FALMOUTH — Winter is for the birds this weekend at Maine Audubon’s Winter Carnival and Open House. The free, all-ages event will be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, at the organizations headquarters, 1 Gilsland Farm Road. Maine Audubon’s staff naturalist will help festival-goers identify birds while wildlife biologists will instruct families how to […]
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Unsung Hero: Portland YMCA's Terry Swain proves good guys do finish last
PORTLAND — In a sports-mad society where winning matters most, colleges give coaches multi-million dollar contracts, and 30-second Super Bowl spots sell for $4 million, it’s refreshing to meet a person like Terry Swain, aquatics director for the YMCA of Southern Maine. Swain, you see, trains hard for endurance races and then intentionally comes in […]
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Portland police remain mum on probe of Hampshire St. shooting
PORTLAND — Police are remaining largely quiet about an investigation into a shooting late last month that landed one man in the hospital. Lt. James Sweatt of the Portland Police Department said Monday afternoon the case is “complicated” and that he still can’t divulge details about what investigators believe transpired in the early morning hours […]
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Hannaford Bros. to add online ordering, curbside pickup at Yarmouth supermarket
YARMOUTH — The Hannaford Bros. supermarket on Route 1 later this year will begin offering online ordering and curbside pickup services. The move comes as part of a major renovation of the store that began late last month and is scheduled for completion in fall 2014. The service, called Hannaford To Go, allows customers to […]
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Renovated Cumberland County Civic Center ready to reopen in Portland
PORTLAND — Showing off the smaller details in the $33 million renovation of the Cumberland County Civic Center gave architect Michael Johanning great pleasure on Friday, Feb. 7. “There are a lot of simple things, like lighter colors to match the concrete so it blends in,” said Johanning, a senior associate at WBRC Architects and […]
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Portland police celebrate with breakfast of champions
PORTLAND — The Police Department hosted its eighth annual awards breakfast Saturday at Ocean Gateway, to salute officers, units and citizens for helping to make the city a safer place to live and work in 2013. “Throughout the year, we ask your loved ones to do so much, and that means that we ask you […]
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Brunswick council dismisses town manager
BRUNSWICK — A sharply divided Town Council on Monday night engaged in a war of words before voting 5-4 to immediately remove Town Manager Gary Brown from office. Finance Director John Eldridge was named interim town manager in an 8-1 vote, with Councilor Gerald Favreau opposed. Brown’s departure comes seven weeks earlier than his originally […]
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Portland City Hall hires new spokeswoman
PORTLAND — Jessica Shumaker Grondin, a Bangor native with experience as a media specialist for former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, will start next month as the city of Portland’s new communications director. Grondin replaces Nicole Clegg, who left the city’s employment in October 2013 to take a job with Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. […]
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Sound stage operator gives up lease for South Portland Armory
SOUTH PORTLAND — No lights, no cameras, no action. Less than three years after signing a potential 15-year lease for the former South Portland Armory on Broadway, Cape Elizabeth resident Eric Matheson has pulled the plug on the Fore River Sound Stage. “We are packing up now,” Matheson said Monday. “We will be out in […]
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South Portland tar sands panel ready to get to work
SOUTH PORTLAND — The task facing the three-member committee drafting an ordinance on tar sands was explained Monday by City Councilors. But how the committee finds an enforceable way to keep unrefined tar and oil sands out of the city remained open-ended, as facilitator Jeff Edelstein and committee members Russell Pierce Jr., David Critchfield and […]