SOUTH PORTLAND — A Knightville resident is working to gather community support for a rent stabilization ordinance in the city. Chris Kessler said he and his family have been subject to increasingly unaffordable rents, so he established the Committee for Affordable Housing. He’s asking people who have been “subject to unreasonable rent increases or been forced to […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — A city councilor is being called out by fellow councilors who say he’s conducting council business via a private email account, out of the public’s eye and in violation of city policy. “I can tell you that this council has been conducting public meetings without announcing them, electronically, and that’s an abuse of […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Superintendent of Schools Ken Kunin this week outlined key changes he wants to see, including further study of possibly merging the city’s middle schools, and accommodating an increasing number of English-language learners.  Kunin was hired in April to succeed former Superintendent Suzanne Godin. During his state-of-the-schools presentation Oct. 26 at South Portland High School, […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — The town’s Fire-Rescue department is losing night-time volunteers and is looking to the town for money to hire overnight staff. Fire-Rescue Chief Peter Gleeson and Emergency Medical Services Division Chief Eric Wellman on Monday asked the Town Council to add almost $48,700 to the annual budget for round-the-clock per-diem coverage. They also asked for […]

SCARBOROUGH — Nearing the end of its first month, the addict rehabilitation initiative Operation Hope has helped place 26 people in drug treatment programs across the country. Initiated and led by members of the Scarborough Police Department to combat the heroin and opiate epidemic, Operation Hope offers users an avenue away from addiction that doesn’t necessarily […]