PORTLAND — City Councilors will host annual district meetings beginning next week. The meetings are an opportunity for residents to discuss neighborhood issues with their councilor, the mayor and city staff. The schedule is: • District 1, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at the East End Community School. • District 2, Nov. 5 at 7 […]

CUMBERLAND — The Town Council on Monday announced its opposition to two state ballot questions going before voters on Nov. 3. The panel unanimously approved a resolution opposing excise tax reduction, Question 2. A 5-2 majority favored a resolution against the second so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights, Question 4. Council Chairman Ron Copp joined Councilors Michael […]

CUMBERLAND — It may be hard to imagine a die-hard athlete who was born with a heart defect, but Ted Russell is a teen who defies convention. The 18-year-old Greely High School senior, who plays soccer and lacrosse and runs indoor track, had a relatively uneventful birth. “He was a normal weight, he was full-term, everything […]

FALMOUTH — With only a two-week break after the busy summer markets, local farmers and craftsmen will gear up for their first winter farmers market in West Cumberland and Falmouth starting in November. Leslie Fitzgerald, market manager of the Cumberland Farmers Market Association, said the two markets will be available for customers throughout the fall and […]

YARMOUTH — What started as a journey to self-publish his first book has become a successful, small business for Dean Lunt and his wife Michelle. Their independent publishing company, Islandport Press, was recently named the Barnes & Noble 2009 Focus on New England award winner for Outstanding Regional Literature. The award is given annually to a […]

FALMOUTH — Registered voters in Falmouth and Cumberland now have the opportunity to vote early, thanks to the state’s Early Voting Pilot Program. The two communities are among nine selected by the state to participate in the program that began on Monday and will run through Monday, Nov. 2. Different from absentee balloting, early voting […]

Sam Gee, left, Alyson Palacci and Geneva Morley, all of Portland, don’t look too frightened by the demon stalking them outside the iParty store in South Portland last week. Maybe they knew it was only Durward Worster of Scarborough’s Haunted Hayrides dressed as a 9-foot creature to make sure nobody forgets about Halloween.

PORTLAND — A group of vampires from Deering High School are out for blood. But before you reach for the garlic cloves, you should know it is for a good cause.  The cast of Deering High School’s “Dracula” (running Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 29-31) will be scaring up support for a Red Cross blood drive on Oct. […]

PORTLAND — The school Finance Committee on Wednesday is scheduled to receive a draft of program reviews that will become the basis of a budget that looks five years into the future.   The program reviews state the goals, profiles and resources of about 34 school programs, ranging from school nurses to computer technology to […]

PORTLAND — A news correspondent living in Jerusalem will be in Portland Nov. 2 to discuss the conflict in the Middle East. Linda Gradstein, NPR’s Jerusalem correspondent for more than 20 years, is scheduled to speak at the Albert Brenner Glickman Family Library at the University of Southern Maine. The talk is sponsored by the […]