La Vida LocalIrregular Notes on West End Life Big Yellow Taxi By Rosanne Graef Change can be very, very sad and very, very difficult. Especially when it’s needlessly and heedlessly dropped upo... Read more
La Vida LocalIrregular Notes on West End Life By Rosanne Graef The Importance of Service Everyone’s heard of service and ordinarily thinks of it as doing something for someone or helping som... Read more
City News Briefs Portland Joins National Lafayette Trail On Wednesday, April 22nd the City of Portland joined the national Lafayette Trail marker system stretching across twenty-five states.... Read more
By Nancy English Harold T. Andrews Post 17 of the American Legion has done itself proud over one hundred years. Members have cared for its handsome brick John Calvin Stevens 1898 building wi... Read more
By Nancy English The good reasons to make streets safer for pedestrians and bicyclists run the gamut. Myles Smith, with Mainers for Smarter Transportation, says crime would decline with more... Read more
City News Briefs By Tony Zeli The West End Neighborhood Association (WENA) board members voted at their meeting on Wednesday, February 18th to support creating a public park in Bayside on la... Read more
City News Briefs The Portland City Council recently renamed the Kiwanis Pool on Douglass Street the Rising Eddy Community Pool. The name honors the enduring resilience and renewal of Po... Read more
By Jonathan P. Monro This past year has proved pivotal for the rehabilitation of the Western Cemetery. As a result, we Stewards of the Western Cemetery have the fund... Read more
News Briefs For history lovers:Portland Docents Class Starts in February For the 31st consecutive year, Portland area history lovers will have a unique opportunity to do something fun for th... Read more
A Hundred Ways to Make Art at Peregrine and Pickwick Presses By Nancy English With the Print Crawl beckoning visitors on the 12th through 14th of December, would-be print makers can see doze... Read more
