WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins announced Friday that 12 counties will receive nearly $875,000 in federal funds for emergency food and shelter programs. Cumberland County is expected to receive more than $150,000, while Androscoggin County is expect to receive about $75,500. The funds are being administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency within […]
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Schools eye teachers contract, athletics for savings
PORTLAND — Faced with a nearly $2 million curtailment of state education funds, the School Committee is balancing a need to act quickly with its responsibility to allow time for public discourse on several proposed spending cuts. The committee will hold a public hearing on Jan. 14. at 7 p.m. in Room 250 of Casco Bay […]
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Bishop appeals Vatican ruling on sex abuse
PORTLAND — Bishop Richard Malone of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland is appealing the findings of a Vatican tribunal clearing a Maine priest accused of sexually abusing minors in the 1980s. A Vatican Tribunal, comprised of three priests with special expertise in church law, ruled in August the accusations of sexual abuse against Thomas […]
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Poetic Justice Calender features Portland police poetry, photographs
PORTLAND — Police officers paired with poets and photographers the past few months and the result is a 2009 calendar filled with the poems and photos created by the officers. The calendar is a project of the Arts and Equity Initiative, an arts collaboration between the city and the nonprofit Terra Moto Inc. Director Marty […]
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Mills nomination seen as boon for SBA
PORTLAND — President-elect Barack Obama’s nomination of Karen Gordon Mills of Brunswick as administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration is expected to bring more attention to an agency program that is relatively unknown to both the general public and the banking industry. U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, wrote a letter to Obama earlier this […]
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Store helps STRIVE store write new chapter
SOUTH PORTLAND — A used book store that gives people with disabilities real-life work experience has opened up a new storefront. Last week, Bookworks! opened a new store in Building B at 47 Atlantic Place, an office complex off Foden Road between Gorham Road and Western Avenue. “I love it,” said Cumberland Center resident Timothy […]
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Developer: Bay House condos still on track
PORTLAND — Despite the downward trend in the housing market, a Boston-based developer is forging ahead with plans to construct two condominium buildings in the eastern waterfront district. Demetri Dasco, a partner in Atlas Investment Group of Boston, said last week that he hopes to break ground for construction of The Bay House in the […]
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Merger combines Children's Museum, theater
PORTLAND — The nation’s oldest operating children’s theater has officially become part of the Children’s Museum of Maine. Officials said they hope the combination, announced Dec. 17, will allow the organization to continue to entertain and educate children in all aspects of theater. Although the theater has been operating out of the museum on Free […]
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B&B proposal moves to Town Council (drop) Proposed zoning overhaul elicits mixed responses
CAPE ELIZABETH — The Ordinance Committee Monday voted to allow bed and breakfast inns in restricted residential areas and began discussion on an overhaul of the Business-A zones on Shore Road and Route 77 south of Town Center. The B&B proposal passed quickly – the committee had discussed the matter the previous week, but had […]
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Ice storm hammers Mid-Coast
BRUNSWICK — Last week’s ice storm caused widespread power outages that left many Mid-Coast residents in the dark for several days while town officials, emergency agencies and Central Maine Power Co. scrambled to return the area to normalcy. The storm drew many comparisons to the Ice Storm of 1998, creating more than 250,000 power outages in […]