PORTLAND — Immigration is a hot topic in Maine. Some state and local leaders see immigrants as an answer to the state’s slowing growth and aging population. In his recent state of the city speech, Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling advocated for creating an Office for New Americans to assist with job training and business development. Others, […]

PORTLAND — David Weeks is adamant about the future of Palmer Spring Co. “We are not closing down, period,” he said Feb. 4 outside the family business at 351-355 Forest Ave. What Weeks would like to do, however, is move. He and owners of adjacent buildings have offers from developers who want to build a CVS store […]

PORTLAND — The city’s capital improvement budget returns attention to some basic needs, according to City Manager Jon Jennings. “We are really ramping up areas we have neglected, such as our fleet,” Jennings said Feb. 4 as he introduced the $15.1 million budget to the City Council Finance Committee. Jennings has proposed spending $2.9 million for street and […]

PORTLAND — History was made on a rainy afternoon in the Deering High School gym last week, when a new kind of basketball team took the court for the first time. The city’s first Unified basketball team, a partnership between Deering and Portland high schools, combines students who have developmental disabilities with non-varsity student partners […]

PORTLAND — When Kalie Shorr moved from Portland to Nashville to pursue a career in music two years ago, no one who knew her was surprised. That’s because Shorr, now 21, has been serious about making music pretty much her entire life. She grew up singing in church, sang her first solo when she was […]