News from the West End and immediately surrounding neighborhoods.
Spare the Woodman’s Axe Heritage Tree Ordinance to Protect Urban Trees By Tony Zeli A new ordinance in the City of Portland makes it harder for private property owners to chop down lar... Read more
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life What’s Wrong with Camping? By Rosanne Graef Homelessness is not new in Maine and working toward a resolution has been ongoing for centuries. M... Read more
By Jean Murachanian, Portland Conservatory of Music It’s been a crazy year, to say the least, and we continue to face uncertainty in the near future. At the Portland Conservatory of Music (P... Read more
Maine Craft in a Time of Corona An Interview with a Maine Craft Artist By Rosanne Graef My usual summer-time habit is to get ahead of a year’s worth of holidays, birthdays, and one-off gift-... Read more
By Tony Zeli Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, interest in local foods was burgeoning. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture interest in local food in Maine has seen a steady incr... Read more
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life The Watched Pot By Rosanne Graef Although often attributed to Ben Franklin, the proverb “A watched pot never boils” didn’t appear in Poor Rich... Read more
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life Keep on Keepin’ On – With Some New Twists By Rosanne Graef After another month of holing up, hunkering down, and watching my husband’s c... Read more
By Pamela Shaw Though we humans may be struggling, spring is on the way in Maine. At Harbor View Park, the peach and cherry trees are budding, the pollinator garden is putting up leaves, and... Read more
La Vida Local Irregular Notes on West End Life By Rosanne Graef I’ve been spending a lot of time at home lately (no surprise). I’m lucky to live on a corner on the side of a hill. This affor... Read more
Three successive public forums, to be held via Zoom on Wednesday, May 13, will focus on the design process for renovations for Presumpscot, Reiche and Longfellow elementary schools and on th... Read more
What’s Wrong with Camping?
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life What’s Wrong with Camping? By Rosanne Graef Homelessness is no...