PORTLAND — Casco Bay Lines employees will rally Friday to express their frustration about working for more than a year without a contract. The ferry service has 34 employees – all but four top-level managers – who are members of Local 333 of the International Longshoreman’s Association. Bill Harrigan, a Portland native who is president […]

PORTLAND — Although the Portland School Committee on April 7 unanimously approved a new schedule for the city’s four high schools, students will have to wait until the end of the month to find out courses that will be offered. Superintendent of Schools James C. Morse Sr. said administrators had hoped to finalize the schedule […]

PORTLAND — More than 100 Waynflete students and community members stood together Saturday evening in support of people who have faced hatred and bigotry because of their sexual orientation or beliefs. “It was very heartening,” Waynflete Headmaster Mark Segar said about the demonstration. The private West End school was targeted in February by the Kansas-based […]

PORTLAND — Leanne Fisher has seen first hand how Ruth’s Reusable Resources can help schools by soliciting office supplies from local companies and offering them to teachers at little to no cost. This school year, 3Rs has given away more than $3.4 million worth of supplies to local schools, many of which have faced significant […]

CUMBERLAND — Terry Skillin makes his way between multi-colored rows of blooming geraniums and pansies, smiling almost as brightly as the flowers around him. Skillin is the fourth generation of gardeners to run Skillins Greenhouses, with its three locations in Falmouth, Cumberland and Brunswick, and it’s clear he enjoys his job. His son, Chad, who […]

PORTLAND — The Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation System has created an eight-minute video to educate the public and, in the process, drum up support for underfunded projects. As a federally funded program, PACTS cannot actively lobby state or federal officials for more funding. While the video presents viewers with the funding problem and asks them […]

PORTLAND — The former president of M.W. Sewall & Co. was the top bidder in an auction for assets of the Bath fuel company last week. Edward “Ned” Sewall III, president of M.W. Sewall from 1995 to 2007, offered about $4.7 million on April 6 for the home heating oil operations of his family’s company. […]