For 11 years, the Springer’s jewelry chain has offered refunds if it snows 6 inches at its Portsmouth, N.H., store on Christmas Day.
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Portland’s Polar Express thriving despite uncertain future
The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad move is delayed, but still planned, after hitting fundraising frost heave.
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Children act out Nativity story at Portland church
On Christmas Eve, their pageant fills the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
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Dine Out Maine: At El Corazon, a dizzying array of menu options – and that’s not a good thing
The results are frustratingly mixed at the Portland restaurant that started as a food truck.
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‘We were called to do this,’ Portland toddler’s parents say on adoption day
When the Maynards met Alden, he was anxious and couldn’t focus. Two years later, the 3-year-old is in a courtroom, calm and entranced by balloons, as his new parents vow ‘to be everything for him.’
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Last-minute shoppers jam stores and roads as messy mix of snow and ice bears down on Maine
The snow was expected to give way Saturday morning to freezing rain that could coat southern and central Maine with as much as one-third of an inch of ice.
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Marchers remember the 40 homeless people who died in Portland area in 2017
About 150 people attended the 23rd Homeless Persons’ Memorial Vigil in downtown Portland, holding candles and reading the names of the deceased aloud.
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Vegan Kitchen: All I want for Christmas is some vegan fast food
Lots of other places have them, and there are plenty of good reasons why Portland should, too.
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Portland council impasse could delay work on numerous initiatives
Council committees remain vacant after councilors vote down Mayor Ethan Strimling’s proposal to appoint himself chairman of the budget committee, rekindling tension over the mayor’s role.
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Vigil in Portland to honor 37 homeless people who died this year
The event will be held Thursday on the winter solstice, the longest night of the year.