FALMOUTH — While it’s difficult for small businesses to survive, two local gardening supply businesses have found a way to thrive. Skillins Greenhouses, a fifth-generation family-owned business, opened in 1885. Based at 89 Foreside Road, the business has locations in Brunswick and Cumberland, and a production center on Depot Road. Terry Skillin, the company’s president, […]
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Suspect in Portland recording studio shooting held without bail
PORTLAND — The suspect in the death of one person and the shooting of another May 25 at an Old Port recording studio remained in Cumberland County Jail Tuesday without bail. Johnny Ouch, 20, of Westbrook, was indicted July 10 by a Cumberland County grand jury in the murder of Treyjon Arsenault and for shooting […]
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Chocolate Church in Bath uses crowd-funding to stage 'HMS Pinafore'
BATH — The Chocolate Church Arts Center is looking for a little help from its friends for its September production, Gilbert and Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore.” The 804 Washington St. theater for the first time is employing crowd-funding, or procuring donations from many people via the Internet. The theater has a GoFundMe page at gofundme.com/vrgg2j8. In […]
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Topsham selectmen OK police radar units, job consolidation
TOPSHAM — The Board of Selectmen on July 16 unanimously supported the purchase of police radar units, and combining two part-time positions into one full-time role. The Police Department plans to buy seven radar units to replace aging devices. The department will spend $18,000 from capital funds to purchase the first six, and will be […]
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10 evicted from condemned Portland apartment building
PORTLAND — The city condemned an apartment building on Washington Avenue on Friday, telling a family of eight, the owner and his son that they must vacate the building because it was deemed “unfit for human habitation.” Building owner Isely Lamour was given the eight-page eviction letter after city and fire inspectors went to the […]
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Portland vendors push food carts in new directions
PORTLAND — Two of Portland’s newest food carts are dishing out some rather interesting takes on otherwise ordinary street foods. Snappy’s Tube Steaks, which served its first customers on June 27, is a “truckster” – something between a truck and a cart – that serves nontraditional takes on hot dogs. Owners Ed Shevenell and Kari Williams said […]
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Ship-shape on Portland Harbor, 'hard knocks' on the high seas
PORTLAND — Thousands of people lined the city’s waterfront and nearby parks Saturday and Sunday to see 13 tall ships and the crews that sail them around the world. Some of the ships that visited Portland’s harbor for the Tall Ships Portland festival included the U.S. Coast Guard’s regal white Eagle, and El Galeon Andalucia, […]
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After the fireworks: Late evening at Yarmouth Clam Festival carnival
What happens after the fireworks end and people return home from the carnival? At the Yarmouth Clam Festival on Saturday night, the crowds thinned, but the rides kept spinning until 10:30 p.m. A couple and a child (lower-right) wait for ride to start. An employee waits for customers. Food-court volunteers peer at fireworks Saturday night.
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Swimmers span Peaks to Portland in peak fashion
Scarborough resident Jeff Small approaches East End Beach on Saturday, July 18, during the Peaks to Portland swim race. Small finished 27th. James Yeomans, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, finished first — his fifth consecutive win. Brunswick resident Benjamin Morse edges out Bath resident Hopper McDonough by less than a second at the finish line Saturday, July 19, […]
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Yarmouth Clam Festival turns 50 with jubilant parade
Saco resident Blake Laverriere, 2, gets an up-close look at Steamer — the mascot for Yarmouth Clam Festival — Friday on Main Street during the annual Clam Festival parade. This year the event turns 50. Kathy Kennedy Brown, of Raymond, waves to a packed crowd Friday on Main Street for the Yarmouth Clam Festival Parade Jeff Tarbox, […]