WENA Urges Neighbors to Weigh In The WENA Board is writing today to alert our West End neighbors and other members of the public who may be unaware of the proposed elimination of the Metro B... Read more
WEST END PEOPLE The Rise and Fall of the Pine Street Theatre In the spring of 1988 the building on the corner of Pine and Brackett Streets, which is now Bonobo Pizza, almost became a theatre... Read more
Screening for Colon Cancer By Christopher Kleeman, MD Colon cancer remains the 3rd most common and 3rd most deadly cancer in the U.S., with over 140,000 people diagnosed each year and over 5... Read more
By Mary Alice Scott As March unfolds in Maine, we have occasional days of warmer weather – a glimpse into the future that spring holds. During the day, the sun melts the remaining snow piles... Read more
Writing for a community paper as the neighborhood reinvents itself By Jenny Anastasoff Twenty years ago, Portland was reinventing itself, not unlike today’s boom. In 2001, when The West End... Read more
By Ed King Previous WEN Publisher & Editor Ed King shares memories from the first years for publication! A lot of interesting, exciting, funny, strange, baffling, weird things (remember... Read more
By Bruce Gomberg, MD FAAOS and Stephen Rodrigue, MD FAAOS Osteoarthritis, which is the most common form of arthritis, impacts over 25 million people in the United States each year. It is a c... Read more
By Michael Stern For many of us, 2020 was one of the most challenging years of our lives. As we move through 2021, many people continue to struggle with mental health challenges due to stres... Read more
MMC Nurses Organize: Democracy in Action
By Dr. Oren Gersten We often think of democracy as something that happens every two to four years when we go to the polls to cast our ballots for elected officials. The truth is that smaller... Read more