LA VIDA LOCAL: IRREGULAR NOTES ON WEST END LIFE By Rosanne Graef I have always enjoyed winter and the one year I spent in a place without the whole shebang of cold, snow, long nights, and sh... Read more
LA VIDA LOCAL – IRREGULAR NOTES ON WEST END LIFE Reiche Community: A.M. Exercise, Monday Evenings Out & More By Rosanne Graef I hope you’ve read some of the WEN articles about Aging in P... Read more
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
LA VIDA LOCAL – IRREGULAR NOTES ON WEST END LIFE Make Your Own Music by Rosanne Graef “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ― Confucius This summer, the W... Read more
LA VIDA LOCAL – IRREGULAR NOTES ON WEST END LIFE Looking Ahead & Going Local by Rosanne Graef Hard to believe it’s the middle of fall and there’s not even been a frost on the pumpkins of... Read more
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life Make Your Mark in the Neighborhood! The Traffic Signal Box Project by Rosanne Graef We’re surrounded by utilitarian objects. They may do their... Read more
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life Rebuild All 4 Schools? Make An Informed Choice by Rosanne Graef In November, Portland voters will be asked to vote on two bond proposals to de... Read more
La Vida Local: Irregular Notes on West End Life Are Portlanders Being Had? by Rosanne Graef When it comes to commercial and residential development – especially on the peninsula... Read more
West End People Dr. Philip Thompson – 100 Years in the West End by Tony Zeli, with Rosanne Graef Dr. Philip Thompson has spent a lifetime and then some in the West End. He celebrated h... Read more



Of Referenda, Moratoria & Fable
LA VIDA LOCAL: IRREGULAR NOTES ON WEST END LIFE By Rosanne Graef Ready for another round of the battle for the Peninsula, brought to you by the City of Portland? After the fights over Midtow... Read more