The Locker Project Is Making It Normal to Take Food Home from School by Tony Zeli “Mother, they have grapes and stuff,” the young boy exclaims as he grabs a strawberry from the box of produc... Read more
4-H Swiners Design Community Project to Feed the Hungry Cumberland County 4-H Swiners Adam Dale, Caleb McGrath-Holmquist and Katie McGrath-Holmquist are raising funds to donate to the Gray a... Read more
Portland Fine Craft Show 2016 Draws Art Lovers to West End The Maine Crafts Association held the Portland Fine Craft Show 2016 on Saturday, August 27th, on Congress Street between High and S... Read more
Five Enhanced TSBs Pop Up Around the City The City of Portland Police Department and the Portland Public Art Committee announced an open call for artists back in June to submit their propose... Read more
POLICE BEAT West End Prostitution Sting Operation In August a West End prostitution sting operation led to the arrest of four men for engaging a prostitute, a class E crime. City police cond... Read more
UPDATE: WENA Picnic Annual Potluck WENA Picnic has been rescheduled due to rain. Here is a note from WENA President: Hi all, Due to the (much needed) rain and resulting wet ground, the WENA... Read more
THE DUMPSTER
Where We Throw All the Stuff We Don’t Know What To Do With…
Presumpscot River’s Wessie is confirmed to be an anaconda… Construction at 17 Carleton St will begin in October… Steven King says Paul LePage is a racist… Anthem of the Seas is largest cruise ship of season with 6,000 onboard…Maine Historical Society leads walking tour with Pokestops… Maine artist & photographer Ann Tracy invited to show in Berlin… Angus King says climate change is scary… Artist Sarah Sze selected to develop public art at Congress Square… Mayor Ethan Strimling and Councilor Nick Mavodones attend benefit concert to send humanitarian aid to Greek sister-city Mytilene, arrival site of more than 600,000 refugees… Rosanne Graef tells the Nate Libby Masonry team to ditch the “There’s Nothing We Can’t Lay” tshirts at Reiche construction… Spencer Thibodeau hears about crosswalks and median strips at Constituent Coffee at Tandem… Urban Farm Fermentory celebrates National Mead Day… Jamaican Independence Day celebrated in Deering Oaks… Kerrin Parkinson paints a downtown street utility box… Ed King plying his trade at the August First Friday Art Walk… WMPG celebrates the first birthday of Radio Astronomy show… Congresswoman Pingree tours urchin processing plant in Portland… Technologist-in-Residence Cristos Lianides-Chin helps WEN get data savvy at Peloton Labs… Henry Isaacs opens August show at Gleason Fine Art in Boothbay Harbor…
‘Great for the Neighborhood’ Second Annual Portland Fine Craft Show Brings Visitors to West End by Tony Zeli The WCSH Sidewalk Art Festival has been running for over 50 years. They draw up t... Read more
Black Lives Matter Protest Demands Transparency and Accountability On July 14th an action organized by Portland Racial Justice Congress led to the arrest of 17 protesters for Obstructing a P... Read more
Debunking Colony Collapse Disorder
READER RESPONDS TO PESTICIDE COVERAGE Debunking Colony Collapse Disorder A reader responds to Bridget Chase’s coverage of the Portland pesticide and fertilizer task force. He maintains... Read more