News from the West End and immediately surrounding neighborhoods.
WENA Board Announces New Leadership by Liz Parsons, WENA President Change and continuity characterize the West End Neighborhood Association’s leadership and vision for 2017. We lost some WEN... Read more
POLICE BEAT Hate Crime Investigated at Casco Bay High Four black Casco Bay High School students reported being accosted by a teenager making racist comments while they waited for a bus. The... Read more
Councilor Thibodeau Looks to Remove Reiche Brackett Street Ramp The Brackett Street ramp leading to the second-floor community room at Reiche is set to be torn down. District 2 City Councilo... Read more
POLICE BEAT Portland Police Seek Information on Unsolved Murder It has been seven years since the unsolved shooting of Darien Richardson and Cory Girard. Portland Police are seeking informat... Read more
POLICE BEAT Woman Assaulted While Walking in West End A man assaulted a 22-year-old Portland woman while she was walking on Brackett Street near Pine Street on Thursday night, January 12th,... Read more
Over 500 Portlanders Join Facebook Event for Muslim Owned Business “Buy-In” A new political group called Progressive Portland is organizing a Muslim owned business buy-in to stand agai... Read more
WEN Reader Survey Results and What’s New for the West End News in 2017 by Tony Zeli, Editor In the summer of 2016 we conducted our first WEN reader survey. We captured demographics, in... Read more
West End People Lucie Trudeau’s Labors of Love in the West End by Marilyn Miller Thirty years ago, West End resident Lucille (Lucie) Trudeau wanted to earn a living and spend more time... Read more
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life Reiche Community Center is more than just an elementary school by Rosanne Graef, Past President – WENA First, A Note on Treacherous Side... Read more
Results of the Aging in Place Survey reveals some of the needs of aging West End neighbors. by Pamela Shaw and Elaine Benedetti, WECAN-AIP Last fall the West End Community Action Network... Read more