News from the West End and immediately surrounding neighborhoods.
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life Americold Neighborhood Meeting Announced by Rosanne Graef, Past President – WENA UPDATE: Due to weather, the neighborhood meeting on Ame... Read more
POLICE BEAT Armed Robbery of Pizza Delivery Driver A Papa John’s Pizza delivery driver was robbed Sunday morning, February 5th, at 2:30 a.m. The driver was getting out of his car to deliver... Read more
POLICE BEAT Hate Crime Arrest A tip leads to a hate crime arrest of a Portland man. Portland Police made an arrest on February 3rd for the bias motivated attack against two students from Cas... Read more
WENA Board Announces New Leadership by Liz Parsons, WENA President Change and continuity characterize the West End Neighborhood Association’s leadership and vision for 2017. We lost some WEN... Read more
POLICE BEAT Hate Crime Investigated at Casco Bay High Four black Casco Bay High School students reported being accosted by a teenager making racist comments while they waited for a bus. The... Read more
Councilor Thibodeau Looks to Remove Reiche Brackett Street Ramp The Brackett Street ramp leading to the second-floor community room at Reiche is set to be torn down. District 2 City Councilo... Read more
POLICE BEAT Portland Police Seek Information on Unsolved Murder It has been seven years since the unsolved shooting of Darien Richardson and Cory Girard. Portland Police are seeking informat... Read more
POLICE BEAT Woman Assaulted While Walking in West End A man assaulted a 22-year-old Portland woman while she was walking on Brackett Street near Pine Street on Thursday night, January 12th,... Read more
Over 500 Portlanders Join Facebook Event for Muslim Owned Business “Buy-In” A new political group called Progressive Portland is organizing a Muslim owned business buy-in to stand agai... Read more
WEN Reader Survey Results and What’s New for the West End News in 2017 by Tony Zeli, Editor In the summer of 2016 we conducted our first WEN reader survey. We captured demographics, in... Read more
