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Maine Mall to host PATHS fashion show

PORTLAND — Fashion marketing students from Portland Arts and Technology High School will present their 2013 collection Sunday, March 24, at the Maine Mall in South Portland. The fashion show will feature fashions constructed from old prom gowns, hand-painted fabric and unusual m...

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Monday, March 18, 2013 at 10:50 am

Portland named best area for spring jobs

PORTLAND — The Portland region, including South Portland and Biddeford, will be the best metropolitan area in the nation for job growth this spring, Forbes magazine said last week. Forbes named the region No. 1, tied with

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Monday, March 18, 2013 at 10:40 am

Casco Bay ferries to scan tickets; car ferry dry-docked

PORTLAND — Casco Bay Lines will soon be electronically scanning its passenger tickets in a test to explore the use of ticket bar-codes to improve efficiency and data collection. On April 2, CBL will begin scanning all tickets except monthly and yearly passes. Unlike other tickets, th...

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Monday, March 18, 2013 at 10:40 am

Volunteer groups to clean up Portland parks, streets

PORTLAND — Three volunteer groups are getting together to clean up the city's parks, trails and neighborhoods on Saturday, April 6. Friends of the Eastern Promenade, the Munjoy Hill Neighborhood Organization and the West End Neighborhood Association are sponsoring the annual April St...

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Monday, March 18, 2013 at 10:40 am

Portland firefighters take on Hurricane Sandy 'disaster fatigue'

PORTLAND — Nearly five months after it made landfall, Hurricane Sandy continues to affect thousands of people still trying to rebuild their homes, communities and lives in hard-hit areas of New York and New Jersey. But Maine Helps, a coalition of Portland firefighters, businesses and...

William Hall • News •
Monday, March 18, 2013 at 10:30 am

Irish eyes smile in Portland

Dancers from the Stillson School of Irish Dance in Gorham step their way down Commercial Street in Portland on Sunday, March 17, during the annual St. Patrick's Day parade organized by the Maine Irish Heritage Center.

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Monday, March 18, 2013 at 9:50 am

The Universal Notebook: Don't tell Congress, but we're back

Even as a hopeless Congress and a misguided president drove the country off the fiscal cliff of totally unnecessary sequestration tax hikes and spending cuts, the U.S. economy was ignoring their incompetence and rebounding very nicely, thank you very much. The stock market greeted the bad ...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, March 18, 2013 at 9:20 am

Superintendent's Notebook: Proposed Portland school budget reflects community values

In years past, Portland residents have shown time and again that they value public education by providing resources to support our schools. That steadfast support is particularly noteworthy in a city where less than 13 percent of households have school-age children. Portland residents reco...

Emmanuel Caulk • Opinion •
Monday, March 18, 2013 at 9:00 am

Letter: Commercial St. should be Portland's top priority

Unlike Edgar Allen Beem ("High and State, it's a 2-way street"), I walk a lot all over the Portland peninsula.

• Opinion •
Monday, March 18, 2013 at 8:20 am

Shipyard Brewing to pay Portland $300K for sewer undercharges

PORTLAND — A state arbitrator awarded the city nearly $300,000 Friday to settle a dispute with Shipyard Brewing Co. over unpaid sewer charges. The binding decision ends a four-month process in which the city and...

William Hall • News •
Friday, March 15, 2013 at 2:50 pm
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