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  • Portland school renovation plan now up to councilors, voters

    PORTLAND — The City Council and voters must ultimately approve after the School Board last week OK'd a $70 million renovation plan for five elementary schools. The board's plan highlights the School Department's facilities needs, with many aging buildings in serious need of repair or...

    Will Graff • News •
    Monday, June 17, 2013 at 4:10 pm

  • Portland Adult Education needs new home after 27 years in ‘temporary’ spot

    PORTLAND — Portland Adult Education moved its academic classes into a former elementary school building on Douglass Circle in what was intended to be a temporary home. Nearly 27 years ago. Now the public program, which annually serves approximately 2...

    Seth Koenig, Bangor Daily News • News •
    Monday, June 17, 2013 at 3:50 pm
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  • Brunswick Planning Board OKs design of Maine Street Station inn

    BRUNSWICK — The Planning Board Tuesday unanimously approved the design and landscaping plan for a 60-room inn included in the $23 million Maine Street Station development. JHR Development, which considers the inn the centerpiece of the project, had originally proposed an 80-room ...

    Steve Mistler • News •
    Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 11:30 am

  • Back-seat drivers get their day at Topsham Fair

    TOPSHAM — You may loathe backseat drivers, but they come in quite handy at the Topsham Fair, where the Back Seat Drivers Contest was among the events that returned to the fair in its 155th year. Participants had to drive a golf cart around a course as fast as they could, running ove...

    Alex Lear • News •
    Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 11:00 am

  • Topsham police get OK to use Tasers

    TOPSHAM — The holsters of Topsham Police Department officers will soon be equipped with Tasers. The department is purchasing three Tasers and will be reimbursed by a nearly $4,200 grant from the Maine Department of Public Safety. The money, which comes through the A...

    Alex Lear • News •
    Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 10:50 am

  • Options for former Shaw's building in Falmouth may include medical offices

    FALMOUTH — Town councilors said property manager Tom Churchill told the Community Development Committee Aug. 4 that a medical facility is eyeing the former Shaw's building in the Falmouth Shopping Center on Route 1. But this week, Churchill backed away from his statement, which w... 2

    Peggy Roberts • News •
    Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 8:40 am

  • Exchange Street cobblestones unfriendly to skateboarders and drivers?

    PORTLAND — City officials say the cobblestone strips recently installed on lower Exchange Street are deterring skateboarders, but motorists are complaining the strips are not vehicle friendly. The city's Public Safety Committee on Tuesday heard from Public Services Director Mike...

    Kate Bucklin • News •
    Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 8:21 am

  • Portland planners, jetport officials on collision course over South Portland runway expansion

    PORTLAND — The Planning Board Tuesday rejected the advice of attorneys for the city and the Portland International Jetport and refused to back down on two conditions it included in its approval for jetport terminal expansion three months ago. The board also added an additional conditi... 2

    Kate Bucklin • News •
    Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 7:40 am

  • North Yarmouth selectmen, new administrator discuss goals

    NORTH YARMOUTH — Several months after Scott Tilton's contract was not renewed by the Board of Selectmen, new Administrative Assistant Marnie Diffin took to her new office Monday. Her first day in the town office was spent "trying to find the bottom of the desk," she said...

    Sarah Trent • News •
    Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 7:10 am

  • Hearings set on Cumberland home demolition, speed limits

    CUMBERLAND — The Town Council Monday scheduled public hearings for later this month on demolishing an abandoned Valley Road home and restoring lower speed limits on Bruce Hill, Orchard and Whitney roads. Both hearings were set for Aug. 24, at the regular meeting to be held at Town...

    Sarah Trent • News •
    Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 1:32 am
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