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Portland School Notebook

Three Maine schools nominated for national distinction AUGUSTA—The Maine Department of Education nominated three schools to be 2013 National Blue Ribbon Schools: Longfellow Elementary School in Portland, Williams-Cone Elementary School in Topsham and Yarmouth El...

Community •
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Portland Police Beat: Dec. 12

Arrests 12/2 at 12 a.m. Kevin A. Maguire, 48, of Portland, was arrested on Oxford Street by Officer Thomas Reagan on an outstanding warrant from another agency. 12/2 at 8 a.m. Kirk Carlson, 48, of Old Orchard Beach, was arrested on Congress Street...

Police Beat •
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Lillian Keating Peterson, 94

PORTLAND—Lillian Keating Peterson, 94, died Dec. 3 at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice in Scarborough, surrounded by her family.

Obituaries •
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Arts Calendar: Dec. 12-23

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 11, 2012

Portland launches technology business park

PORTLAND — Workers have broken ground on Portland Technology Park, a planned 26-acre site off Rand Road that would house offices and research facilities for the region's growing life-sciences industry. The first phrase of construction includes installation of utilities and building t...

William Hall • News •
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 3:30 pm

Film festival seeks student entries

PORTLAND — The Portland Children's Film Festival is looking for submissions for the Young Film Makers Contest that takes place in conjunction with the festival April 4-7, 2013. The contest is open to students from kindergarten through high school from Portland and surrounding co...

News •
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 3:10 pm

Longfellow School gets Blue Ribbon nod

PORTLAND — Longfellow Elementary School is one of three schools in Maine to be nominated by the state Department of Education as a 2013 National Blue Ribbon School. The National Blue Ribbon School program is an honor bestowed by the U.S. Department of Education to recognize publ...

News •
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 3:00 pm

Out & About: Monster and magician top holiday fare

Holiday A&E fare takes some unusual forms this week. Most intriguing is an original play, “The Legend of the Golem,” written by longtime Portland theater activist Michael Levine. The Golem is a benevolent monster-like creature who saved thousands of Jews in 16th-century Eur...

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 2:30 pm

Special delivery

The Wreaths Across America convoy of trucks headed to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia passes under the Stars and Stripes as it arrives at Cheverus High School in Portland on Sunday evening, where hundreds of people attended a ceremony in the school gym to welcome and bless the wreaths. Th...

News •
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 2:00 pm

The Universal Notebook: Welcome to Redneck Nation

Does anyone seriously doubt that race played a major role in the past election? Of course it did. But, despite how pronounced the racial divisions were among voters, the elements of racism for the most part remain subtle and insidious rather than blatant and obvious. To begin with, ...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, December 10, 2012 at 12:20 pm
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