Marchers make their way along Congress Street in Portland Saturday as the 24th annual Gay Pride Parade and celebration got underway. More than 4,000 people lined the streets as the participants marched from Monument Square to Deering Oaks Park. Bruce Babbidge, left, and Dan Williams, both of the organization Just Guys, prepare streamers to fly […]

PORTLAND — There only seemed to be one option in the eyes of the 20 or so local business owners who attended the Maine Turnpike Authority’s June 17, public meeting to receive feedback on three alternatives for a new Exit 48 bridge. Eric Johnson, general manager of Berlin City Lexus said, the other two alternatives […]

Leery of ‘corporate slowness,’ Charles Fuller self-publishes ‘Snatch’ to get the book ‘into the community.’

The idea of choosing a simple, self-sufficient life, away from the din and close to nature, is hardly new. Thoreau famously lived in a cabin near Walden Pond for two years, doing just that. In the 150 years since, countless others have chosen to live off the land and off the grid. But few have […]

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Portland Country Club head pro John Boswell looked out his pro shop window one rainy day a few years ago to see a solitary figure chipping and putting on the practice green. It was Barrett Nichols, who at 100 years old was working on his game. “Barrett was the only person on the property,” said […]

PORTLAND — A Federal Trade Commission spokesman Friday said the agency has approved Trader Joe’s request to purchase the former Wild Oats space on Marginal Way. The deal transfers the property from Whole Foods Market to Trader Joe’s. Whole Foods acquired the Wild Oats grocery chain in 2007 and closed the Portland store in 2008. […]

SCARBOROUGH — Superintendent David Doyle announced Thursday that he will be leaving his job at the end of the next school year after 24 years in the School Department. “I will graduate with the class of 2011,” Doyle told the School Board Thursday night. Doyle was appointed to the position four years ago after serving […]

BRUNSWICK — A judge has dealt a blow to a local hotel owner’s lawsuit over the town’s tax rebate plan for the developer of Maine Street Station. Peter Anastos, a Yarmouth resident and principal owner of of Maine Course Hospitality Group in Freeport, sued the town after it approved a program that will return to […]

FALMOUTH — A 16-year-old Portland High School sophomore was killed June 17 in a single-vehicle crash on Blackstrap Road. Police said Garrett Cormier was driving south when he apparently lost control of his Hyundai Santa Fe and struck a series of trees just south of the intersection with Hardy Road. The SUV flipped onto its […]