PORTLAND — In the three years since it was formed, the Portland Education Foundation is making a substantial impact on funding and initiatives in the city’s schools. The foundation recently announced a $50,000 grant from The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, which followed a smaller grant of $15,000 from a local family to support educational opportunities […]
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Portland seeks broker to jump-start business park
PORTLAND — The sound of vehicles on the Maine Turnpike has yet to be supplanted by the hum of industry at the Portland Technology Park off Rand Road. Yet as the city seeks bids from real estate companies to broker sales for three vacant lots at the site, Economic Development Director Greg Mitchell said the purpose […]
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People & Business: April 25
Recognition Atlantic Federal Credit Union has been named one of the “healthiest” credit unions in the country by Deposit Accounts.com, a bank account comparison website. Atlantic placed in the top 2 percent of all federally insured credit unions in America with a grade of A+. Atlantic was reviewed on a number of factors, including capitalization, […]
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'Boot camp' preps at-risk Portland kids for college
PORTLAND — Cultivating confidence, self-esteem and a strong work ethic are key to helping anyone achieve success. But it’s especially important for young minority males, according to Eugene Williams, founder of the College Orientation Workshop. For 10 years now Williams has partnered with Portland High School and Unum to provide the opportunity for a local youth […]
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$45M tax break for Bath Iron Works becomes law
BATH — A potential $45 million tax break for Bath Iron Works became law April 4 when it was signed by Gov. Paul LePage. The governor’s signature followed a 117-31 approval of LD 1781 in the state House of Representatives March 27, and 25-9 support in the Senate the next day. The votes followed a […]
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'Bath Bags' to roll out in advance of plastic bag ban
BATH — The city will soon have a brand new bag. “Bath Bags” – free, reusable containers geared toward addressing a ban on the distribution of disposable plastic shopping bags and polystyrene containers – will debut by the end of the month. The City Council authorized the ban in separate votes last October and November. The […]
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'Wheels Up' campaign hopes to take Brunswick museum to new heights
BRUNSWICK — In the midst of Brunswick Landing, where a business campus and airport have turned the former U.S. Navy base into a bustling hub of activity, sits a retro remnant of its past. The former base chapel, a nearly 14,000-square-foot building looks nondescript from outside. But inside it is being transformed into the new and […]
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‘Holy’ season in Portland makes for bumpy going
PORTLAND — Pour, pound, repeat. Be ready to do it again. Pothole season has arrived early in Portland, and when Public Works crews aren’t clearing snow, they’re patching city streets. “We are about a month ahead,” Keith Emery said Jan. 26 as he, Marty Tuttle and Ryan Sullivan prepared to fill a hole on the edge of Warren […]
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‘Long-term’ solution delayed in Brunswick water crisis
BRUNSWICK — The town continues to truck water from the Brunswick-Topsham Water District to Bay Bridge Estates, a mobile home park off Route 1 where park owners began rationing water earlier this month. Town Manager John Eldridge told the Town Council Tuesday that park owners said an additional well under construction at the park will not […]
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'Book Fairy' finds no shortage of helpers in Yarmouth
YARMOUTH — Family literacy advocate Pam Leo told an eager group of preschoolers last week that each fairy has a job and each fairy needs helpers, like them, to complete that job. As founder of the Book Fairy Pantry Project – a grassroots family literacy movement which, with help from volunteers, collects and donates children’s books to families […]