In this photo taken around 1880 are Harpswell residents Mrs. Cram, Kate Merriman (born 1869), Lydia Augusta Merriman (born 1857), Belle Whitehouse, Edith White and an unknown woman. Kate and Lydia Merriman were the daughters of Jacob Henry Merriman, a farmer and blacksmith, and Mary Jane Webber. In commemoration of Maine’s bicentennial this year, The […]
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Posted inPortland Forecaster
University of New England lays out five-year plan for Portland campus
The top priority of the plan is the relocation of the College of Osteopathic Medicine from Biddeford into a new building behind the old armory on Stevens Avenue.
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Veteran firefighters tender back-to-back resignations in Falmouth
Erik Knudsen and Sarah Beliveau both submitted their resignations from the Falmouth Fire Department on Oct. 26.
Posted inPortland Forecaster, Southern Forecaster
New study to look at passenger ferry between Portland, South Portland
SOUTH PORTLAND — A new traffic study aims to collect data that might put to rest once and for all the feasibility of a passenger ferry service linking South Portland and Portland. “There isn’t a hard and fast study that’s done the work we’re doing now,” said Milan Nevajda, director of planning and development in […]
Posted inPortland Forecaster
Running With Scissors buys its longtime space
After close to eight years of renting 250 Anderson St., Running With Scissors has bought the building.
Posted inPortland Forecaster
Candidates, referendum questions pack Portland ballot
The city has already received more than 20,300 absentee ballots.
Posted inPortland Forecaster
Schools update policy on challenging library materials
A new policy adopted Oct. 6 by the school board clarifies how library materials are selected and how challenges to that material can be made
Posted inPortland Forecaster
Pandemic impacts local English language learners
COVID 19 has forced LearningWorks to offer its English language programming virtually after a 20-year history of in-person tutoring.
Posted inPortland Forecaster
Scout wants kids to read all about themselves
Eagle Scout Harrison Fream built a Little Free Library in Bayside’s Kennedy Park to get books into the hands of students on the East End.
Posted inNorthern Forecaster
Falmouth parents, educators in opposition over hybrid learning model
Some parents continue to push for students to be integrated back to full-time, in-person learning.