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Portland School Notebook: May 22

PATHS students tops in auto repairs competition A team of automotive technology students from Portland Arts and Technology High School received first place in Maine’s Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills Competition on May 11. Twenty students representing 10 high schools across Main...

Community •
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

People and Business

New Hires, Promotions and Appointments Winxnet, a Portland-based IT outsourcing and consulting firm, added experienced professionals in sales, operations and technology leadership positions. Jerry Lawson has more than 25 years of enterprise information technology management. Sc...

Community •
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Cruise ship visits begin in Portland next week

PORTLAND — The city's cruise ship season begins with the June 1 arrival of the 98-passenger Independence, the first of 58 ships scheduled to call this year, according to City Hall spokeswoman Nicole Clegg. That's one less ship than last year. But while the city welcomed 61,100 cruise...

News •
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Portland Police Beat: May 22

Arrests 5/11 at 11 p.m. Jeffrey J. Ward, 36, of Portland, was arrested on Dana Street by Officer Charles Hodgdon on a charge of trafficking in dangerous knives. 5/12 at midnight. Nathaniel E. Gagnon, 20, of South Portland, was arrested on Congress...

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Arts Calendar: May 22

Greater Portland Auditions/Calls for Art Auditions for Indoor/Outdoor, Sunday 6/2 and Monday 6/3, 6:30-8 p.m., Freeport High School Library, 30 Holbrook St., Freeport, 865-2220, roles for four adults (two women, two men).

Lifestyle •
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

6 Maine companies earn annual Family Business awards

BRUNSWICK — The Institute for Family-Owned Business, in partnership with the law firm Verrill Dana, announced winners of the annual Maine Family Business Awards on May 13 at the Marriott at Sable Oaks in South Portland. The event was hosted by WGME-TV co-anchor Gregg Lagerquist,...

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Monday, May 20, 2013 at 3:20 pm

Portland Police Department seeks online feedback

PORTLAND — The Police Department is surveying residents to get feedback about its job performance. The department is asking the public to complete a 40-question online survey, developed with help from the Univer...

News •
Monday, May 20, 2013 at 1:40 pm

Unsung Hero: Nathan Smith, community advocate

PORTLAND — The city's emergence over the last 25 years as one of the nation’s most vibrant and livable cities is no accident. Visionary leaders saw what needed to be done, and they did it. Nathan Smith, a commercial real estate attorney at Bernstein Shur, has been such a leader...

David Treadwell • News •
Monday, May 20, 2013 at 12:20 pm

Portland jetport prepares for the worst

Emergency responders from Portland, South Portland and Gorham attend to "victims" – each with unique injuries and physical conditions – in the triage area of a disaster drill on Saturday at Portland International Jetport. The exercise also included emergency crews from Cumberland...

News •
Monday, May 20, 2013 at 11:30 am

The Universal Notebook: Pictures of childhood

One of the prize artifacts of childhood in our family is a photograph of my mother, age 4, standing on the wheel of Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis as it sat on the sands of Old Orchard Beach in July of 1927. Two months before, Lindbergh had made history by making the first n...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, May 20, 2013 at 11:00 am
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