The school’s Dec. 15 celebration will also include a visit from Santa, caroling, a tree lighting and Christmas cookie decorating.
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Couple helping city’s homeless one burrito at a time
The PLC Street Team, a ministry of Portland Life Center, aims to spread hope and love through food and prayer.
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Mercy receives $1 million challenge grant for consolidation
PORTLAND — Northern Light Mercy Hospital has received a $1 million capital campaign challenge grant to support the hospital’s campus consolidation project. The challenge grant, made possible by four anonymous donors, provides a one-to-one match up to $1 million for all gifts made to Mercy’s capital campaign through March 31, 2020. The gift was made […]
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Portland Meetings: Dec. 11-18
Wed. 12/11 5 p.m. Land Bank Commission CH Thur. 12/12 5 p.m. Board of Harbor Commissioners Public Meeting CH Thur. 12/12 4 p.m. METRO Board of Directors 114 Valley St. Mon. 12/16 5 p.m. City Council CH Mon. 12/16 5:30 p.m. Rental Housing Advisory Committee CH Mon. 12/16 6 p.m. Water District Board of Trustees […]
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Sister of Portland man charged with murder recounts his racist comments as trial begins
Chelsey Cardilli testifies in the trial of Mark Cardilli Jr., saying her brother told her that Somali people are gang members, black people shot by police are at fault and Muslims are terrorists.
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Girls’ chorus to sing nationwide via PBS holiday special
The Maine Girls Chorus, now in its second year, provides the soundtrack for “The Magic of Christmas in Alsace,” which airs on Maine Public Television Dec. 20 and 22.
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USDA awards $950K for local markets
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, announced last week that the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service is awarding nearly $950,000 to three Maine institutions to increase consumption of and access to local and regional agricultural products. The Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, the Sustainability Lab in Yarmouth and the Maine Federation of Farmers Markets in Belfast […]
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Youth protest for state action on climate change
Protesters want Maine to become the first state to declare a climate state of emergency and hope to see it become carbon neutral within the next decade.
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YMCA serving as overflow site for newest asylum seekers
PORTLAND – The YMCA of Southern Maine’s Greater Portland Branch will serve as an overflow shelter for the city beginning Monday, Dec. 9, to accommodate a recent influx of asylum seekers. The site is expected to be used as a shelter for about nine days. The YMCA is collecting donations of warm clothes for the […]
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Family, friends hold fundraising event in memory of Isahak Muse
About 100 people gather in Portland to celebrate the life of the 22-year-old who was shot and killed early this year – and to raise money to build a well in Africa.