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News in Portland

Portland schools make $2M investment in technology

PORTLAND — A $2 million investment from the city has allowed the School Department to purchase 660 new computers for elementary school teachers and students across the district. Before the $2 million was allotted from the city's capital improvement plan, elementary schools were ...

Amber Cronin • News •
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 10:10 am

Portland schools offer counseling via video

PORTLAND — In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting, the School Department has created a video to help parents and students deal with the aftermath of the tragedy. In the video, Sophie Payson, a social worker in the district, explains the importance of listening to children...

News •
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 9:20 am

Challenge grant offers hope for Portland free clinic

PORTLAND — The Portland Community Free Clinic may keep its doors open a little longer, thanks to a $25,000 challenge grant from the Emanuel and Pauline A. Lerner Foundation. Mayor Michael Brennan and Eliot Cutler, chairman of the Portland-based philanthropy, announced the grant Dec. ...

William Hall • News •
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 8:10 am

Arts Calendar: Dec. 19-30

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Portland Children's Festival is seeking entries to the Young Filmmakers Contest, April 4-7, 2013, open to students in kindergarten through high school from Portland and surrounding comm...

Lifestyle •
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Community Calendar: Dec. 19-30

Greater Portland Benefits Greely Hockey Boosters, raffle fundraiser, drawing Jan.1 at Dudley Cup Tournament, tickets $10 each or 3 for $20, 831-9014. Bulletin Board

Community •
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

People and Business

Stepping out to end hunger

Community •
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Portland Meetings: Dec. 19-25

Wed.    12/19    4 p.m.    Island Advisory Committee    Ferry Terminal

Community •
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Portland School Notebook

Legal field diversity encouraged at local student conference

Community •
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Joseph M. Conlon, 75: Well-traveled wordsmith

ELLINGTON—Joseph M. Conlon, 75, died Oct. 28 in his home in Ellington, Conn., after a brief illness.   Born in Yonkers, N.Y., in 1937 to Joseph M. and Mary E. Conlon, Joseph Jr. was raised in Bergenfield, N.J., and Syracuse, N.Y., before moving to Milton, Mass.,...

Obituaries •
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Portland Police Beat: Dec. 19

Arrests 12/8 at 10 a.m. Akena W. Otunnu, 22, of Portland, was arrested on Danforth Street by Officer Daniel Townsend on a charge of criminal trespass. 12/8 at 10 a.m. Amy M. Cobb, 27, of Portland, was arrested on Cumberland Avenue by Officer Thoma...

Police Beat •
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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