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News in South Portland

Fort Preble cleanup, tour set for Saturday in South Portland

SOUTH PORTLAND — Come for the cleanup and stay for the tour during the annual spring cleaning from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at historic Fort Preble. Volunteers, including staff and students from Southern Maine Community College, will make light repairs and clean the 204-year...

News •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 12:50 pm

Portland business brings composting to the masses

PORTLAND — Tyler Frank believes garbage bags may someday be obsolete. The Vesper Street resident is one of the founders of Garbage to Garden, a community-based curbside composting service that was launche...

William Hall • News •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 11:00 am

Youth Court in Portland, Yarmouth aims to repair wrongs, not punish kids

YARMOUTH — A program in Maine is helping first-time juvenile offenders avoid the traditional justice system and repair any harm they've done to the community. The program, called Youth Court, is appearing around the country in an effort to provide what is known as "restorative" ...

Amber Cronin • News •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 8:10 am

Community Calendar: May 1

Greater Portland Benefits Friday 5/3 Achieve a Vision Beyond Your Sight, 7 p.m., Hannaford Lecture Hall, 88 Bedford St., Portland, 475-7148, $10 suggested donation. Saturday 5/4

Community •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

People and Business

Recognition The Associated General Contractors of America awarded Freeport-based CPM Constructors with a 2013 Build America Award for new municipal and utility construction at AGC’s 94th annual convention March 7 in Palm Springs, Calif. CPM won for its construction o...

Community •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Arts Calendar, May 1-14

Greater Portland Books & Authors Wednesday 5/1 William Barry, author of "Maine: The Wilder Half of New England," 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700, free.

Lifestyle •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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

Letter: Keep South Portland parks alcohol-free

On Dec. 6, 1933, the day after Prohibition ended, my grandfather opened the first post-Prohibition bar in South Portland. In the ensuing 80 years, the data from the city clerk’s office shows that there are now over 80 establishments within the city where alcohol can be bought, or bought and...

• Opinion •
Monday, April 29, 2013 at 12:10 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
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