PORTLAND — Bayside residents frustrated over what they say is an increase in alcohol-fueled crimes in their neighborhood met with local law enforcement authorities and Preble Street Resource Center officials Tuesday to figure out how to curb the activity. That behavior includes public drinking, public urinating and defecating, passing out in the street, vomiting in […]

CUMBERLAND — Town Clerk Nadeen Daniels Tuesday received the 2009 Lorraine M. Fleury Award from the office of the secretary of state. The announcement by Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap came during the opening luncheon in Bangor of Maine’s two-day Elections Conference for municipal clerks and registrars of voters. The annual award, named for a long-time […]

PORTLAND — The mayor has called for a closed-door meeting between the City Council and the city manager, following recent public criticism of city management by a couple of councilors.  Mayor Jill Duson said this week that she hopes a meeting with the nine councilors and City Manager Joe Gray will satisfy the needs of […]

PORTLAND — The fire chief this week planned to inspect space on Maine Wharf that could provide fire-boat crew quarters at a third of the cost proposed at the Maine State Pier. Chief Fred LaMontagne said he was contacted by Joe Malone of Malone Commercial Brokers Monday to see if he wanted to look at […]

PORTLAND — If you have spent any amount of time in Portland, or almost anywhere on the coast of New England, chances are you’ve seen the work of John Calvin Stevens. Take a walk through the Old Port or a leisurely stroll through the streets of the West End, lined with magnificent towering homes, and […]

PORTLAND — A proposed plan for future growth of the Waynflete School campus will be scrutinized by two city planning authorities next week. The Planning Board will visit the campus in Portland’s Western Promenade neighborhood Oct. 6 to get a look at the residential properties the private school could eventually acquire under its proposed overlay […]

PORTLAND — Concerned about a perceived rise in crime, the West End Neighborhood Association is collecting signatures to petition city and school leaders to increase the visibility of the Community Policing Center. It is an effort the district’s city councilor, David Marshall, said he finds surprising. The petition being circulated throughout the West End calls […]

PORTLAND — Since 1973, Literacy Volunteers of Greater Portland has been providing free tutoring to residents who need help reading, writing and speaking English. But financial difficulties could doom the organization by the end of the year.  Like some other nonprofits, the future of Literacy Volunteers, whose operating budget is entirely funded by foundations and […]

PORTLAND — The Peak Performance Maine Marathon takes place Sunday morning, Oct. 4, for the 18th year. As of Tuesday morning, organizers said, 3,145 people had signed up for the marathon and half marathon. Race capacity is 3,500.  There will be several road closures in Portland and Falmouth. Baxter Boulevard between Forest Avenue and Preble […]

CUMBERLAND — “That’s how they made carpets back in the day,” Pat Larrabee of Gray told a group of Mabel I. Wilson School students as they crowded around the barn loom she was operating Monday at the Cumberland County Fair. The demonstration of this authentic 1820 machine for the second-grade students was one of many events […]