A jumble of unused rocks becomes Rocky Hill playground feature at Deering Oaks Park… Portland Conservatory of Music launches a new adult concert band open to adults of all ages and experience… Peaks to Portland swim gets a record number of over 500 swimmers… Principal of Falmouth High School Gregg Palmer nominated as new principal of Deering High… Portland Jetport opens a new gallery space with an inaugural exhibit from Bigelow Laboratory featuring huge photographs of the tiniest ocean creatures… Reade Brower of Camden and owner of Press Herald buys Lewiston’s Sun Journal… C-SPAN visits Portland to record the non-fiction literary history of the city to air on BookTV and American History TV the weekend of October 21… Children’s clothing retailer Little on Exchange St. wins first ever Portland Downtown Summer Window Display Contest… Volunteers plant six American Chestnut seedlings at Harbor View Park near Commercial St… Natural Resources Defense Council claims Maine among 15 worst states for smog and pollen… East Enders complain to the City about noise from the Maine State Pier… Justin Alfond says he won’t run for governor in 2018… Casco Baykeeper Ivy Frignoca reports sightings of bright green algal blooms in Back Cove… Parking meter rates go up for the first time in eight years reaching $1.25 per hour… WEN Publisher Tony Zeli elected Secretary of the Board for Portland Buy Local…
Sustainability Committee has Portland’s Draft Pesticide Ordinance on Fast Track by Bridget Chase The Sustainability and Transportation Committee began the process of reviewing the draft pest... Read more
City Council begins live streaming their meetings on Facebook Live… Protect Our Neighborhood Schools’ campaign lit encourages bullet voting to fix all four schools including Reiche… Local activist Wells Lyons starts Resistance Enterprises an apparel company selling tshirts with messages of dissent… Homeless Voices for Justice members sit out in Tommy’s Park for the 10th Annual Longest Day of Homelessness Summer Solstice Vigil… Riverside Golf Course locates the first of several bee hives on the course and plans to plant more than 150 pollinator friendly plants and trees… Catholic Charities Maine commemorates the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees on World Refugee Day, held every year on June 20th… Progressive Portland gets behind Portland Protectors and their push for a South Portland-style pesticide ordinance… York Street restaurant Outliers will not reopen and building is for sale for 1.4 million… Family owned department store Renys among those honored by Memic for workplace safety… Deering High begins search for new principal as Ira Waltz retires at the end of the school year… Reiche second graders don hairnets and tour Mercy Hospital’s kitchen at 144 State St… City Hall lit green in support of Paris Agreement… Farm Truck Juice starts a “Pay What You Can” coffee program… Cruise ship season begins with the Grandeur of the Seas and its 2,000 passengers… Old Port retailer Simply Scandinavian celebrates their 19th anniversary… Poll issued by Progressive Portland shows competing school bond questions have about equal support with 58% of Portland voters ready to vote yes for either…
Catholic Charities Maine Hosts World Refugee Day Celebration Catholic Charities Maine presents Portland’s World Refugee Day Celebration on Saturday, July 8th from 4 to 8 p.m. at Cheverus Hig... Read more
Portland Pesticide Ordinance Public Hearing by Bridget Chase UPDATE (6/19/2017): The location of the 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm Wednesday, June 21st meeting for Portland’s Sustainability... Read more
Harbor View Park Edible Hillside Begins by Pamela Shaw The first planting day at Harbor View Park was successful, satisfying and fun, thanks to our nineteen volunteers, and perfect weat... Read more
The Amos Farm LAYERING by Christian Torp Poor Mary. They married her to Jesus, and Jesus is an asexual circumcised revolutionary. What future is there to be had in that scenario? -Rawi Hage;... Read more
Bayside’s Postwar Blues by Tony Taylor “There’s been a widespread perception around here that Bayside was simply ignored architecturally because it was working class. For a lot of the time i... Read more
POLICE BEAT Portland High School Student Assaulted on Oxford Street An 18-year-old Portland High School student was assaulted just before 10:30 a.m. on May 26th, near Oxford Street and Chest... Read more
WHERE WE THROW ALL THE STUFF WE DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH…
South Portland sports bar the Griffin Club is closing after being evicted for potential real estate development in Knightville neighborhood… Hundreds of Jehovah’s Witnesses converge on Cross Insurance Arena for one of 14 regional conventions… Friends of Casco Bay celebrate 25 years of the Water Quality Monitoring program… and 22 years of service by Citizen Stewards Coordinator Peter Milholland… Chicken parts spilled for a mile along St. John Street cleaned up by offending business and City crews but not before residents get a nose full of fowl odor… Jenny Anastasoff and sweetie Justin find some very interesting litter while volunteering at Harbor View Park… Rosanne Graef celebrates Norwegian Constitution Day at Maine Wildlife Park… Children of Dr. Philip Thompson make a $25,000 donation to the Eastern Trail Alliance “Close the Gap” campaign in his honor… Comic book heroes Spider-Man and Deadpool seen hanging with Slugger the Seadog in Longfellow Square… St. Pius Church on Ocean Avenue begins live streaming Masses seven days a week… Jenn Thompson will relocate with her family to Indiana and Portland Buy Local searches for a new Executive Director… Around 1200 workers got free coffee and goodie bags on Downtown Worker Appreciation Day… Mayor announces first Sunday in May to be Yellow Tulip Hope Day in honor of Mental Health Awareness month… Westgate Shaws runs out of Monopoly game tickets… UMaine Marxists and Socialist Party of Eastern Maine honor workers on May Day at USM… Still a Good Cause thrift store celebrates its first year anniversary with a check to the McAuley Residence for single mothers…
