Fall Curbside Leaf Collection All November The City will collect residential biodegradable leaf bags curbside through the entire month of November. City crews collect leaf bags after emptyin... Read more
Pesticide Ordinance Public Hearing The City Council’s Sustainability and Transportation Committee unanimously approved the current draft of a pesticide ordinance. The full City Council will... Read more
Hospitalists: At the Heart of the Hospital by Dr. Ravi Chandrasekaran The PCP Model I began my career in 2003 as a primary care physician (PCP) in Westbrook, Maine. As a PCP, I saw patients... Read more
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The new Canal Plaza opens with a 17,000-square-foot courtyard and restaurant area… Late October storm takes out a large tree by Mellen Street Market crushing a car and knocking out power for hundreds in Parkside… Economic opportunity nonprofit CEI celebrates its 40th anniversary… Jacqui Deveneau is awarded the 2017 Peace Action Maine Peace Worker Award… Everyone’s wondering who’s behind the new satirical news website New Maine News… Rosemont Market announces new location for Shore Road in Cape Elizabeth… Councilor Pious Ali speaks at a Republican City Committee meeting… City Councilors welcome Leslie Odom Jr. and give him the key to the City for his work in the musical Hamilton, and Wells Lyons must be so jealous… Steven Biel takes a leave of absence from Progressive Portland after sharing an email list with candidate Bree LaCasse… Spencer Thibodeau debates Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Indigenous People’s Day… Spose makes an album in 24 hours… Portland Fire Museum on Spring St hosts an open house… Baxter Boulevard closed to motorists to make way for the 3,500 runners in the Maine Marathon…
by Tony Taylor The decorative use of architectural salvage, distressed finishes, and weathered and rusted surfaces has taken the country by storm. As late as the 60’s, serious collectors ign... Read more
WEST END AGING IN PLACE ENRICHMENT SERIES TOPIC: Electric Vehicles November 13 | Reiche Community Center | 6:00 PM by Holly Lord Please join us for the next topic in our enrichment series a... Read more
THE AMOS FARM APPLES The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. -Ernesto “Che” Guevara It’s apple season in Maine! From early September through late... Read more
500 Window Dressers Insulating Inserts Ordered by Elissa Armstrong This summer Window Dressers volunteers from West End Neighborhood Association (WENA) and Portland Climate Action Team measu... Read more
by Nina Sachs, MLIS When I was 12, I was confident that the only people who had a larger English vocabulary than I were my mom and William F. Buckley. And yes, I was really that obnox... Read more
Editor’s Note: WEN Volunteer Contributor Bridget Chase, 58, of Pine Street, Portland, passed away on August 7th, of late complications due to treatment of Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a teen.... Read more
