PORTLAND — Hannah Friedman said her 12-year-old daughter was surprised to learn she had won a $10,000 scholarship to a four-year college to study public service. “She said, ‘I didn’t know you could win an award for helping people,’” Friedman recalled.  Rachel Friedman, a seventh-grader at Portland’s Lyman Moore Middle School, won an Outstanding Youth […]

PORTLAND — Like the tides of Casco Bay, creative trends in literature and visual arts ebb and flow. But one local publication has been a beacon through the highs and lows for the last 20 years.  On Sunday, Oct. 25, the Cafe Review, a quarterly journal of poetry, art and reviews, celebrated its 20th anniversary […]

PORTLAND — Despite educators’ efforts to convince high school graduates to attend post-secondary schools, there are always those students who end their educations after 12th grade. Now Portland High School has launched a career center to help them be better prepared for life after high school.  The career center was established by using funding from […]

Third-grader Elisa Membreno and other students at Peaks Island Elementary School spent their Friday morning recess jumping rope to 350, in recognition of the International Day of Climate Action. The number 350 represents the amount of carbon dioxide, in parts per billion, that scientists have identified as the safe upper limit for our atmosphere.

FREEPORT — During an annual meeting marked more by ceremony than business, the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority on Oct. 22 delayed its decision on a lease agreement that could bring Oxford Aviation to Brunswick Naval Air Station. The agency’s anticipated vote was originally scheduled for Thursday. But MRRA Executive Director Steve Levesque last week said […]

Taylor Messerman jumps out of the way, left, as friends Maggie McKenna and Anna Ferdinand mix new colors last weekend as they paint Maine Street storefronts in Brunswick for Halloween

SOUTH PORTLAND — West end residents on Tuesday, Nov. 3, will choose between two lifelong residents vying to represent District 5 on the School Board, a seat being vacated by Stacy Gato, who is not seeking re-election.  Political newcomers and lifelong city residents Alan Livingston, of Sandy Hill Road, and Tappan C. Fitzgerald II, of Massachusetts […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — Six candidates are on the Nov. 3 ballot for three seats on the School Board. The three board members whose terms are expiring are Chairwoman Patricia Brigham and board members Karen Burke and Peter Cotter; only Cotter, a resident of Ocean House Road, is seeking re-election. The other five candidates are John C. […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — The farmland where resident Peter Eastman spent his summers will now be permanently preserved for recreational, agricultural and educational purposes. Eastman granted a conservation easement on the property to the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust this week to ensure protection of the land in perpetuity. “I’ve been thinking about conservation easements for about 30 […]

Unless someone mounts a write-in campaign in the closing days before the Nov. 3 election, South Portland and Cape Elizabeth may have to call a special election to find someone to represent the communities on the Portland Water District Board of Trustees. If not, residents will be without representation until the next general election.  Clerks […]