PORTLAND — Richard Lobor, who was killed Nov. 21, 2014, in an apartment on Brighton Avenue, may have been acting as a peacekeeper during a dispute, according to a police affidavit filed in the Cumberland County Unified Criminal Docket. The affidavit was released Thursday, Jan. 15, after the initial court appearance by Abdirahman Huessin Haji-Hassan, […]
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Portland children's hospital's patient tutoring program gets funding jolt
PORTLAND — It’s cramped, and it caters to students learning everything from the basics of reading to trigonometry. And now the classroom on the sixth floor corner in the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center may be fully funded and supplied, with the Jan. 15 launch of a $250,000 endowment fund created by […]
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Portland High School students sample college chemistry at USM
PORTLAND — A handful of Portland High School students came to the University of Southern Maine last week to answer one question: what’s killing fish? On Jan. 15, the USM Chemistry Department hosted an environmental science class from PHS for a project-based lab in the college’s science building. The lab was an abbreviated version of […]
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Portland welcomes inaugural Winterfest on Friday
PORTLAND — Participants will be able to slide it, shoot it, sculpt it or search for it at the first-ever Portland Winterfest beginning Friday, Jan. 23. Organized by Portland’s Downtown District, the festival opens with the Winterfest Rail Jam from 5-7 p.m. on Spring Street between Center and Union streets. Snowboarders sponsored by Long’s Board […]
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Portland Tenants Union to meet next week
PORTLAND — The Portland Tenants Union will meet for the second time on Thursday, Jan. 29, at 6 p.m. in Room 24 at City Hall, according to co-founder Grace Damon. Damon and Catherine Wilson, whose son lived at 20 Noyes St. but was not at home during a fatal fire Nov. 1, 2014, founded the […]
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Portland schools to provide budget forum
PORTLAND — The Portland Public Schools will host a town hall-style meeting on the fiscal year 2016 budget on Thursday, Jan. 29, at 6:30 p.m. in the Lyman Moore Middle School library. The meeting is an opportunity for the public to offer input and feedback on budgeting priorities for the 2015-2016 school year. The district […]
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Portland police: Same robbers hit 2 banks within 15 minutes
PORTLAND — Police said the same people robbed two branches of KeyBank within 15 minutes Friday morning. The pair, wearing masks, entered the KeyBank at 400 Forest Ave. at 11:05 a.m. and demanded cash from tellers. They fled on foot toward Fessenden Street, according to a Police Department press release. At 11:20 a.m. the same […]
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Cape Elizabeth school superintendent a finalist for Massachusetts job
CAPE ELIZABETH — Superintendent of Schools Meredith Nadeau is one of three finalists for the school chief job in Weston, Massachusetts. Nadeau on Thursday toured the district and spent the day meeting parents, community members, students, and faculty. The day ended with an interview with the Weston School Committee. According to the district’s website, a new […]
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South Portland school budget faces pressure
SOUTH PORTLAND — Based on preliminary budget estimates, the School Department is looking at the largest tax bite in eight years. In a joint meeting Wednesday night that some participants saw as premature, city councilors and School Board members were left to loosely conjecture about fiscal 2016 budget impacts that have yet to be handed down […]
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South Portland urged to keep focus on urban-impaired streams
SOUTH PORTLAND — Members of the Water Resource Protection Department and the Cumberland County Soil and Water Conservation District on Tuesday advised the Planning Board on how to best deal with storm-water runoff in five urban-impaired streams across the city. The federal Clean Water Act of 2003 has been the impetus for such efforts across the […]