PORTLAND — City councilors are preparing to put an ordinance designed to protect city parks on a fast track to enactment by April 14. Elements of the ordinance were discussed at a council workshop Monday night, and the full text is expected to be discussed at a March 24 council workshop that will also involve […]

PORTLAND — A city resident remains in critical condition at Maine Medical Center after being struck by a car on Forest Avenue on Saturday evening. Police said Elliot Burton, 74, was trying to cross Forest Avenue at Pitt Street around 6:40 p.m. when he was struck by a 2006 Toyota Camry driven by Falmouth resident […]

PORTLAND — Riverton residents Saharo Sharif-Isaack and Safiya Mohamed did not quote Shakespeare last Friday when talking about improving their neighborhood, but they do know the value of a picture. “I think it shows what we are really capable of doing. We are people that want a change,” Sharif-Isaack said about a project called Photovoice, […]

PORTLAND — Some city departments and services could be consolidated at 212 Canco Road over the next five years if councilors agree to a lease-purchase agreement and lease payments for the next three years. Approval of a $2.9 million sales agreement to be executed by 2018 and three-year lease payments totalling $230,000 through 2017 will […]

PORTLAND — As many as four corrections officers could face disciplinary action after two inmates at the Cumberland County Jail were discovered to have had sex in a maximum-security cell. Michael D’Angelo, 34, of Middleborough, Mass., and Renee Glantz, 23, of Windham, will likely not face charges after Glantz left her cell Saturday around 11:15 […]

PORTLAND — City councilors have another month to decide whether to appeal a federal court decision that struck down a city ordinance prohibiting loitering on median strips. The U.S. District Court in Portland has granted an extension to April 14 because, city Corporation Counsel Danielle West-Chuhta said, the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals in […]