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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
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…
