Officials and local advocates are concerned about strains on services, calling for more longterm recovery options.
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Maine Bicentennial: Portland
In commemoration of Maine’s bicentennial this year, The Forecaster is featuring historical highlights and artifacts from our communities’ past 200 years. This feature can be found in print and online every other week.
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Two city parking garages go ‘touchless’
PORTLAND — The city’s Spring and Elm streets parking garages now are using touchless entry and exit systems. To receive a ticket upon entry, users can wave a hand near the ticket button on the machine and it will dispense a ticket. Touchless payment options upon exiting the garage include Google Pay, Apple Pay, Paypal […]
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Six incumbents bowing out on City Council, school board seats
Candidates line up for November election, including four to replace At-Large Councilor Jill Duson, who has served for two decades.
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Drive-thru food drive planned in Portland
PORTLAND — United Way of Greater Portland is teaming up with Wayside Food Programs to hold a contactless drive-thru food drive from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 18 at Wayside Food Programs, 135 Walton St. The food collected will benefit food pantries throughout Cumberland County. Wayside Food Programs operates five mobile food pantries and […]
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Portland man sentenced to 7½ years in prison for killing sister’s boyfriend
Mark Cardilli Jr. was convicted of manslaughter for the shooting death of Isahak Muse during an argument in the Cardilli family home in March 2019.
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METRO resumes full bus service
PORTLAND — Greater Portland Metro, which provides bus service throughout Portland and parts of South Portland, Scarborough, Falmouth, Westbrook and Gorham, has reinstituted full bus service. Buses, however, will no longer stop at the Westbrook Crossing plaza on the Portland/Westbrook line, but instead will stop across the street at Market Basket at Rock Row. That […]
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Commentary: India Street’s history of innovation, service preceded disruption in HIV care
The clinic offered HIV prevention drugs, access to Narcan and supervised treatment by residents well before 2016.
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Open council seats draw familiar and not-so-familiar candidates in Portland
At-large City Councilor Jill Duson is retiring after more than 2 decades as an elected official and former councilor John Coyne and former sheriff and state Sen. Mark Dion are among 4 looking to replace Kimberly Cook, who is not seeking re-election in District 5.
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Vermont-based company buys Portland industrial space
Redstone intends to lease out the space as soon as October, providing much needed industrial space in the area.