants of all ages a variety of physical activities and information about healthier lifestyles. Events will include a soccer shootout, Whiffle Ball derby, hockey […]