PORTLAND — The Greater Portland Transit District, which operates the METRO bus service, will receive a $2 million federal grant to replace five aging members of its fleet, U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, said Monday. The Federal Transit Administration grant will pay for 35-foot buses that run on compressed natural gas and emit less air […]
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Planned expansion of Portland's Casco Bay High School is an inside job
PORTLAND — Alan Kuniholm graduated from high school in 1972, but this fall he briefly attended classes at Casco Bay High School. It was an “embedment strategy,” the 59-year-old architect said. His goal was to study students in their setting, within the halls and classrooms of their building. Kuniholm is principal at Portland-based PDT Architects […]
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Cumberland Center, Foreside to get natural gas this year
CUMBERLAND — Installation of the main natural gas line into Cumberland, Falmouth and Yarmouth is due to begin in May, and Blanchard, Tuttle and part of Foreside roads are among those to be brought online this year. The Town Council heard a natural gas progress report Monday from Emily Fisher, a special projects coordinator for […]
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Reapportionment shakes up Cumberland County districts
PORTLAND — The nomination process for the next Cumberland County commissioner from District 3 began this month, two years ahead of schedule. Last spring, when state legislators reshaped Maine’s House and Senate districts in response to the 2010 U.S. Census, they also reconfigured the state’s county districts and changed the terms of the commissioners who […]
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Cohen headlines Martin Luther King Jr. Day events in Portland
PORTLAND — The city is preparing to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with gospel music, a public forum on issues of social inequality, and the traditional community-wide breakfast, where former U.S. Defense Secretary and former U.S. Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine, will speak. The annual celebration is sponsored by the city, the NAACP Portland Branch […]
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Add search for new superintendent to Regional School Unit 5 to-do list
FREEPORT — Regional School Unit 5 Superintendent Shannon Welsh will step down when her contract expires on June 30. It remains to be seen how Freeport’s potential withdrawal from the RSU, which also includes Durham and Pownal, will impact the search for a new superintendent. “When you’re creating a brand new organization, it takes a […]
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Portland clinic to provide free legal aid to homeless
PORTLAND — People who are homeless will soon not have to also be lawyer-less. Volunteer attorneys, in partnership with Preble Street, are launching a free legal clinic for homeless individuals. The Maine Homeless Legal Project, announced at a press conference Jan. 9, is expected to be serving clients by April. Lawyers will meet with the […]
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Frigid weather no match for Portland-Falmouth bridge builders
PORTLAND — A $24 million project to construct a new bridge between Portland and Falmouth is on budget and on schedule. The new Martin’s Point Bridge, which has been under construction for more than a year, is on track to open in May, thanks to the efforts of a crew that works year-round, despite unusually […]
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Portland targets use of plastic shopping bags, polystyrene packaging
PORTLAND — A City Council task force on Monday began drafting an ordinance that would charge grocery and convenience-store shoppers a 10-cent “waste reduction fee” for each disposable bag used to package their purchases. Councilor Ed Suslovic, chairman of the Green Packaging Working Group, said the council could consider the ordinance in the next few […]
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Brunswick man arrested for assault, preventing 911 call
BRUNSWICK — A 28-year-old man was arrested early Saturday, Jan. 11, after allegedly assaulting his live-in girlfriend and destroying her phone when she tried to call 911. The man, Jose Rodriguez, previously fled their Cumberland Street apartment the day before around 6 p.m., when police responded to a call the 28-year-old woman made using a […]