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Portland installs gate to stop trash dumpers at Bayside recycling center

PORTLAND — In an attempt to curb illegal dumping in Bayside, the city has gated a self-serve recycling center on Somerset Street. The "silver bullet" recycling containers have been in their current location for two years, and were previously on Marginal Way. Public Ser...

Kate Bucklin • News •
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 9:10 am
Another 230 Portland students now eligible for busing to high school

PORTLAND — A policy change by the School Committee last week will allow about 230 students at Portland and Deering high schools to be bused to school. Prior to last week's action, high school students were bused by exception only. Now, students living more than two miles from scho...

Randy Billings • News •
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 8:00 am
Century-old Portland fountain, now in disrepair, envisioned as pocket-park 'oasis'

PORTLAND — A fountain built in the early 1900s to provide water for horses in the Old Port is expected to be repaired and protected later this year. The Stanley Thomas Pullen Fountain is on Federal Street between Market and Pearl streets, behind Central Fire Station and across fro...

Kate Bucklin • News •
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Portland Pipe Line switch means new stacks on South Portland waterfront

SOUTH PORTLAND — Portland Pipe Line's vessel unloading pier near Bug Light Park in South Portland is slated to become the company's vessel loading area when it reverses the flow of crude oil from Montreal in the next two years. The operational shift is not expected to change th...

Randy Billings • News •
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Portland schools confront unexpectedly large elementary class sizes

PORTLAND — Increasing enrollments have prompted the School Committee to explore developing a formal policy on class sizes. Last week, the committee approved an additional elementary school teacher and hired three education technicians as short-term relief for what school official...

Randy Billings • News •
Monday, August 31, 2009 at 3:50 pm
'Don't stay home without it': Unlikely trio develops fall-prevention aid

SOUTH PORTLAND — Because of a neuromuscular disorder, Alice James has had some spectacular falls. Her body goes rigid and spastic, propelling her through the air and onto her head, jamming her skull into her spinal column. Once she was knocked unconscious for 25 minutes and broke her ...

Lisa Holbrook • News •
Monday, August 31, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Sea Bags of Maine expands to Freeport; hand-crafted totes made from recycled sails

FREEPORT — Ten years ago, Hannah Kubiak and Beth Shissler opened their store in Portland not knowing if their tote bags made from recycled sails would resound with the public.

Ramona du Houx • News •
Monday, August 31, 2009 at 11:40 am
Running for the fallen

Neil Amidon of York reaches out on Route 77 in Cape Elizabeth to touch a poster honoring Army National Guard Capt. Patrick D. Damon of Falmouth, who died on June 15, 2006, at age 41 while stationed in Bagram, Afghanistan. Amidon, a dentist from York, was taking part in Sunday's 59-mile "Run for the ...

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Monday, August 31, 2009 at 10:00 am
A formal farewell at Brunswick Naval Air Station

BRUNSWICK — The Navy bid farewell last week to decades in the sky above Maine.

Dan Hartill • News •
Monday, August 31, 2009 at 9:30 am
Crime busters

A length of crime scene tape provided the ribbon for area police chiefs and law enforcement officials who opened the new Metropolitan Regional Crime Lab on Wednesday at the Portland Police Department. The $1.5 million forensics lab will be used by officers from Cape Elizabeth, Falmouth, Portland, Sc...

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Friday, August 28, 2009 at 2:10 am