News in Portland

Regional planning study includes Portland's India Street neighborhood

PORTLAND — The city's India Street neighborhood is one of 10 areas in southern Maine selected for a pilot study in a regional planning project. The Sustain Southern Maine project will look at ways to attract residential and commercial growth to the neighbo...

William Hall • News •

Monday, January 7, 2013 at 1:50 pm

Community Calendar: Jan. 9-20

Greater Portland Bulletin Board Friday 1/11

Community •

Monday, January 7, 2013 at 12:00 pm

Arts Calendar: Jan. 9-20

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Musica de Filia, auditions for several all-female choirs, Jan. 2-22, 550 Forest Ave., Portland, 807-2158. Tuesday 1/15

Lifestyle •

Monday, January 7, 2013 at 11:20 am

Policy Wonk: Corporate welfare in Maine: Alive, well -- and growing

Fourteen years ago, investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele did a lengthy, four-week series for Time magazine that estimated the federal government “shells out $125 billion a year in corporate welfare.” That number is much larger today. Recently, Lo...

Orlando Delogu • Opinion •

Monday, January 7, 2013 at 10:00 am

The Universal Notebook: Peeved at my own incompetence

Nothing puts me in a foul mood faster than something I can’t fix. That means I’m in a fuming funk a lot of the time, not fit to live with until whatever is broken is either repaired or replaced. At the moment it’s the #*(^%$! roof. The roof over my sunroom office has been...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •

Monday, January 7, 2013 at 9:50 am

The View From Away: There's snow end in sight

OK, show of hands: who has shoveled enough snow? Come on, get 'em up. I refuse to believe that I am the only one. And please, no homespun Downeast folk wisdom. “You call this snow? We can still see the windows on our house! Longfellow wrote 'The Song Of Hiawatha' in deeper sno...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •

Monday, January 7, 2013 at 8:50 am

Worth the wait...McAuley solves Deering, extends win streak to 34

PORTLAND—For 18 hours, McAuley junior Allie Clement and her teammates could do nothing but wait. After Friday night's highly anticipated girls' basketball Stevens Avenue showdown against rival Deering was suspended fi...

Michael Hoffer • Sports •

Saturday, January 5, 2013 at 8:00 pm

Anti-abortion, abortion rights demonstrators duel in Portland

PORTLAND — A business owner rallied an abortion rights demonstration on Friday to counter the regular appearance on his street of anti-abortion protesters he called “obnoxious.” The dueling demonstrations set the stage for chanting, arguing and sometimes yelling, as dozen...

Noah Hurowitz, Bangor Daily News • News •

Friday, January 4, 2013 at 4:10 pm

Unsung Hero: Janet Kandoian, the indomitable 'Miss K'

SOUTH PORTLAND — The year: 1971. The setting: a fourth-grade class at the Willard School. The question from one of the students to the young, new teacher: “Just how old are you, anyway?” Janet Kandoian, known as “Miss K” to many students, well re...

David Treadwell • News •

Friday, January 4, 2013 at 3:20 pm

Portland taps Virginia official for powerful, new 2nd-in-command post

PORTLAND — City Manager Mark Rees has chosen a veteran public official from Richmond, Va., to step into a new, powerful position in Maine’s largest city. As Portland’s first deputy city manager – an influential job that replaces what had previously been two ass...

Seth Koenig, Bangor Daily News • News •

Friday, January 4, 2013 at 2:40 pm