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Portland School Notebook: May 1

National Honor Society welcomes local students

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Dust to dust: Portland-area funeral homes go green

PORTLAND — Some local businesses are helping Maine residents be kinder to the earth when they return to it. New England Green Funerals, a group of four funeral homes that include Jones-Rich-Hutchins Funeral Home on Woodford Street and Lindquist Funeral Home in Yarmouth, began offerin...

William Hall • News •

Monday, April 29, 2013 at 4:00 pm

First Friday walk highlights Portland Fireman Statue

PORTLAND — The city's First Friday Art Walks continue May 3, and highlights include a discussion of Portland's Fireman Statue and an exhibit of political cartoons at the Meg Perry Center. The walks are popular open-houses featuring city art galleries, studios and museums, sponsored b...

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Monday, April 29, 2013 at 3:50 pm

Portland offers cancer forums for Latino community

PORTLAND — A pair of free forums will give the public a chance learn about preventing and detecting the three forms of cancer most commonly diagnosed in the Latino population. The city's Minority Health Program,...

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Monday, April 29, 2013 at 1:50 pm

Out & About: Maia Sharp, Big Sandy top the bill

May arrives this week with a plethora of sunshine and flowers, plus an equal bounty of arts and entertainment. A superb singer-songwriter and a leading Americana-rockabilly band are two of the top offerings at Portland’s One Longfellow Square. First up is singer-songwriter Maia Sharp...

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •

Monday, April 29, 2013 at 12:30 pm

The Universal Notebook: It's nobody's fault but our own

As America attempts to come to terms with health-care reform, the national debt, immigration reform, climate change and the epidemic of gun violence, the fault lines that threaten a more perfect union are becoming pretty darn obvious. They run along cultural divides, geographic borders, philosoph...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •

Monday, April 29, 2013 at 11:10 am

The View From Away: An urge for revenge in the land of the loonie

My coworkers on this TV show, who are almost exclusively Canadian, have been friendly and welcoming. So have the other people I have run across in Toronto, for the most part. One exception occurred at a suburban movie theater, where a woman wheeled on me and said I was standing too close to her i...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •

Monday, April 29, 2013 at 10:50 am

Forecaster Forum: Portland hotel plan is an attack on a people's park

The argument over the fate of Congress Square Plaza has brought a fusillade of insults aimed at that small, but important piece of public property and the people who use it. Developers want to take almost three quarters of the public space at the corner of High and Congress streets to buil...

Marian McCue • Opinion •

Monday, April 29, 2013 at 9:10 am

'Events center' latest proposal for Portland's Congress Square Plaza

PORTLAND — After several attempts to determine the space's fate – and as renovations continue on the neighboring Eastland Park Hotel – a City Council committee is scheduled again Wednesday to take up the future of Congress Square Plaza. The plaza was to be the s...

William Hall • News •

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 1:30 pm

Portland's East Bayside on a roll: Bagel shop, others see growing appeal

PORTLAND — Sandwiched between the heights of Munjoy Hill and potentially lofty towers of the proposed Midtown development in Bayside, the East Bayside neighborhood is seeing a small but steady influx of new residents and businesses. One of the newest is Union Bagel Co., which is now ...

William Hall • News •

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 12:40 pm