La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life Americold Neighborhood Meeting Announced by Rosanne Graef, Past President – WENA UPDATE: Due to weather, the neighborhood meeting on Ame... Read more
POLICE BEAT Hate Crime Arrest A tip leads to a hate crime arrest of a Portland man. Portland Police made an arrest on February 3rd for the bias motivated attack against two students from Cas... Read more
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
The War of Words What happens when the meme writers strike? by Sam Pelletier Negotiations Fail Salary negotiations drew to an abrupt end today when union leaders stormed out of a meeting wit... Read more
Yes We Can! A Strong Pesticide Ordinance for Portland by Bridget Chase In January, Portland’s Pesticide and Fertilizer task force resumed work on a draft pesticide reduction ordinance. The t... Read more
MY STORY: English language learners from Portland Adult Education share their story in their own words. My Mother is My Hero – This is Madeleine’s Story My name is Madeleine. My home c... Read more
The Spiritual Side Wisdom and Her Ways of Pleasantness by Rick Ness In previous articles, I have written about wholeness in life and how our connection to God is part of that. One way of con... 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
WHERE WE THROW ALL THE STUFF WE DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH…
First day of legal recreational marijuana in Maine dubbed Marijuana Monday… Thousands join two anti-Trump rallies in Portland in one day… Delivered packages in the West End continue to go missing… Night runners asked to use common sense… METRO marks 50th anniversary with record-setting 1.81 million riders… New Asian dessert stand at Public Market House sparks cultural appropriation debate… Pingree agrees with Trump on withdrawal from the Trans Pacific Partnership… Jazz vocalist Viva departs for New Orleans to premiere her new album… Mike Roylos’ Sidewalk Buttler is now recycling cigarette butts in 11 states… City selects Christopher Huff from Pennsylvania as new Tax Assessor… Tom MacMillan and Seth Baker leave the Green Party to join the Socialist Party USA… This is over former School Board member Ben Meiklejohn taking the Madawaska marching band to the inauguration… Meanwhile Chellie Pingree uses the NAACP MLK Dinner to announce that she won’t attend the inauguration… Health care rally draws hundreds and blocks traffic in front of City Hall… Bill proposed in Augusta to make it easier to own pet hedgehogs… Rusty patched bumble bee placed on endangered species list… Council considers renaming Franklin Street as Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard… Progressive Portland promotes a Muslim-owned business buy-in… Bramhall Pub issues a password to unlock all-night happy hour… Mayor Strimling calls for a comprehensive loophole-free synthetic pesticide ordinance… City Treasury Office will open a half-hour earlier at 8:30 a.m… OLS marks their 5th anniversary as a non-profit…
Americold Not Acting Neighborly – Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor Americold Not Acting Neighborly Americold’s request to alter zoning restrictions on the western waterfront should plunge ripples of concern through all Portland property... Read more