PORTLAND — The City Clerk’s Office is looking for applicants to fill several vacancies on city boards and committees. Needed are one member of the Board of Assessment Review, two resident members of the Pesticide Management Advisory Committee, two members of the Planning Board and three members of the Police Citizen Review Subcommittee. The city […]
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Photos: Long tradition of Nativity pageant continues at First Parish in Portland
More than 50 cast members re-create the live scene at the church on Congress Street.
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Maine Observer: After a long career, it’s hard to let go of an identity
Teachers help students find themselves. But it works the other way, too.
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Commentary: Proposed Maine local option tax would be a losing proposition
Border-county businesses would forfeit sales, and taxpayers in most of the state’s municipalities would see little benefit.
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Portland man charged with murder takes stand in own defense
Mark Cardilli Jr. testifies about his decision to retrieve the gun he used to kill Isahak Muse, saying he was justified in using it to threaten Muse when he wouldn’t leave the family’s home.
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Nativity pageant tradition continues Sunday in Portland
The pageant has been the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church’s Christmas gift to the community since 1926.
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Influx of asylum seekers fills Portland’s overflow shelters
Nearly 170 people, most from sub-Saharan Africa, have arrived in Portland in the past three weeks and city officials say they’ve run out of space to shelter them.
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United to expand summer service to Denver with daily flights from Portland
The expansion of its seasonal service follows similar steps by other airlines that boost efforts by the Portland International Jetport to improve its connections with western destinations.
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Housing, tax relief among top goals for new Portland mayor and council
The City Council vows to focus on affordable housing, homelessness, easing the property tax burden and improving public transportation over the next year.
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Portland man’s mother testifies she tried to call 911 before he fatally shot sister’s boyfriend
The defense in Mark Cardilli Jr.’s murder trial tries to use Suzanne Cardilli’s testimony to contradict statements her daughter made about the death of her boyfriend, Isahak Muse.