Preble Street’s new facility and other food security organizations are bracing for SNAP cuts in November that will affect 170,000 Mainers.
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Preble Street is putting its Portland teen shelter and day center under one roof
Combining the Preble Street Teen Center and the Joe Kreisler Teen Shelter has been years in the making. The new facility is expected to open next summer.
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New downtown Portland ambassador program aims to address growing safety, cleanliness concerns
In the wake of increased complaints from business owners, a nonprofit organization is dispatching a team to help clean up needles, graffiti and waste, and to respond to calls about loitering and drug use.
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Preble Street, Maine Needs team up to streamline donations for homeless people
The Portland nonprofits say the partnership will better facilitate the distribution of items to people who are homeless or newly housed.
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New pizzeria ZA to open in former Slab space on Preble Street
The owners are hospitality industry veterans and Maine natives.
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Mortality rate rising among formerly homeless in Portland’s housing first programs
Chronic homelessness often comes with long-term health issues so when people finally get into one of 3 site-based housing first programs in the city, they sometimes don’t have much time left.
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Portland mourns roughly 50 homeless people who died in 2024
More than 100 people carried electric candles, glowing with orange and white flames, in a vigil for those who died this year in Greater Portland.
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Preble Street to assume operations of Hope House Emergency Shelter in Bangor
The Portland-based nonprofit will take over running the low-barrier shelter in February 2025 as Penobscot Community Health Center can no longer afford it. It is the only privately operated low-barrier shelter in Maine north of Waterville.
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Maine organization aiming to end homelessness hires first executive director
Dean Klein, a homeless prevention advocate most recently from Virginia, has been tapped to lead the Maine Continuum of Care.
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In ‘Discipline,’ 3 intertwining stories explore the dual meanings of the word in the title
An art appraiser, a troubled teen boy and the daughter of a famous artist get alternating eras and chapters in writer Debra Spark’s new novel.