News briefs from Portland and Maine that every West Ender needs to know about.
At 10 p.m. on April 2nd, police responded to an armed robbery at Nickelodeon Cinemas in the Old Port. It was reported that the suspect displayed a handgun and demanded cash from a worker. Th... Read more
58 Fore Street Rezoning Update A big contention in the rezoning of 58 Fore Street, whether building heights should be measured from flood plain or average grade, has just been circumvented a... Read more
UPDATE: At approximately 3:45 p.m., Jamie Vandegraff was located and arrested in the Maine Mall area in South Portland. Vandegraff was apprehended by members of the US Marshals Task Force an... Read more
Developer CPB2 wants to rezone and build up 10 acres at 58 Fore Street, site of the Portland Company complex. A citizen group, Soul of Portland, is fighting them. Their concerns are numerous... Read more
Local entrepreneur and inventor Alex Jones has had bees on his mind for some time. “I was really hoping to build something that would identify the real sources of things like colony collapse... Read more
Finally… Spring has come. Time for spring showers to bring May flowers! I’m Jeremy Bloom, co-chairman of Urban Agriculture on the Mayor’s Initiative for Healthy Sustainable Food Syst... Read more
There is 26 square miles of roads, driveways, parking lots, roofs and other impervious surfaces in Portland. To a bumblebee or other native pollinator that is barren and useless land. But th... Read more
The Wild Seed Project is a nonprofit in Maine working to reintroduce native plants into the landscape. Native plants are key to supporting pollinators, as the native pollinators co-evolve wi... Read more
The Portland Pollinator Partnership is hosted by the Bayside Neighborhood Association (BNA), and its partners include the City, Cultivating Community, Portland Trails, the West End Neighborh... Read more
by Betsy Garrold, The Populist Farmer We have all heard about the plight of our pollinator species especially the honeybee. As we work in our urban settings to provide pathways for these mig... Read more
