YARMOUTH — A revised version of the Extracurricular Code of Conduct was unanimously approved by the School Committee on Thursday, Sept. 9. After the first reading of the policy was presented Aug. 26, the Policy Committee met again to discuss language clarifications and suggestions offered by the School Committee. The second reading was presented Sept. […]

PORTLAND — Native Mainer and University of Southern Maine graduate Brandon Turner and his band, The Haberdashery Ensemble, will bring their blend of jazz, classical, folk, gypsy, French and tango music to southern Maine this weekend. The band, which Turner started when he moved to Los Angeles to study bass at the University of California, […]

Rob Ellis, Jamie Cragnolime and Christie Van Kanegan paint over graffitti on a building in Portland’s Deering Oaks Park on Saturday, Sept. 11. They were among 60 people who participated in a National Day of Service & Remembrance event organized by the city and Hour Exchange Portland on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Education is telling schools to prohibit the use of airway-restrictive restraints on students until the department can revise its regulations on restraint and seclusion of students in public and private schools. In a Sept. 10 letter from Education Commissioner Angela Faherty to superintendents and other school personnel, the department […]

PORTLAND — Read Street between Bell Street and Canco Road will be reduced to one lane with alternating traffic on Thursday, Sept. 16, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. during training exercises for emergency responders. Westbound traffic on Baxter Boulevard will be detoured through Payson Park to Ocean Avenue and Vannah Avenue at the same […]

PORTLAND — Efforts to bring the USS John F. Kennedy to the Portland waterfront, where it would become a permanent museum and convention center, ran into opposition at a City Council workshop Monday night. Several councilors spoke against granting a memorandum of understanding for berthing space for the mothballed 1,050-foot aircraft carrier at the planned […]

PORTLAND — City councilors on Monday voted 7-1 to give raises to themselves and other nonunion city employees. The City Council also approved the creation of a sound oversight committee to mediate noise disputes between Old Port bar owners and other residents and business owners. The sale of a portion of city-owned land on Thames […]

PORTLAND — A 25-year-old Portland man was indicted by a Cumberland County grand jury for the Aug. 12 murder of 58-year-old Richard Meyer. Shawn Garland is charged with intentional or knowing or depraved indifference murder in Meyer’s stabbing death in a Grant Street apartment. An indictment is not a finding of guilt, but a determination […]

PORTLAND — Embattled City Councilor Dan Skolnik has changed his mind and will seek re-election in District 3. “Based on events, I am putting my money where my mouth is,” Skolnik said, when reached Monday afternoon. “And I have a big mouth.” Skolnik has been making headlines recently by going public with his concerns about […]

PORTLAND — Some Parkside residents say they have had enough of trash and unwanted furniture piling up in their neighborhood. Parkside Neighborhood Association President Chelsea Miller said her group has been working with city officials to confront a growing problem of illegal dumping on residential streets, particularly Grant and Sherman streets. Miller said residents have been […]