| | Local Toyota dealership goes to 24-hour recall service
A local Toyota dealership goes to 24-hour service for meeting recall work.
Published on 02 / 05 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Aubuchon Hardware christens Stevens Avenue store
On Friday, about a dozen Aubuchon Hardware employees helped officially open Aubuchon Hardware's new store on Stevens Avenue — in lieu of a ribbon cutting, Chairman and CEO William E. Aubuchon held metal clippers and symbolically cut a chain.
Published on 02 / 05 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Framework emerges for sex offender residency rules
Some convicted sex offenders would be banned form living within 750 feet of schools and city parks under a proposal before a city subcommittee next week.
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| | Portland Post Office to hold special stamp cancellation to mark Chinese New Year
The Portland Post Office is offering a special stamp cancellation on Feb. 6 to mark the Chinese New Year. The event will be held at Catherine McAuley High School, located at 631 Stevens Ave. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the U.S. Postal Service announced.
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| | SoPo police defend automated license plate readers
A contingent of South Portland police officers will be in Augusta today testifying against a bill that would prohibit Maine law enforcement agencies from using automated license plate readers.
Published on 02 / 04 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Veterans Memorial Bridge design unveiled
Transportation officials Thursday unveiled the design and construction schedule for a new Veterans Memorial Bridge in Portland Thursday.
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| | Main branch library to close for five weeks
Portland Public Library's Monument Square branch will close in late February for five weeks as construction crews wind-down the year-long, $7.3 million renovation project.
Published on 02 / 04 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Crossroads for Women adds staff members
Crossroads for Women, which offers Maine’s most comprehensive treatment for substance abuse and mental health specialized for women, recently welcomed six new staff members and elected one new board member. New Hires
Published on 02 / 04 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Aubuchon Hardware to help Crossroads for Women
Aubuchon Hardware at 832 Stevens Ave. is hosting a Community Appreciation Day on Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Published on 02 / 04 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Aylward honored for work with Portland Trails
Portland Trails, a nonprofit urban land trust and trail building organization, announced that Steve Aylward is this year’s winner of the Kay Wagenknecht-Harte Award for Volunteer Service.
Published on 02 / 04 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | New England Fishery Council reverses decision on scallop rules
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Following almost six hours of presentations and discussions, the New England Fishery Management Council in an unprecedented action reversed a November 2009 decision about rules for harvesting sea scallops in 2010, the agency announced.
Published on 02 / 03 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Vandalism at Jewish cemetery stirs memories of synagogue desecration
Almost a year to the day that someone painted a black swastika on the glass case of a synagogue's announcement board along Noyes Street, swastikas were found Tuesday, painted on four tombstones and on a marker at the Jewish Mt. Carmel Cemetery near Warren Avenue.
Published on 02 / 03 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Jail guard arrested in prescription drug probe
Authorities have charged a corrections officer at Cumberland County Jail with two counts of trafficking prison contraband after he was caught Wednesday allegedly trying to bring prescription drugs into the facility.
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| | Portland Harbor Hotel’s ice bar raised more than $17,000 for local groups
Portland Harbor Hotel’s popular Ice Bar raised over $17,000 in its three days, the hotel reported Tuesday. These funds will be shared with three local organizations: Center for Grieving Children, Junior Achievement and Share our Strength Southern Maine. An additional $2,300 was raised for the American Red Cross for support for relief work in Haiti, the hotel reported.
Published on 02 / 02 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Metro riders mixed on possible fare increase
As Metro's board of directors ponder a 20 percent fare increase, bus riders are expressing mixed opinions on the proposal but say they are unlikely to change riding habits even if the increases are approved.
Published on 02 / 02 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | What's In a Name?
Celebrating 21 years in business, the Pepperclub offers a four-course menu for $21. There's a relaxed atmosphere at this Old Port eatery.
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| | New details emerge in weekend attack
A Sudanese man hospitalized for four days with a head injury suffered early Saturday morning in the Old Port has told police he doesn't remember how he was injured and isn't claiming he was assaulted.
Published on 02 / 03 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Restaurant Week releases initial list of eateries
On Tuesday, organizers of Maine Restaurant Week announced a preliminary list of confirmed restaurants participating in the second installment of this dining promotion.
Published on 02 / 02 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Sudanese community 'stunned' by weekend attack
Sudanese community leaders are challenging Portland Police to "step up" in investigating a weekend beating that left the brother of a high-profile Darfur activist in a coma for three days, but police say they have no record of the attack.
Published on 02 / 01 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | United Way of Greater Portland names board members
United Way of Greater Portland announced the election to its board of directors of Shawn Gorman, vice president of card services and direct to business, L.L. Bean, and Jacquelyn Hedlund, M.D., medical director, Maine Medical Center Cancer Institute.
Published on 02 / 01 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Art in a 'self-contained world'
Delving into the past is what inspired Portland artist Frank Turek to specialize in boxed assemblages, more commonly known as shadow boxes.
Published on 02 / 03 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Father, son, charged with attacking stepson at party
Portland Police have charged a father and son with aggravated assault after allegedly attacking a third family member and two other people during a weekend party on Pleasant Street.
Published on 02 / 01 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | City attorney says housing ordinance should be revised
The city attorney's office is recommending revisions to a "controversial" housing policy even though it says the rule would probably withstand a legal challenge.
Published on 02 / 01 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Loring trail promises to link up Back Cove, Bayside
The goal of two groups is to build a link from Loring Circle at the western end of the Eastern Promenade to the Eastern Promenade Trail below.
Published on 02 / 01 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Portland fifth-graders raise money for Haiti
In an effort to raise money for the people of Haiti, Breakwater School’s fifth-grade students have begun a website called Handmade for Haiti at www.handmadeforhaiti.org.
Published on 02 / 01 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | News remains protected speech because it's different
A week-long look at the future of newspapers winds up.
Published on 02 / 05 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Deep in the woods, it can suddenly turn very dark
The story continues through the dark, dark woods.
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| | Mourning the passage of the little ketchup packet
Mourning the re-design of the lowly ketchup packet.
Published on 02 / 04 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | More free newspapers, plus more ways to pay,
The Daily Sun editor continues his week-long defense of all things newspaper.
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| | Death spirals and other perils of journalism
The Daily Sun editor continues his admittedly lengthy discourse on the journalism crisis.
Published on 02 / 03 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Portland in the finals for attracting JFK carrier
Comments on efforts to bring the retired JFK aircraft carrier to Portland.
Published on 02 / 03 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | It's time to pay some environmental costs for energy
Writer feels it's time to stop talking clean energy to death.
Published on 02 / 02 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Paper celebrates a year of defying national narrative
The Daily Sun turns one year old today, bucks national narrative.
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| | Doubters pay up: Daily Sun nears one-year anniversary
The Portland Daily Sun nears a year of publication, looks at newspapers in general.
Published on 02 / 01 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
| | Groundhog wants out? Let's try a Maine Coon Cat
The writer suggests a stand-in for a famous groundhog.
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| | An apple a day is good, wild blueberries are better
New research identifies wild blueberries as a super food.
Published on 02 / 01 / 2010 Click here to read more ... |
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