PORTLAND — The School Department on Tuesday announced that Marcia Gendron, principal of Reiche Community School, will be the new principal at East End Community School. Gendron will move to East End Community School beginning July 1. She will replace Carol Dayn, the principal since 2006, who resigned in April. Gendron has served as assistant […]

CUMBERLAND — The Town Council voted 6-1 Monday to issue a mass gathering permit for a girls youth lacrosse jamboree, while waiving or reducing some of the related fees. Since he expected there to be no more than 400 people present at the Twin Brook recreation facility at any one time during the June 5 event, […]

FREEPORT — The Regional School Unit 5 Board of Trustees was expected to adopt a $23.6 million fiscal year 2011 school budget on Wednesday, May 12. The board discussed the proposed budget and made no changes in a special budget workshop on May 5. The total budget is $224,000 more than this year, an increase of […]

YARMOUTH — This year’s Yarmouth Clam Festival parade theme, “Three Cheers for Champions: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” will honor retired tree warden Frank Knight, 101, and Herbie, the American elm he repeatedly saved from disease. Herbie, which stood on the corner of East Elm and Yankee Drive for 217 years, was removed in January because […]

PORTLAND — A local author has published a book that explores the heyday of Irish longshoremen on the city’s waterfront. In “Seated By the Sea,” published by University Press of Florida, Munjoy Hill native Michael Connolly explores eight decades of Irish immigrants and the unions they created and belonged to as longshoremen. “I’ve been working […]

PORTLAND — Students in King Middle School’s “Four Freedoms” learning expedition are getting a first-hand education in free speech after last weekend’s state Republican convention. While the convention was held at the Portland Expo, GOP organizations from Maine’s 16 counties were each given private meeting spaces in King classrooms. One of those classrooms is run […]

PORTLAND — Sixteen units of affordable housing could be under construction in less than a year at the former Marada Adams School on Munjoy Hill. The City Council Monday night approved selling about half of the 1.5-acre property to Avesta Housing for $250,000. The deal has been nearly two years in the making, and was […]

PORTLAND — Discussion of a deal months in the works between the city and a prominent law firm is expected to enter the public arena this week, when a City Council committee debates granting a tax break to help move the firm to a waterfront building. Pierce Atwood, currently at One Monument Square, wants to […]

PORTLAND — A $25,000 grant from the city will help finance the finishing touches for a 12-lane bowling alley in Bayside. Greg Mitchell, the city’s economic development director, said the grant for Bowl Portland was approved last week by the Downtown Portland Corp., a city-affiliated group created in 1991 to provide financial assistance to downtown […]

PORTLAND — The School Department is seeking a federal grant that could lead to significant changes at two of the city’s three high schools. Superintendent of Schools James C. Morse Sr. said the district is finalizing an application for a five-year, $11 million federal grant to make significant structural and instructional changes at Portland High […]