PORTLAND — Federal officials and their aides Monday said they are ready to try to help asylum seekers more quickly obtain permission to work. But they were also blunt about the likelihood of speedy results. Immigration reform “is a slow political turtle in the House,” U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, said during a 75-minute City Hall […]
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Opponents of roadside zoo TV show picket South Portland production company
SOUTH PORTLAND — More than 20 demonstrators gathered quietly at Legion Square on Saturday, Aug. 29, to protest alleged cruelties behind the Animal Planet show “Yankee Jungle.” Produced by Lone Wolf Media of 10 Cottage Road, and filmed at DEW Haven, a nonprofit exotic animal sanctuary and roadside zoo owned by Julie and Bob Miner in […]
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Cumberland Fire Dept. to celebrate centennial
CUMBERLAND — The Fire Department is having a party Sept. 12 that has been 100 years in the making. With slide shows of old photos, educational activities and food, the department’s centennial celebration at the Fairgrounds will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The free event will include displays of the department’s old dispatch system, […]
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Video to capture annual North Yarmouth Fun Day
NORTH YARMOUTH — The town’s annual Fun Day will have documentary footage to prove just how much fun it is. CGI, a video production company based in Rochester, New York, has been working with Cumberland County on its websites, and all the county’s communities have been invited to create one-minute videos to showcase, according to […]
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Back-to-school peeks on Peaks
Tabitha and Calvin Foster enjoy hamburgers and salad at the Peaks Island Elementary School Back to School BBQ on Monday, Aug. 31. They’re a little camera shy and giggle as Tabitha hides behind her hands and Calvin peeks from behind his burger. Teacher Zoe Ryan-Humphrey helps Isaiah Olson with a hot dog at the Peaks […]
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Value of Portland Co. drawings depends on perspective
PORTLAND — Potential developers of the Portland Co. complex at 58 Fore St. said concept drawings introduced at an Aug. 26 press conference were revealing. Opponents who want to limit building heights on the property criticized what the drawings did not include. “We are celebrating public open space that allows access to the waterfront,” CPB2 partner […]
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Falmouth backpack brigade
National Council of Jewish Women volunteers Ruth Cohen, left, Rena Becker, and Becky DeLois help stuff 250 backpacks with school supplies on Hunter Way in Falmouth on Aug. 30. The backpacks will be donated to kindergartners at Riverton Elementary School, Reiche Elementary School and East End Community School in Portland.
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Portland board appoints school chief search committee
PORTLAND — A committee has been formed to manage the search for Portland Public Schools’ next superintendent. The superintendent search committee includes School Board members Laure Davis, Anna Trevorrow, Marnie Morrione and Jenna Vendil. Trevorrow and Morrione will serve as co-chairwomen. School Board Chairwoman Sarah Thompson said the job of the committee is to manage […]
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‘Adventure’ calls, freight sails from Portland to Boston
PORTLAND — As she walked along the wharf at 400 West Commercial St. last Thursday, Leah Cook had a question. “So who is schlepping?” she asked of almost a dozen volunteer stevedores helping to go back to the future of seafaring with Maine Sail Freight, a project designed to get consumers and producers to re-examine sustainable interstate […]
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Nova Star ferry gets $1.5M in advance of hearing
PORTLAND — Nova Star Cruises got another $1.5 million (Canadian) from the province of Nova Scotia last week, as the company’s leader is scheduled to testify Thursday before lawmakers there. The province disclosed the latest disbursement on a web page where it posts transactions with the ferry company, tallying this season its take of a […]