YARMOUTH — Frank H. Harrison Middle School will receive $20,000 worth of technology in a competition that challenges students to demonstrate how science, technology, engineering and mathematics (the STEM fields) can be used to improve their local communities. The school was one of 51 nationwide chosen to compete in the second phase of the Samsung […]
Forecaster News
Posted inPortland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Portland forum to provide update on Capisic Pond
PORTLAND — The city will again host a meeting to update the public on plans to bring new life to Capisic Pond and its surrounding park. City Councilor Ed Suslovic will host the forum, scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 19, at 6:30 p.m., at the Deering High School cafeteria, 370 Stevens Ave. The last public meeting, […]
advertisement
Posted inPortland Forecaster, The Forecaster
India Street neighborhood seen as turning point for Portland planning
PORTLAND — Plans for redesigning the city’s India Street neighborhood got a shot in the arm Monday, when planners from the University of California presented their recommendations for making the city’s most historic area more environmentally and economically sustainable. More than a dozen people turned out to hear professor Stephen Wheeler and a team of […]
Posted inPortland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Circus life pays off for Portland-grown performer
PORTLAND — See the world, join the circus. Such is the life of Portland native and Waynflete School graduate Amanda Crockett. Crockett, 34, is a performer with Cirque du Soleil. She has a daily role in “Michael Jackson One,” an ongoing production in Las Vegas, but her work has taken her all over the globe. […]
Posted inPortland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Portland Pirates could skate to Saco, or beyond
PORTLAND — Unless an agreement is reached soon, the Portland Pirates hockey team could be moving to Saco, or leaving Maine entirely. With attempts to re-open lease negotiations between the Cumberland County Civic Center and its anchor tenant – and to bring new blood to the arena’s board of trustees – as frozen as the December […]
Posted inPortland Forecaster, Southern Forecaster, The Forecaster
A South Portland family tradition: Christmas dinner for homeless vets in Portland
PORTLAND — Jake Myrick and his family have their plans ready for Christmas Day. “We have our Christmas done by 10:30, we are at the club by 11, peeling potatoes,” Myrick said Monday as he talked about a family tradition turning five years old next week. The club is the Boys & Girls Club at […]
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
1 man dead, 1 injured in Topsham crash
TOPSHAM — Police are investigating the cause of a motor vehicle accident Dec. 16 that left one man dead and another with severe injuries. Police Chief Chris Lewis said dispatchers received word at 8:29 p.m. of the head-on collision, which occurred in the area of Route 196 and Roberts Hill Road. Howard Wilson, 70, of […]
Posted inPortland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Portland council OKs School Department move
PORTLAND — The City Council on Monday approved plans to spend roughly $3.6 million to move the School Department’s Central Office, West Day Treatment Program, and Multilingual and Multicultural Center to a downtown building. The new school facilities will be at 353 Cumberland Ave., a three-story, 50,000-square-foot building that was formerly the home of Goodwill Industries. […]
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
From bog to beautiful: Cranberry wreath company launches in Freeport
FREEPORT — Where Martha Stewart failed, Deena Prestegard is succeeding. The Freeport self-starter devised a way to craft Maine cranberries into a striking seasonal emblem: the holiday wreath. Unlike the domestic doyenne, whose cranberry wreath attempts were documented as withering on the vine in her attempt to make the decorations in 2007, Prestegard has built […]
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Yarmouth graffiti tradition wears thin with some residents
YARMOUTH — John Holmes was driving on the new Exit 15 interchange of Interstate 295 when he noticed graffiti on the rock wall that flanks the exit ramp. He was not pleased. “I was fit to be tied,” Holmes said last week. “I felt personally attacked.” Holmes and several other Yarmouth residents brought the issue […]