PORTLAND — The city clerk’s office will be open from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 5, for absentee voting or registering to vote in next week’s primaries. Absentee ballots are also available in the clerk’s office at City Hall during regular business hours this week, and can be downloaded from the city website, portlandmaine.gov/voter/voter.asp#absentee_ballot. […]

NORTH YARMOUTH — Residents will vote line-by-line on the fiscal 2011 municipal budget at Town Meeting on Saturday, June 12. They will also decide whether to overturn a decision by the Board of Selectmen and open town land to hunting. Selectmen are recommending a $2.1 million budget, which would be funded through $1.3 million in municipal […]

FREEPORT — A petition that would have overturned a Town Council decision to consolidate emergency dispatch services with Brunswick has failed to attract the required signatures. Town Clerk Beverly Curry said only 446 residents signed the document by the May 26 deadline. The petition needed 626 signatures to succeed. Town Manager Dale Olmstead said he […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Gov. John Baldacci made an appearance at Southern Maine Community College Tuesday to champion a June 8 bond proposal that includes funding to establish a new campus at Brunswick Naval Air Station. The so-called Maine Advanced Technology and Engineering Center will be a joint venture between SMCC and the University of Maine […]

PORTLAND — The Planning Board is entering the final stretch of its review of proposed changes to the Waterfront Central Zone, and at their last meeting members hinted they may delve into whether residences should be allowed in the zone. For more than a year, a dozen wharf owners have been working with Planning Department […]

A young resident makes a connection with Cumberland’s history at the dedication of a new Veterans Monument on Memorial Day at Moss Side Cemetery. The stone is the first phase of a project to honor all of the community’s veterans. War veterans drive Cumberland’s Memorial Day parade route in style on Monday, May 31.After Monday’s […]

PORTLAND — After a more than four-year hiatus, the State Theatre is expected to reopen this fall, bringing music back to the 80-year-old building. New York City-based concert promoter The Bowery Presents has teamed up with Vermont promoter Alex Crothers of Higher Ground Presents and longtime local promoter Lauren Wayne to breath life into the […]

PORTLAND — Just in time for warm summer nights, police and Old Port bar owners announced last week that they are launching a text-message network designed to keep each other informed about troublemakers in the city’s entertainment district. The announcement came less than a week after 24-year-old Eric Benson died after being punched once in […]

FREEPORT — Residents of Durham, Freeport and Pownal added more than $245,000 to the proposed Regional School Unit 5 budget at the annual budget meeting on May 26. The unexpected increase – supported by barely 1 percent of the RSU’s eligible voters – sends a $23.6 million fiscal 2011 budget to all voters on Tuesday, June 8, […]

War veterans salute after wreaths are placed in Monument Square at the conclusion of Portland’s Memorial Day parade on Monday.A Portland Police Department color guard leads Monday’s Memorial Day Parade down Congress Street.