BRUNSWICK — The field of candidates for Brunswick’s town manager position has been reduced to two finalists.  Gary Brown, currently the town’s acting town manager, and Laurie Smith, the assistant city manager in Auburn, emerged from last week’s interview sessions as the Town Council’s top choices. The council interviewed Brown and Smith on Friday following […]

The elite triathletes kick off last Saturday’s third annual Zone Urban Epic triathlon with a half-mile swim off Portland’s East End Beach. A bike race along Baxter Boulevard followed before ending with a run to the Maine State Pier for more than 300 competitors.

PORTLAND — The City Council next week will discuss recent changes at the Riverside Recycling Facility, including what can be dumped for free. The council is also expected to discuss work by the Community Development Committee to develop a recommendation concerning the future of the Maine State Pier. As of July 1, several changes were […]

PORTLAND — The school district on Thursday announced the appointment of Beverly Coursey as the new principal of Nathan Clifford Elementary School. Coursey, who holds a doctorate in educational leadership, management and policy from Seton Hall University, previously served as principal of two schools in School Union 44, which includes Sabattus and Litchfield. She is […]

PORTLAND — After being closed for three years, the Portland Housing Authority has opened its Section 8 housing voucher program to new applicants. Deputy Director Mark Adelson said the opening of the waiting comes at a time when more families are looking for help because they have lost their jobs or had their hours reduced. […]

PORTLAND — Members of the local firefighters union, unhappy with recent layoffs in their department, are now disputing how administrators chose who to fire. City Manager Joe Gray, meanwhile, says the union is making false statements about contract negotiations and the timing of the layoffs. The International Association of Firefighters Local 740, which represents about 240 […]

PORTLAND — The Bible Society of Maine is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year with a display at the Portland Public Library and a bicentennial dinner reception. The society, located at 519 Congress St., donates thousands of Bibles each year to Maine prisons, church outreach programs and Seafarer’s Friend, a ministry providing outreach for Merchant […]

PORTLAND — After a month’s delay, crews are back to work on a new creative play-scape in Deering Oaks Park. City spokeswoman Nicole Clegg said the project was originally scheduled to be complete by July 1, but a nearly month-long delay brought on by a rainy June pushed the finish date to mid-August.  The new […]

PORTLAND — Police Officer Henry Small, a member of the Hazardous Devices Unit, has been, on occasion, called away from his family to deactivate bombs in an 85-pound armored suit and a helmet as heavy as a bowling ball. Officer Andrew Hutchins of the diving team has had to plunge into chilly waters in February […]

PORTLAND — An Old Port hotel owner has stopped pursuing plans to build a boutique waterfront hotel on a Commercial Street wharf. In a July 10 letter to City Planner Bill Needelman, copied to several city officials, an attorney for Eric Cianchette informed Needelman that Cianchette’s Great Maine Wharf LLC would not pursue the Maine […]