FREEPORT — Some residents and business owners are questioning the proposal for a tax break to finance a six-screen movie theater on Mill Street in Freeport Village Station. Al Yebba, chief operating officer of Berenson Associates, developer of Freeport Village Station, and Mark Benvenuto, director of the theater division of Belmont Capital, the potential operator of […]

NORTH YARMOUTH — The sound of music and aroma of food will fill the Village Green during a summertime celebration on Sunday, July 25. Participants are also sought for next month’s North Yarmouth Fun Day parade. A summer bandstand concert and community picnic and barbecue, presented by the North Yarmouth Events Committee, will begin on Sunday […]

“The Great Haul,” a mammoth, nest-like mesh of salvaged and sewn sheet plastic by Portland artist Anna Hepler, takes shape last week at the Portland Museum of Art.Portland artist Anna Hepler and assistant Nathan Johnson work on installing “The Great Haul” in the Portland Museum of Art’s Great Hall on Wednesday, July 14.

Anthony Ampezzan, senior lead police officer for Portland’s West End, and Sarah Colton, community policing coordinator, cut a ribbon Tuesday morning, July 20, to officially open the new West End Policing Center at the Reiche Community Center. The event was attended by Police Chief James Craig, left, City Councilor Dave Marshall, City Manager Joseph Gray […]

FREEPORT — Town Council Chairman Bill Muldoon said he will not seek re-election this November. Nomination papers for candidates who hope to replace him on the council, or interested in other municipal offices, will be available next week. Muldoon, a councilor-at-large and resident of Roos Hill Drive, said he and his wife plan to move […]

FREEPORT — There will be an addition to the L.L. Bean summer concert series next month when Shakespeare takes to the stage. The Freeport Shakespeare Festival will present “The Tempest” at Discovery Park, adding to the free musical offerings usually available to spectators. Susan Garrett, the director of education and outreach for the festival, said […]

CUMBERLAND — A zoning change that would allow small businesses along part of Main Street goes before the Town Council on Monday, July 26. The proposal is contained in the Cumberland Town Center Advisory Committee’s final report to the council, the culmination of nearly a year’s worth of work. Among the tasks that the council assigned […]

PORTLAND — Police responding to the report of a person in the water at the Ocean Gateway Terminal Tuesday morning, July 20, recovered the body of a dead man. The discovery was made at 5:47 a.m. The man, in his 60s, has been tentatively identified as a homeless person. Police are not releasing his name […]

Concert at Mill Creek Park is rescheduled due to a bad weather forecast.

FALMOUTH — Police are searching for a woman wanted for robbery, attempted robbery and vehicle theft after a series of events here and in Yarmouth early in the morning on July 17. They are also taking their bicycles out of mothballs to fight a recent spike in burglaries. In Saturday’s events, Police said a woman […]