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Aquaponics startup outgrows Portland, heads to North Yarmouth

NORTH YARMOUTH — Fish waste is used by plants, which is converted by bacteria into nutrients for plants, which in turn filter clean and oxygenated water to be recirculated back to the fish. It's the circle of life. That's the gist of aquaponics, a symbiotic merging of aquacult...

Alex Lear • News •
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 11:30 am

Revised Portland school budget cuts additional jobs

PORTLAND — The School Board Finance Committee last week cut another $1.5 million from the proposed fiscal year 2014 budget. The reduction would eliminate more positions, add staff furlough days, hike employee health-insurance costs and further reduce spending for equipment and s...

Amber Cronin • News •
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 10:40 am

Portland charter school reaches accord with ousted director; details sealed

AUGUSTA — A controversy-plagued Portland charter school that received preliminary approval Monday to open in the fall has reached an accord with its former executive director following his contentious ouster. The board of directors of Baxter Academy for Technology and Science and Joh...

Christopher Cousins, Bangor Daily News • News •
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 10:40 am

Portland travel agency still flying high after 20 years

PORTLAND — Travel agencies may seem like an endangered species, but don't tell that to Pamela Hurley Moser. Twenty years ago, there were more than 100 full-service, local agencies in Maine, said Hurley Moser, founder of Hurley Travel Experts. Records show most were in the Portland ar...

William Hall • News •
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 9:30 am

Portland Meetings April 10-16

Wed.  4/10  5:30 p.m.  Housing & Community Development  TH Wed.  4/10  6 p.m.  Police Citizen Review Sub-Committee  PS Thur.  4/11  CANCELLED — Board of Assessment Review Thur.  4/11  5 p.m.  Boar...

Community •
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 9:20 am

Despite objections, Portland council OKs social service allocations

PORTLAND — The City Council Monday approved allocating nearly $4 million in anticipated federal funds to more than a dozen community development, job creation and social services programs – but not before councilors expressed concerns about the allocation process. In a 6-1 vote...

William Hall • News •
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 8:50 am

Portland Police Beat: April 10

Arrests 3/30 at 7 p.m. Suzanne G. Ryder, 48, of Alfred, was arrested on Fore Street by Officer Dan Aguilera on a charge of operating under the influence. 3/30 at 9 p.m. Kayla McInnis-Warren, 30, of Biddeford, was arrested on Wilmot Street by Offic...

Police Beat •
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

New options for drivers, new website for Casco Bay Lines

PORTLAND — Casco Bay Lines is preparing to give passengers with cars and light trucks some new ticketing options this summer. The ferry service has also launched a what is billed as a "new and improved" website that will eventually offer online ticketing for customers. Startin...

News •
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Portland School Notebook

Cheverus jazz choirs bring home awards from state jazz competition Two jazz vocal groups from Cheverus High School won awards last weekend at the Maine High School State Vocal Jazz Festival in Ellsworth. Under the direction of Music Director Christopher Humphrey, the Cheve...

Community •
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Wilma Bozak Baldwin, 86: An artistic soul who loved life

PORTLAND — Wilma Bozak Baldwin, 86, of Portland, died March 29. She was born Sept. 19, 1926, in Raven Run, Pa., the daughter of Michael and Anna Bozak. She grew up in Shenandoah, Pa. and graduated from the Philadelphia School of Art. She worked in and loved fashion and design. H...

Obituaries •
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
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