News in South Portland

Ted Hellier, award-winning South Portland volunteer and coach, succumbs to cancer

SOUTH PORTLAND — In a well-traveled and colorful life, three things stood out for Edward 'Ted" Hellier. "If he wasn't talking about his kids, it was lacrosse and solar," Susan Hellier said Tuesday, one day after her husband died of cancer at age 57. After an itinerant youth th...

David Harry • News •

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 3:40 pm

Arts Calendar: June 19 to July 2

Greater Portland Auditions/Calls for Art Monday 6/24 “Legally Blonde: The Musical,” open casting, 6:30 p.m., Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland, celeste.m.green@gmail.com. ...

• Lifestyle •

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Out & About: Music festivals in Portland, Brunswick, New Gloucester

Three music festivals are slated for summer’s opening week. The first is the three-day International Piano Festival. Under the aegis of the Portland Conservatory of Music, IPF runs this weekend in the Port City. That's followed a few days later by the Maine Festival of American Music...

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •

Monday, June 17, 2013 at 12:00 pm

The Universal Notebook: Is there hope for Obama?

Republicans tend to think that all Democrats love President Barack Obama and follow him blindly into the hopeful future. Not so. Especially not now. When then-Sen. Obama first announced that he was running for the presidency, my initial reaction was that he lacked the essential expe...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •

Monday, June 17, 2013 at 11:10 am

Abby's Road: The challenges of gift giving

I like to give gifts that can be measured calorically. In my book, you haven’t really said thank you, or Happy Birthday, or sorry about your appendix, if you haven’t handed over a bottle of wine, or a cake made of cookies, or the gluten-free brownies you doubt are at all enjoyable.

Abby Diaz • Opinion •

Monday, June 17, 2013 at 11:00 am

Letter: Beem ignores Maine's active seminaries

Edgar Allen Beem recently lamented the loss of Bangor Theological Seminary as another blow to the Christian community in the ongoing drive towards secularism in our country. The fact is that Bangor Theological joined the secular movement years ago and its decline and ultimate closure is in some p...

• Opinion •

Monday, June 17, 2013 at 10:10 am

Letter: Maine should mandate full-day kindergarten

I encourage readers to support funding LD 1143, "An Act to Provide Full Day Kindergarten Programs,” to mandate full-day kindergarten in all districts in Maine. Early childhood is an incredibly formative time for children both academically and socio-emotionally, and school systems nee...

• Opinion •

Monday, June 17, 2013 at 10:10 am

Southern Meetings: June 14-20

Cape Elizabeth Tues. 6/18 7 p.m. Planning Board TH Wed. 6/19 6:30 p.m. Community Services Advisory Committee CC Thur. 6/20 7 p.m. Fort Williams Advisory Committee PW Scarborough Tues. &n...

Community •

Friday, June 14, 2013

Gregory M. Bokor, 44: A kind and gentle soul

CAPE ELIZABETH — Gregory M. Bokor, 44, died peacefully June 2 at his Cape Elizabeth home after a valiant six-month struggle with pancreatic cancer. Born Oct. 8, 1968, in Washington, D.C., to George and Birgit Bokor, he earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Hood College in 1...

Obituaries •

Friday, June 14, 2013

Charles T. "Bud" Bruce, 90

SOUTH PORTLAND — Charles Theodore “Bud” Bruce, 90, died June 8, at the Cedars in Portland. He was born in Bangor on Dec. 14, 1922, the son of Harold and Irene Bruce. He graduated from Hampden Academy, Class of 1941. and attended the University of Maine for one...

Obituaries •

Friday, June 14, 2013