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News in South Portland

Agriculture secretary promotes healthy diet, healthy defense

PORTLAND — The U.S. must address child obesity and hunger not only for the economic and educational prosperity of future generation, the nation's agriculture secretary said last week, but also for national security. Secretary Tom Vilsack spoke at Maine Medical Center and the U.S. Coa...

Dylan Martin • News •
Monday, March 18, 2013 at 3:40 pm

Out & About: 'Time Stands Still' is taut, powerful

Spring arrives this week with a wide variety of choices in the performing arts. My “must-see” pick for the week is “Time Stands Still,” a taut, powerful drama by Donald Margulies. It was a hit on Broadway and Los Angeles, and is proving equally popular at The Public Theatr...

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
Monday, March 18, 2013 at 2:20 pm

The View From Away: Canada, where 'from Away' really means something

I spent a week in Toronto breaking stories for the series I am working on. “Breaking stories” is one of those confusing terms in TV. When you have a solid path, the story is fully broken, a good thing. If it falls on its face when the actors get a hold of it, the network says the stor...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, March 18, 2013 at 11:40 am

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...

News •
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

News •
Monday, March 18, 2013 at 10:40 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

Edith 'Betty' Kennedy, 94

SOUTH PORTLAND — Edith "Betty" Kennedy, 94, of South Portland, died Sunday at Mercy Hospital. She was born in South Portland Jan. 12, 1919, a daughter of Patrick L. Halloran and Alice E. Halloran. She grew up in Portland and graduated from Deering High School in 1936. She a...

Obituaries •
Friday, March 15, 2013

Southern Meetings: March 15-21

Cape Elizabeth Tues.  3/19  6:30 p.m.  School Board Workshop  HS Library Tues.  3/19  7 p.m.  Planning Board  TH Wed.  3/20  7 p.m.  Town Council Finance Committee  TH Thur.  3/21  ...

Community •
Friday, March 15, 2013

Southern School Notebook

South Portland High Jazz Band earns awards at Berklee festival The South Portland High School Jazz Band received several awards March 2 at the 45th Annual High School Jazz Festival at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Under the direction of Craig Skeffington, the ba...

Community •
Friday, March 15, 2013

Henry A. 'Bud' Griffin Jr., 91: A kind and happy man

SOUTH PORTLAND — Henry A. "Bud" Griffin Jr., 91, of South Portland, died peacefully with his family by his side Feb. 23 after a brief illness. He was born the son of Henry A. Griffin Sr. and Isabelle E. Griffin Aug. 3, 1921, in their cottage on Willard Beach in South P...

Obituaries •
Friday, March 15, 2013
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