Participants carry a 900-foot “River of Pride” flag along Congress Street during the Portland Pride parade on Saturday, June 18. The annual celebration of the LGBTQ community drew thousands of people in downtown Portland. (Dan D’Ippolito / For The Forecaster) A lone protester is surrounded by participants at the Portland Pride Festival June 18, where the sign […]
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Portland man indicted on 100-plus child porn charges
PORTLAND — A city man faces a July 6 dispositional conference at Cumberland County Unified Criminal Docket after his June 10 indictment on 110 charges related to child pornography. Glenn R. Strout, 53, of 139 Beverly St., was indicted on 22 counts of Class B dissemination of sexually explicit materials and 88 counts of Class C possession of […]
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Portland elementary school principal charged with drunken driving
PORTLAND — An elementary school principal is scheduled to appear in court next month after she was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. Dawn L. Kenniston, 55, of Scarborough, was arrested June 6 shortly before 9 p.m. in South Portland. Kenniston has been principal at Fred P. Hall Elementary School since […]
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Portland welcomes new Americans on World Refugee Day
PORTLAND — World Refugee Day took on a local flavor June 17 as 24 people became citizens in a City Hall ceremony. “It just feels good to be a citizen,” said Lewiston resident Sahra Osman Abdi, a Somalian who has been in America for 12 years. The new citizens were refugees from nine nations and are residents […]
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Local residents arrested at BIW protest over ship christening
BATH — Several local residents were arrested after a group of protesters staged a blockage of Washington Street Saturday morning outside a ship christening at Bath Iron Works. The 12 people charged were part of Maine Veterans for Peace and the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, which was protesting the christening […]
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Hiring process for SoPo manager on Monday agenda
SOUTH PORTLAND — The City Council will meet in a second executive session Monday, June 20, prior to the regularly scheduled meeting, to discuss the process of filling the city manager position. City Manager Jim Gailey, who announced his resignation earlier this month, has held the position for nearly a decade. At the end of July, […]
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Freeport Farmers Market calls it quits
FREEPORT — The local farmers market will not reopen. In recent years the market had been held on Friday afternoons at L.L. Bean’s Moose Parking Lot. Angela Streeter, owner of The Craftin’ Scot, who managed the market, said vendors began dropping out last year, amid lagging sales. “We tried to donate with vouchers for people who […]
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Cape Elizabeth seeks ideas for 166-year-old school building
CAPE ELIZABETH — The town is seeking proposals for reuse of the former Spurwink School. The Spurwink School Reuse Committee is accepting proposals until June 24. The 166-year-old building served as the temporary home of the Thomas Memorial Library while the library was being renovated, but has been unoccupied since February. The committee includes Town Councilors Caitlin […]
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South Portland weighs requiring Mill Creek buildings to report energy use
SOUTH PORTLAND — Planning Board members were divided in a workshop Tuesday night about standards that would require some building owners in the Mill Creek area to make public how much energy and water their buildings use. The intention behind the proposal from the Planning and Development Department and Sustainability Coordinator Julie Rosenbach is to trim […]
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Cape Elizabeth limits parking on street near popular beach
CAPE ELIZABETH — Parking on Surf Road is now limited to one side of the street. Town councilors on June 13 amended parking regulations to ban street parking on the southwest side of Surf Road, closest to Fort Williams. The change was approved 5-0, with Councilors Molly MacAuslan and Kathy Ray absent. The Town Council also discussed […]