People of all ages who live, work, and recreate in South Portland are encouraged to share their ideas and vision for South Portland’s future to help create a framework to guide city policy and programs over the next decade. There are several ways that community members can share their input this summer during the engagement […]

Although Loveitt’s Field is a year-round residential neighborhood today, its beginning started in the late 1800s as a small community of summer cottages. Many of the cottages were second homes of wealthy Portland residents who enjoyed living in the summer on the breezy expanse overlooking Casco Bay. With beachfront access, Loveitt’s Field was also home […]

Last week, my colleagues and I voted for the second part of the responsible biennial budget. It makes important investments in Maine’s families, including child care, housing and emergency medical services. Some highlights include doubling salary stipends for child care workers, boosting the Child Care Affordability Program, establishing the transformational Housing First Program and creating […]

Did you know that in health care, we are approaching the treatment and prevention of dementia like the model we use for heart disease? In other words, in addition to thinking about one “cure,” we’ve realized how profoundly impactful making a few healthy choices in combination can be. As an example, in one study in […]

South Portland is charting a course to become a more resilient city. This means we’re striving to ensure that all of our neighborhoods can anticipate, accommodate, and adapt to a changing climate. Reaching this goal will depend, in large part, on our collective ability to reimagine and reinvent our community in a way that promotes […]

The father and son medical doctors, Loring S. Lombard and Reginald T. Lombard, were two of the most well-known doctors in our community in the 1900s. With Loring opening his practice here in 1897 and overlapping with Reginald’s practice continuing until 1981, their practices spanned 85 years. Let’s take a look at these longtime South […]

We mentioned Will Dyer in our June 23 column about the grocery that was once on the corner of Broadway and Evans Street. Let’s take a closer look at this grocer who worked in the trade for over 55 years. William E. Dyer was born in 1871 in Cape Elizabeth (now South Portland). He was […]

After a very successful campaign, the city expects funding for Electrify Everything!, a program that provides rebates on electric consumer goods, to run out by the end of this summer. The city is announcing that the final day to submit an application for rebates on electric vehicles, electric lawn care equipment, and e-bikes is July […]