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
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month by Suzanne A. Hoekstra MD FACS Growing up, I always enjoyed science and biology. But it wasn’t until medical school that I realized what I r... Read more
by Tony Taylor As a teenage student of architectural history in late 60’s Connecticut, I remember my excitement at finding and photographing a row of mill houses in Willimantic that had been... Read more
WHERE WE THROW ALL THE STUFF WE DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH…
Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum begins restoration of the last historic narrow gauge railway snowplow… City searches for the perfect 45 to 60-foot tall evergreen, spruce or fir for Monument Square and you can submit your tree online…City Councilor Spencer Thibodeau visits Switzerland and see the Matterhorn… West End photographer Barbara Peacock wins $10,000 Getty Images Editorial Grant for her “American Bedroom” series… TD Bank unplugs Penny Arcade coin-counting machines after a class action suit alleges that the machines were short-changing customers… Robo-ticketing is on its way to downtown streets as enforcement staff get new wireless devices to digitally chalk tires and issue citations directly to the cloud… Plane flies over downtown with a banner supposedly urging Senator Collins to oppose health care repeal… Mayor Strimling helps send off Climate Riders travelling by bicycle from City Hall all the way to the Common Ground Fair in Unity… Former West End school board rep Steven Spring is glad to see the City Council supporting Indigenous People’s Day… Bill Linnell creates a boat-shaped food cart for Cap’N Bill’s Lobster on Commercial Street… The Language Exchange in the Old Port begins its 25th year… Voting for Indie Biz Awards is closed find out in October who the big winners are… Mainely Wraps opens a Portland location across from One City Center… Pat O’Donnell finishes her first scarf for Chase the Chill Knitting and now is tackling a pair of mittens…. Bangor Daily News photojournalist Troy Bennett pens song lyrics, “Back Cove, Not Back Bay”… Hundreds rally in Longfellow Square on Labor Day to support paid sick leave ordinance…
Mary Alice Scott New Portland Buy Local Director Mary Alice Scott is a Portland-based organizer who worked most recently as the Community Engagement Manager at the Portland Food Co-op. At th... Read more
POLICE BEAT Suspicious Death on Temple Street Ruled a Homicide UPDATE: Police Release Sketch to Identify Person of Interest Portland Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a... Read more
