PORTLAND — Hundreds of pieces of the city’s firefighting history will be on display Saturday on Spring Street. The Portland Fire Museum is hosting its sixth annual open house with a block party, antique fire trucks, a jazz band and items from the Portland Veteran Firemen’s Association collection. The association has amassed a collection of […]

PORTLAND — The Gulf of Maine Research Institute has received a $2.4 million federal grant to develop and implement systems that will help institute new ground fishing regulations set to go into effect this year. Traditionally, trawlers seeking prized ground fish like cod, haddock and flounder are limited in the number of days they can […]

PORTLAND — Maine Yacht Center is looking to expand outdoor boat storage and parking at its Kensington Street marina.  To do so, the city must rezone a strip of grassy land that runs along the St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad tracks to Interstate 295. The Planning Board will hold a public hearing Oct. 13 on the […]

PORTLAND — Superintendent of Schools James Morse Sr. will be honored this week by the Maine Children’s Alliance at its annual Champions for Children event at the Freeport Hilton Garden Inn. Morse, who became Portland’s superintendent on July 1, is one of four people from throughout the state who will receive the Giraffe Award, which […]

SCARBOROUGH — Residents who long for a tropical boost during another long Maine winter won’t have to go far. In a new business venture between the owner of Federal Spice, a popular restaurant in Portland, and the owner of a Route 1 building, the flavors and ambiance of the Caribbean may arrive in Scarborough as […]

YARMOUTH — A new science- and energy-based curriculum for elementary school students was launched last week, and a classroom in Yarmouth was the first to implement the lessons. Mary Jo Moore, a fourth-grade teacher at Yarmouth Elementary School, was one of the curriculum testers and now her students are using the energy driven science program. Kathleen, […]

FREEPORT — Voters in November will have to choose between candidates to run the sewer district. But barring any write-in campaigns, they will once again face an uncontested Town Council election. Both Town Council incumbents, District 4 Councilor James Cassida and Councilor-at-Large Charlotte Bishop, are unopposed on the Nov. 3 ballot. District 1 Councilor Genie Beaulieu […]

PORTLAND — City officials said Tuesday that Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. has killed a $15 million retail and residential project that has been planned for six years at Morrill’s Corner. The 20-acre property at the corner of Forest and Allen avenues was going to be turned into a Super Stop & Shop supermarket with […]

NORTH YARMOUTH — Among the Town Charter amendments going before voters Nov. 3 is one that would shift the responsibility for setting fees collected by the town from Town Meeting to the Board of Selectmen. “You’re taking it from Town Meeting, which is a set process, and allowing the selectmen to do it after a public […]

PORTLAND — Increasing budget pressure is pitting two local transportation providers against each other.  Leaders of METRO and the Regional Transportation Program, a non-profit agency that serves elderly and disabled riders in Cumberland County, are clashing over the distribution of funds from an urban transportation grant program administered by the Federal Transit Administration. In 2009, […]