News from the West End and immediately surrounding neighborhoods.
LA VIDA LOCAL: IRREGULAR NOTES ON WEST END LIFE By Rosanne Graef For 41 years, Maine has been blessed by the billboard law that bans off-premises billboards. Its passage resulted in the remo... Read more
Whitley Marshall, an American Red Cross blood drive supervisor and co-director of the Barefoot Truth Dance Company, will represent Orr’s Island in the Mrs. Maine-America pageant. Together wi... Read more
By Cameron Autry In June Rosemont Market & Bakery teamed up with Reiche Elementary School to present a new community mural at the bakery’s West End location. Students of the Reiche Schoo... Read more
City Continues to Seek Cold Storage on Waterfront By Tony Zeli, Publisher & Editor On the morning of June 25th, Americold released a statement announcing their withdrawal from the cold s... Read more
Peace Island is an open-world, story-driven adventure game set on a remote Maine island By Tony Zeli Local animator Eric Blumrich is developing a uniquely Maine video game. In Peace Island,... Read more
By Cameron Autry In June the City of Portland Public Works held a public meeting on a proposed separated bike lane for Park Avenue. It would be the first of its kind in Portland. Project Eng... Read more
By Cameron Autry Greater Portland METRO GM Greg Jordan discussed upcoming changes to public transit at a West End Neighborhood Association meeting on June 13th. In response to an increase in... Read more
By Tony Zeli, Editor The governor chose census tracts from Madawaska to Saco to be opportunity zones, qualifying the geographic areas for tax incentivized investments. Most tracts are in poo... Read more
By Tony Zeli, Editor In May, Mercy Hospital held a community conversation concerning the move of their State Street operations to their Fore River campus. The meeting was held at St. Luke’s... Read more
Stop Moving Your Cars No Enforcement of Street Maintenance Parking Rules June – September No more moving your car every other week. At least, not during the summer. Last fall, the Coun... Read more
